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We are excited to announce that the Statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Spring quarter. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate students…
Congratulations to UW Statistics Ph.D. students, Jillian Fisher and Ronak Mehta for each earning an Honorable Mention award for the 2023 ASA Student Paper Award competition. The title of Jillian’s…
Tyler McCormick, Associate Professor of Statistics and Sociology, will serve as a speaker/panelist for the NISS Ingram Olkin Forum: Statistical Methods for Combatting Human Trafficking, Wednesday,…
We are delighted to announce the Winter 2023 Edition of our undergraduate newsletter, "Student's T time”, edited by Professor Ranjini Grove and Joia Zhang, with help from the UW Statistics &…
Chair’s LetterDear Friends of UW Statistics,Welcome to 2023! I hope that you enjoyed the (icy!) holidays with your family and friends! [Read more here]Diversity, equity and inclusion highlights:…
Dear Friends of UW Statistics,
Welcome to 2023! I hope that you enjoyed the (icy!) holidays with your family and friends! I am writing once more to let you know about what has been going on in our…
You’ve probably already noticed our newest staff member, Veronica Bae, who joined our department in early October 2022. Veronica is our new Administrative Assistant 3 and is located in the main…
Each year in the fall, the Department of Statistics awards talented graduate students for the Z.W. Birnbaum award and the Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award. The Z.W. Birnbaum award recognizes a PhD…
We are excited to announce that the Statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Winter quarter. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate students…
An interactive article published in November 2022 in the New York Times, Extreme Heat Will Change Us, discussed how half the world could soon face dangerous heat due to climate change, based on the…
We invite you to join us for a virtual conversation and Q&A with current Statistics Ph.D. students from the Departments of Statistics at the University of Washington, University of California,…
We are delighted to announce the Fall 2022 Edition of our undergraduate newsletter, "Student's T time”, edited by Professor Ranjini Grove and Joia Zhang, with help from the UW Statistics &…
This summer, Prof. Zaid Harchaoui and Prof. Abel Rodriguez served as instructors in the AI4ALL program hosted by the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT) and co-sponsored by the Institute…
The Department of Statistics is pleased to welcome Prince Allotey, Emanuela Furfaro, and Armeen Taeb in their new positions!Prince Allotey joined our department as an Assistant Teaching Professor…
The Department of Statistics at the University of Washington is strongly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. To this end, during the academic year 2022-2023 we are launching the pre-…
Congratulations to Zaid Harchaoui who received a promotion to Full Professor, effective September 16, 2022!
Dr. Zaid Harchaoui is a core faculty member in the Department of Statistics. He is also an…
We are proud to announce the formation of the Pacific Alliance for Low Income Inclusion in Statistics and Data Science (PALiISaDS), a new partnership supported by a $5,000,000 investment from the…
We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Autumn quarter. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate students…
We are pleased to announce that Zaid Harchaoui, Associate Professor of Statistics, has received grant funding support from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health…
We are proud to announce that Daniela Witten, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, Dorothy Gilford endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics, has received the prestigious 2022 President’s Award…
Ranjini Grove, Associate Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Statistics, has had a busy summer teaching introductory statistics/data science to high school…
We are pleased to announce that the King Baudouin Foundation has selected Thomas Richardson to be a co-recipient of the inaugural Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics. The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is…
From July 6th through July 9th, undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in the department of statistics helped run a summer camp for high schoolers in collaboration with the University…
We are proud to announce that Yen-Chi Chen, Assistant Professor of Statistics, has been bestowed the Gottfried E. Noether Early Career Scholar award from the American Statistical Association (ASA).…
Congratulations to Ema Perkovic, Fang Han, and Alex Luedtke on receiving grant funding from the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at National Science Foundation (NSF)!Ema Perkovic, Assistant…
We are proud to announce that Anna Neufeld, current UW Statistics Ph.D. student, is one of the four recipients of the 2022 Best Student Paper Award competition for her paper entitled “Inference after…
Chair’s LetterDear Friends of UW Statistics,Time flies, and another academic year comes to a close! [Read more here]People highlights
Daniela Witten elected as IMS Fellow
Abel Rodriguez and…
We are pleased to announce that the International Biometric Society (IBS) will name Dr. Elizabeth Thompson an Honorary Life Member. Honorary Life Members have all the rights and privileges of a…
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Elena Erosheva has been appointed as the Director of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CS&SS). She will begin her five-year term starting on…
A number of domain applications of data science, machine learning, mathematical optimization, control theory, have underscored the importance of the assumptions on the data generating mechanisms,…
Dear Friends of UW Statistics,Time flies, and another academic year comes to a close! It has been again a year full of challenges, but also full of optimism as we slowly resume more in-person…
We are pleased to announce that Dante Ramirez has been awarded the Howard and Imogene Burton Memorial Scholarship for the 2022-2023 academic year. This scholarship is designed to provide financial…
We are proud to announce that Yuqing (Queenie) Liu is this year’s recipient of the Bernbaum Family Endowed Scholarship. This award recognizes a talented undergraduate student based on their academic…
Satellite image by Tim Warchocki from TTI, Inc.
Diverse and inclusive teams are critical for maintaining U.S. leadership in space exploration. The National Academies will release a new report,…
We are pleased to announce that two of our alumni, Veronica Berrocal and Susan Shortreed, have been elected as fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA). You can see the list of fellows…
We are pleased to announce that Alexander Giessing, UW Acting Assistant Professor of the Department of Statistics, has been elected as the Treasurer of the Nonparametric Statistics Section of the…
We are delighted to announce the 2022 Spring Edition of our undergraduate newsletter, "Student's T time”, edited by Professor Ranjini Grove, with help from the UW Statistics & Probability…
We are pleased to announce that Abel Rodriguez, Professor of Statistics, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).ASA Fellows are named for their outstanding…
A mass cremation in New Delhi during a devastating Covid surge in April 2021. Photographed by Atul Loke from The New York Times.Updated June 3, 2022Jon Wakefield, Professor of Statistics and…
We are proud to announce that Professor Daniela Witten has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). The IMS Fellowship honors the outstanding research and…
We are pleased to announce that Professor Adrian Raftery has received the Mindel C. Sheps Award at the Population Association of America (PAA)’s 2022 Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia on April…
The UW department of Statistics is very proud to announce that our department has received a generous donation from Brent Smith and Jill Smith, both proud UW alumni, to establish the Brent and Jill…
We are proud to announce that the Campion (President’s Invited) Lecture will be given by Professor Adrian Raftery at the Royal Statistical Society’s 2022 International Conference in Aberdeen, United…
We are pleased to announce that Peter Gao, current UW Statistics Ph.D. student, is one of the five recipients of the 2022 ASA Student Paper Award competition for his paper entitled "Smoothed Model-…
The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundations (NSF) has awarded Yen-Chi Chen, Assistant Professor of Statistics, a CAREER award for his research on “Inference with…
Jon Wakefield, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, has been featured in the January 20, 2022 issue of Nature, in the article titled, “The Effort to Count the Pandemic’s Global Death Toll”. The…
Dear Friends of UW Statistics,
Welcome to 2022! I wish that you are all safe and healthy!
Much has happened since my last letter in summer. For one, UW has returned to in-person activities.…
We are delighted to announce the Winter 2022 Edition of our undergraduate newsletter, "Student's T time”, edited by Professor Ranjini Grove, with help from the UW Statistics & Probability…
We are pleased to announce that Zaid Harchaoui, Associate Professor of Statistics, and his UW team received an Outstanding Paper Award at the NeurIPS conference in December 2021 for their paper on “…
Chair’s LetterDear Friends of UW Statistics,Welcome to 2022! I wish that you are all safe and healthy! [Read more here]
People highlights
Congratulate our newly promoted faculty!
Erosheva…
We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during winter quarter. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate students…
Each year in the fall, the Department of Statistics awards talented graduate students for the Z.W. Birnbaum award and the Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award. The Z.W. Birnbaum award recognizes a PhD…
We invite you to join us for a virtual conversation and Q&A with current Statistics Ph.D. students from the Departments of Statistics at the University of Washington, University of California,…
We are proud to announce that the University of Washington, Seattle has joined Math Alliance as a Partner Institution. This effort, which involves 12 programs on campus, was led by the Departments of…
Congratulations to Fang Han and Alex Luedtke, core faculty members in the Department of Statistics who received promotions to new appointments, effective September 16, 2021.
Fang Han
Promoted to…
We are delighted to announce the Fall 2021 Edition of our undergraduate newsletter, "Student's T time”, edited by Professor Ranjini Grove, with help from the UW Statistics & Probability…
The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundations (NSF) has awarded Zaid Harchaoui, Associate Professor of Statistics, and his interdisciplinary team $1.1million for…
We are delighted to announce Dr. Kristian Lum as the 2021 Blackwell Seminar Speaker. Her talk, “Closer Than They Appear: A Bayesian Perspective on Individual-Level Heterogeneity in Risk Assessment”…
We are delighted to announce that the UW Graduate School will be hosting alumni Amanda Cox (M.A., Statistics 2005) as part of their Public Lecture Series. Cox is the data editor of The New York Times…
The Department of Statistics at the University of Washington is strongly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. To this end, during the academic year 2021-2022 we are launching the pre-…
We are pleased to announce that former UW Statistics Ph.D. student and alumnus, Renato Assunção, is the 2020 winner of a prestigious award by the Associação Brasileira de Estatística (ABE – the…
We are pleased to announce that former UW Statistics Ph.D. student and alumna, Marloes Maathius, has been awarded the 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize. The name of the prize recognizes a historically…
Chair’s Letter
Dear Friends of Statistics,
I am writing as my first year as Department Chair comes to a close. Interacting with our community through a computer in my home office is not how I…
Congratulations Elena Erosheva, Marina Meila, and Yen-Chi Chen on receiving grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)!
The Division of Social and Economics Sciences (SES) at NSF has…
Dear Friends of UW Statistics,
I am writing as my first year as Department Chair comes to a close. Interacting with our community through a computer in my home office is not how I envisioned…
We are proud to announce that Daniela Witten, Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, Dorothy Gilford endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics, has been elected as a Council Member for the…
We are pleased to announce that Elena Erosheva, Professor of Statistics and Social Work, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
ASA Fellows are named for their…
We are pleased to announce that Fang Han, Assistant Professor of Statistics, and soon to be Associate Professor starting September 16, 2021, has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2021…
The Department of Statistics is pleased to welcome Carlos Cinelli, Armeen Taeb, and Alexander Giessing, and to congratulate Vincent Roulet in his new position!
Carlos Cinelli will be joining our…
We are delighted to announce the Spring Edition of our undergraduate newsletter, "Student's T time”, edited by Professor Ranjini Grove, with help from the UW Statistics & Probability Association…
On May 21st, 2021, the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium took place virtually. The symposium centers around undergraduates’ discovery and scholarship in the university’s research, teaching, and…
We are pleased to announce that undergraduate senior Jenna Gordon has been selected as one of this year's Husky 100. Jenna will be graduating with a double major in Statistics and Psychology and a…
We are proud to announce that Siyue (Celeste) Zeng is the first recipient of the Bernbaum Family Endowed Scholarship. This award recognizes a talented undergraduate student based on their academic…
Each year, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship is awarded to doctoral students in recognition of their academic excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and…
We our proud to announce that the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) has selected three of our alumni as their 2021 class of fellows:
Charles Geyer, Professor in the School of Statistics at…
A team based at the University of Washington has developed a model to help the United Nations identify local areas in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia where additional resources may be needed to…
The Department of Statistics is pleased congratulate David Marcano, Daniel Suen, and Hassan Nasif on their success with NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Both Marcano and Suen have…
We are saddened and horrified by the murder of eight people in Atlanta on Tuesday, six of whom were women of Asian descent. These murders are all the more troubling in light of the wave of anti-Asian…
The UW News highlights new research on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions led by Adrian Raftery, Professor in Statistics and Sociology, and Peiran Liu, former graduate student in Statistics…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has named Elena Erosheva, UW Professor of Statistics and Social Work, as a member of the National Academies Committee on Increasing…
Chair’s Letter
Dear Friends of Statistics,
As the new Department Chair and a new member of the UW family, I am delighted to share with you an update on our accomplishments over the last few months…
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has named Abel Rodriguez, UW Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics, as the Treasurer for the Council of Sections (COS) for 2021 and 2022. The…
Dear Friends of Statistics,
As the new Department Chair and a new member of the UW family, I am delighted to share with you an update on our accomplishments over the last few months, as well as my…
This has been another successful year for the students, faculty, and alumni in the Department of Statistics. We are proud to recognize their accomplishments for the year of 2020 and would like to…
Published: Thursday, August 20, 2020
Updated: Thursday, December 31, 2020
Faculty in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington are actively engaged in research related to COVID-19…
Each year in the fall, the Department of Statistics awards talented graduate students for the Z.W. Birnbaum award and the Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award. The Z.W. Birnbaum award recognizes the…
A collaboration of researchers from Emory University, the University of Washington, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Utah have shown potential for speeding up…
We are proud to announce that Daniela Witten, Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical…
We invite you to join us for a virtual conversation and Q&A with current Statistics Ph.D. students at the University of Washington (UW) on Monday, November 9, 2020 at 4:00 PM (PST).
We will be…
Elena Erosheva (UW Professor of Statistics and Social Work) and Sheridan Grant (UW Statistics Ph.D. student) have co-authored with Carole Lee (UW Professor of Philosophy) a Correspondence featured on…
Congratulations to Adrian Dobra, Emily Fox, and Sham Kakade, core faculty members in the Department of Statistics who received promotions to new appointments, effective September 16, 2020.
…
New University of Washington research analyzes global fertility trends. Photographed by Mustafa Omar/Unsplash.
The UW News highlights a study that Daphne Liu, a Ph.D. student in Statistics, and…
The National Science Foundation today announced a $12.5 million award to support the creation of the Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS), a multi-site research institute led by the…
Each year, Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) awards fellowships to a handful of talented incoming STEM Ph.D. students at University of Washington and Washington State University. ARCS…
With so much at stake in the November elections, the Department of Statistics and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) will for the first time offer a special topics course, the…
The Department of Statistics is pleased to congratulate Professors Michael Perlman, Werner Stuetzle, and Jon Wellner on their retirements from the University of Washington. They have each contributed…
Congratulations to Daniela Witten, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, and Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics for being selected to receive the American Statistical…
UW News has posted a story about a new guide that is intended to help officials nationwide make sense of different COVID-19 data sources when making public health decisions. Adrian Raftery, a UW…
The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that the College of Arts & Sciences honors Julie Zhang as Dean's medalist in the Natural Sciences for 2020.
Zhang recently graduated in the…
To our extended University of Washington Statistics Community,
These have been a challenging few months, for our department and for the country. We have watched as COVID-19 has transformed our…