Congratulations to UW Statistics Ph.D. student Mateus Piovezan Otto for winning the poster competition for his work on “Jacobi-type Methods for Blind Source Separation and Invariant Subspace Decomposition” at the recent SIAM Pacific Northwest Conference. 

Congratulations also goes to UW Statistics Ph.D. student Ronak Mehta who was selected (top 1% of the submissions) for an oral presentation for his work “A Generalization Theory for Zero-Shot Prediction” Mehta Paper, at the International Conference on Machine Learning, July 2025, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 

Well done Mateus and Ronak!