Newsletter

Chair’s Letter

Dear 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:

• UW Statistics to co-lead NSF-funded Pacific Alliance for Low Income Inclusion in Statistics and Data Science
• Graduate students offer Pre-Application Review Service (PARS) with a focus on students from underrepresented groups in Statistics
• Ranjini Grove participates as instructor and mentor in the UW Upward Bound program organized by the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity
• Graduate students help organize Gear-Up summer program for high school students from low-income communities in South Seattle
• Zaid Harchaoui and Abel Rodriguez participate as instructor in AI4ALL summer program, bringing a disability studies lens to interrogate bias and fairness in AI
• Ph.D. students host joint Virtual Graduate Student panel with UC Berkeley and University of Michigan to help demystify the application process for students from underrepresented background.
   

People highlights

• Welcome our new faculty!
• And also our new staff member, Veronica Bae!
• Zaid Harchaoui promoted to Full Professor
• Thomas Richardson co-recipient of inaugural Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics 
• Daniela Witten receives 2022 COPSS President’s Award
• Yen-Chi Chen receives Gottfried E. Noether Early Career Award from the American Statistical Association
• Elizabeth Thompson named Honorary Life Member of the International Biometric Society
• Ph.D. student Anna Neufeld wins 2022 WNAR Best Student Paper Award
• 2020-2021 Z.W. Birnbaum and Dorothy M. Gilford award winners!

Research highlights:

• Jon Wakefield featured in Perspectives Magazine
• Adrian Raftery featured in the New York Times
• Ema Perkovic, Fang Han, Alex Luedtke and Zaid Harchaoui receive federal grants to advance their research

Keep in touch!

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