Recent News

The Department of Statistics is pleased to welcome Anne Wagner, Ali Shojaie, and Zoraida Fernandez-Rico in their new positions!  Anne Wagner joined our department this summer as an…
Carlos Cinelli, Assistant Professor of Statistics, will give a virtual talk entitled “Sensitivity Analysis and Automation for Robust Causal Analysis in the Social Sciences”.  The talk will be…
The Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Washington are firmly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. To this end, during the academic year 2024-2025, we are…
Zaid Harchaoui, professor of Statistics in the College of Arts & Sciences and adjunct professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering in the College of Engineering,…
We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Autumn 2024. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate students of…
We are pleased to announce that Statistics Professor Adrian Dobra was selected as this year’s 2024 NISS Distinguished Alumni award winner. The announcement was made at the 2024 JSM (Portland), NISS…
We are pleased to announce that Carlos Cinelli, Assistant Professor of Statistics, has received grant funding support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal “Sensitivity Analysis…
The International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). has elected Professor Adrian Raftery as a Fellow. ISBA was founded in 1992 to promote the development and application of Bayesian analysis.…
The journal Demographic Research just published an interview (by Monica Alexander) with Statistics and Sociology Professor Adrian Raftery on the history of the Bayesian population projection…
Welcome to the recording of the 2024 Statistics Department Graduation Celebration! Photos Photos from the graduation ceremony can be found here. Note: The link requires UW NetID to…