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Department of Statistics Featured in 2016 August Edition of the Innovation Gateway Newsletter!

Dr. Jennifer Kaplan and Department of Statistics PhD Student, Kristen Roland were featured in the August 2016 edition of the Innovation Gateway Newsletter. This monthly e-newsletter was started in 2015 to share the latest news from UGA's Innovation Gateway and to highlight faculty participating in UGA's mission to move new discoveries into the marketplace. Way to go Dr. Kaplan and Kristen on promoting the Department of Statistics!   You can…


A Discussion With 1996 ASA President, Lynne Billard

Please read an exciting discussion with 1996 ASA President, Lynne Billard, which appeared in the July 2016 issue of AMSTAT News. Congratulations, Lynne! 


Best Student Awards

Congratulations to all our students this year on their excellent acheivments within the department! Andrew Mullins was selected as the best MS Student, Chul Moon and Xinliang Zhang tied for the best beginning PhD student, and Fei Liu was selected as best Senior Student. We are so incredibly proud of all our winners. Congratulations again! 


Congratulations to the Winners of our Outstanding TA Awards!

Congratulations to our four statistics students who won the Outstanding TA Award. Alexei Ionan, Arunava Samaddar, Vineet Vora, and Chuck Wang all go above and beyond the duties of a TA to help and encourage all the students who they come in contact with. This is a University award, given to students who are in compliance with the University TA Policy and who are amont the best 10% of TAs at The University of Georgia. Congratulations again to…


Congratulations UGA Capital One Team!

Statistics students Xianyan Chen, Xiaodong Jiang, Jerry Shi, and Yang Song were one of the five finalist teams in teh Capital One Contest. The team members, along with advisor, Jaxk Reeves, were invited to Capital One headquarters from April 20-22, 2016. Here, they presented their analysis and were named first place winners in the competition! Congratulations to these students and Dr. Jaxk Reeves for this great achievemnet! 

Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
UGA Statistics Alum, Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Please join us in congratulating UGA Statistics' 2006 PhD graduate, Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay!  As a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Bandyopadhyay has recently been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is a tremendous accomplishment, and we are proud that the UGA Department of Statistics had some small role in his development as a…

Sloka Sudhin
Congratulations to Sloka Sudhin, Winner of a Goldwater Scholarship!

Please join us in congratulating our outstanding undergraduate student Sloka Sudhin, a junior from Marietta, Georgia double-majoring in data science and applied mathematics.    Sloka is a Foundation Fellow, a Stamps Scholar, recipient of the Hollingsworth Award from the UGA Department of Mathematics, and is now a Goldwater Scholarship winner. The Goldwater Scholarship is the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the…

Dr. Ishwar Basawa
Dr. Ishwar Basawa (July 30, 1939 - March 29, 2025)

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Ishwar Basawa, who retired from the UGA Department of Statistics in 2010. Professor Basawa was a highly valued member of our department, recognized for his outstanding contributions to teaching, research, mentorship, and leadership. He served as Interim Department Head from 2000 to 2003, guiding the department through a challenging transition as it sought new leadership.…

Dr. Rongie Liu
Congratulations to Dr. Rongjie Liu, Recipient of UGA Franklin College's Seed Grant

Dr. Rongjie Liu's team was recently awarded $10,000 by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences under its Rapid Interdisciplinary Proposals (RIP) Program.  Dr. Liu's proposal, entitled Advancing Brain Connectome: Large Language Models for Interpreting and Inferring Causality in PTSD, brings together a team with a strong background in statistical modeling and data analysis. In addition to Dr. Liu, an expert in causal inference,…

Luyang Fang
Congratulations Luyang Fang, Winner of the 2025 James L. Carmon Scholarship!

Luyang Fang, Ph.D. candidate in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Statistics, develops innovative machine learning algorithms that improve the efficiency and reliability of large language models. Under the mentorship of professors Ping Ma and Wenxuan Zhong, she has pioneered Bayesian Knowledge Distillation (BKD), an advanced method for compressing AI models while quantifying uncertainty in their predictions—…
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