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Congratulations to Drs. Ting Zhang and Ruizhi Zhang!

Please join us in congratulating the following faculty members: Ting Zhang on his promotion to Professor Ruizhi Zhang on his promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure Congratulations to you both! Your hard work and dedication to the UGA Department of Statistics are greatly appreciated!

Graduation Cap Toss
UGA Statistics Graduation Ceremony and Reception for Spring 2025

On May 8, 2025 at 12:00pm, we’ll be sending our Statistics and Data Science majors into the world to begin the next chapter of their lives. But before the graduation ceremony, please join us in the Larry Walker Room (Dean Rusk Hall) between 10:30 and 11:30am for socializing and refreshments.   Since the reception will have a limited capacity, please fill out this form to let us know how many guests you would like to bring along. If you…

2024 Summer Camp
UGA Statistics 2024 High School Summer Camp

The Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia partnered with Data Scientists at Wells Fargo to offer a Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Camp from July 15 - 19, 2024 (8am to 5pm). This was held in-person at the University of Georgia Campus. Twenty high school students, selected mostly from across the Athens/Atlanta metro area, participated in this camp. This week-long, hands-on learning program was a fun and creative way to…


Three Statistics Faculty Nominated for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Abhyuday Mandal, Maduranga Dassanayake, and Sarangan Balasubramaniam were were nominated this year by their students for the Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. These nominations are strong evidence that these faculty members are truly engaging their students in the classroom.  Thank you, Abhyuday, Maduranga, and Sarangan for the great job you do advancing the instructional mission of the Department!

Dr. Lynne Seymour
Dr. Lynne Seymour Receives 2025 Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award

This award for excellence in teaching annually honors outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high quality instruction. Congratulations, Lynne!

Shushan Wu
Shushan Wu Honored With 2025 ASA Student Paper Award

UGA Statistics PhD student, Shushan Wu, has been honored as one of the award recipients of the 2025 Student Paper Competition in the area of Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics, sponsored by the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics. Shushan was recognized for her lead-authored paper, Fisher Contrastive Learning: A Robust Solution to the Feature Suppression Effect. For more information about the…

Brooks Hall
UGA Statistics 2024 Virtual Open House

On Tuesday, December 3, we held our Virtual Open House for Prospective Graduate Students via Zoom. If you were unable to attend, but would like to gather information and view the session for yourself, please click here.

Brooks Hall and SCC Door
Recent News of the SCC

The Department’s Newsletter has been on hiatus for a while, so let's catch you up on the SCC news. For those of you who don’t know, the “SCC” is the UGA Statistical Consulting Center. The Center, which I direct, is a unit of the Department of Statistics, but also a Core Facility of the UGA Office of Research. That means we serve the university’s research mission by providing statistical support to students, staff, and faculty investigators…

Deeya Datta receiving her award
Deeya Datta wins AISC2024 and GSD2024 Award

Deeya Datta wins AISC2024 and GSD2024 Award Data Science major Sloka Sudhin and Statistics major Deeya Datta were finalists for the Undergraduate Presentation Award at the 2024 International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics. Deeya Datta earned the runner-up award. Congratulations to both Deeya and Sloka! Deeya also won the Best Undergraduate Student Poster award at the 2024 Georgia Statistics Day…

Dr Chowdhury
Congratulations to Monsur Chowdhury

The Department of Statistics is very pleased to congratulate Dr. Monsur Chowdhury, who was promoted to Senior Lecturer starting August 1, 2024. Congratulations, Dr. Chowdhury! 
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