The Department of Statistics Graduate Student Awards Day took place on April 16, featuring presentations of research by two of our PhD students and the announcements of several departmental and university awards. Mr. Vishal Routh presented some of his PhD research on the topic of Extremes as a Causal Compass: The Extremal Minimum Ratio Estimator, and Mr. Arghadeep Basu presented his work on Credible Rank Distributions for Bayesian Unit-Level Small Area Estimation. 

UGA Statistics Assistant Professor, Dr.  RJ Liu, was recently informed that her proposal, AI-Driven Multimodal Feature Engineering for Personalized Biomedical System Design, has been funded under the NSF's highly prestigious CAREER grant program. The project will span five years with a total award amount of $546,167. This is a fantastic achievement that recognizes and invests in Dr.

Angelina Garcia, a junior from Bethlehem, GA working on her BS in Statistics and MS in Statistics in the UGA Double Dawg program, has been selected to participate in the McNair Scholars Program. The goal of the McNair Scholars Program is to increase the number of underrepresented students in doctoral programs. In Summer 2026, Angelina will be working with Department of Statistics faculty members Dr. Gauri Datta and Dr.

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The Department of Statistics Convocation event will be split into separate ceremonies for undergraduates and graduate students. Please read the information below carefully and be on the lookout for emails regarding the availability of guest tickets.

Please join us from 5:30pm to 7:00pm on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 via Zoom for this special event.

We invite students, faculty and current SCC staff to join us for a 90-minute conversation with three former SCC consultants and Statistics PhD graduates,

• Dr. Huimin Hu

  Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo

  

The Master of Science in Applied Data Science program at the University of Georgia brought together its inaugural advisory board on March 31, gathering industry leaders and UGA alumni in Athens for a day of conversation, collaboration, and strategic visioning for the program’s future.

The University of Georgia Department of Statistics hosted its annual Industry Day on March 19, welcoming Dr. Ryan Lekivetz, Director of Advanced Analytics R&D at JMP, for a full day of discussions, student meetings, and a departmental colloquium.