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. The event brought together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and research staff for a series of activities designed to bridge the gap between academic training and industry practice.…

Congratulations to Roy Wilkes, a Statistics major, on being awarded the Mid-Term Foundation Fellowship at UGA and named a Stamps Scholar by the Stamps Scholars Program! His Mid-Term Foundation Fellowship provides four semester stipends from fall 2026 through spring 2028. As a Stamps Scholar, Roy joins a national community with special programming and opportunities, supported through the partnership between the Stamps Scholars Program and leading…

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Rongjie Liu for being awarded an Interdisciplinary Seed Grant from the UGA Institute of Artificial Intelligence.    Along with collaborators Chao Huang from the UGA College of Public Health and Tianming Liu from the UGA School of Computing, RJ received funding for a project entitled,  AI-driven multimodal biomarker discovery and reasoning in depression and related mental health disorders.…

Congratulations to Sloka Sudhin on being selected for the Presidential Award of Excellence—one of the University of Georgia’s most distinguished honors for undergraduate students!   The Presidential Award of Excellence is awarded to undergraduate students in their final year of study who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, strong extracurricular involvement, and/or service  to and engagement within their respective…

Please join us in congratulating: Dr. Lynne Seymour on her promotion to Professor                 Dr. Rongjie Liu on her promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure                 Congratulations, you two! You both make UGA Statistics proud!

The Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia (UGA) invites applications for the position of Lecturer, starting August 1, 2026. This is a 9-month full time non-tenure-track faculty position with a career ladder. The person in this position is expected to teach a variety of undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses spanning a range of topics in statistics and data science. The person hired is expected to be engaged in the…

The Department wishes to congratulation Dr. Ping Ma on the occasion of the announcement of his renewal as UGA Distinguished Research Professor (DRP), effective on July 1, 2026.    Dr. Ma was first named DRP in 2021 based upon his stellar record of innovative methodological accomplishments in statistics, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), and bioinformatics, as well as an outstanding record of interdisciplinary…

Georgia Statistics Day 2025 brought undergraduates, graduates, and PhD students from across Georgia and even further into the Southeast to Athens. Of the 52 attendees and 8 award winners, 3 of UGA Statistics' own students were recognized for their outstanding contributions during the poster session. Undergraduates Deeya Datta and Sloka Sudhin and Graduate Student Jiazhang Cai were given GSD 2025's Best Student Poster Awards. Jiazhang presented "…

On Friday, January 30, graduate student Haoran Lu was awarded for his poster at the Artificial Intelligence in Medical and Health Care Systems Workshop, held in Atlanta at Georgia Tech. Congratulations, Haoran! The Department of Statistics is proud!

The Master of Science in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) program at the University of Georgia has established its inaugural External Advisory Board, a strategic initiative designed to strengthen connections between academic training and the rapidly evolving practice of data science. The MS in Applied Data Science program, housed within the Department of Statistics in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, established the Advisory Board to…