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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! 


Congratulations to Drs. Lynne Seymour and Rongjie Liu!

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!


We are Hiring a Lecturer for Statistics

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…

Dr. Ping Ma
Congratulations to Dr. Ping Ma, UGA Distinguished Research Professor!

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…

Jiazhang, Sloka, and Deeya
Georgia Statistics Day 2025 UGA Poster Award Winners

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 "…

Haoran Lu
Congratulations to Haoran Lu!

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!
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