Department of Statistics News Alumni News Alumni of the Department of Statistics at UGA are going places! Check here to see updates on your former classmates and friends. If you would like your update included in our Alumni News section, please complete the Alumni Update Form. Departmental News Read more about Department of Statistics News
Colloquium Series - Inkoo Lee Fri, 09/11/2026 - 1:09pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Colloquium Series - Inkoo Lee
Colloquium Series - Qin Lu Fri, 09/11/2026 - 1:07pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Colloquium Series - Qin Lu
Colloquium Series - Yuke (Andrew) Wang Fri, 09/11/2026 - 1:06pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Colloquium Series - Yuke (Andrew) Wang
Colloquium Series - Ruoxuan Xiong Fri, 09/11/2026 - 1:05pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Colloquium Series - Ruoxuan Xiong
Colloquium Series - Yu Wang Fri, 09/11/2026 - 1:03pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Colloquium Series - Yu Wang
Colloquium Series - Guher Gorgun TItle: From Raw Responses to Statistical Inference: Preserving Data Integrity in Assessment Modeling Fri, 09/11/2026 - 1:01pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Colloquium Series - Guher Gorgun
Riddhimoy Ghosh Receives the Graduate School Doctoral Fellow Award Riddhimoy obtained a M.S. degree in Data Science from the University of Nebraska Omaha with a GPA of 4.00/4.00, and he was a second-year Ph.D. student in Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) at the time he applied to our doctoral program (mainly because of a pending closure of the department at UNL). In collaboration with his advisor, Riddhimoy co-authored the R package ABCel, which implements a novel entropy-based Approximate Bayesian Computation framework for inference under intractable likelihoods. Read more about Riddhimoy Ghosh Receives the Graduate School Doctoral Fellow Award
Yutong Hu Receives the Presidential Graduate Fellow Award Receiving the most prestigious fellowship award available from UGA for incoming doctoral students, Yutong completed her B.S. in Data Science and Technology (Extended Major in Artificial Intelligence) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Read more about Yutong Hu Receives the Presidential Graduate Fellow Award
Reunion at JSM 2026 Brings Together Students, Alumni, Former and Current Faculty The Department of Statistics hosted an Alumni Reunion Event at the recent 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston, Massachusetts. The event took place on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026 during the lunch hour at the Westin Boston Seaport District hotel, adjacent to the JSM venue. Over food and drinks, alumni of the department, former faculty members, current students, and a few guests mingled, reminisced about the department, shared news of former colleagues, and provided professional and personal updates. Read more about Reunion at JSM 2026 Brings Together Students, Alumni, Former and Current Faculty
