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
Dr. Ting Zhang Appointed as Department Head Congratulations to Dr. Ting Zhang on his appointment as Head of the UGA Department of Statistics, effective August 1, 2026. Read more about Dr. Ting Zhang Appointed as Department Head
Dr. Prince Allotey Selected for the 2026-2027 Teaching Academy Early Career Fellows Program Congratulations to Dr. Prince Allotey for being selected to participate in the 2026-27 Early Career Fellows Program of the UGA Teaching Academy. The mission of this program is to promote excellence in classroom instruction by mentoring early-career faculty. Each summer, 15-20 early-career (1-3 years) faculty are selected as Teaching Academy Early Career Fellows (TAECF) for the upcoming academic year. Read more about Dr. Prince Allotey Selected for the 2026-2027 Teaching Academy Early Career Fellows Program
Georgia Statistics Day 2026 featuring Jianqing Fan More Information Coming Soon! Sat, 06/27/2026 - 10:26am Type of Event: GA Statistics Day Read more about Georgia Statistics Day 2026 featuring Jianqing Fan
UGA Statistics Industry Day 2026 - Featuring Shan Ba Lunch Lecture: From Classical DOE to Online Experimentation at Scale: Challenges, Lessons, and Opportunities Controlled experiments are widely regarded as the gold standard for establishing causal relationships and guiding decision-making. While the core principles of Design of Experiments (DOE) remain fundamental, applying them at the scale of modern online platforms introduces new challenges and opportunities. Thu, 06/18/2026 - 8:40am Type of Event: Industry Day Read more about UGA Statistics Industry Day 2026 - Featuring Shan Ba
Dr. Yuan Ke Joins JASA Editorial Board Dr. Yuan Ke has recently accepted a role as Associate Editor for the Theory and Methods section of Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA). JASA is the flagship journal of the American Statistics Association and one of the very top research publications in statistics and data science. Congratulations to Dr. Ke for being named to this prestigious position, which reflects his stature as one of the elite researchers in our discipline! Read more about Dr. Yuan Ke Joins JASA Editorial Board
Dr. Ting Zhang receives NSF Award for Collaborative Research on Changepoint Analysis Congratulations to Dr. Ting Zhang who was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the project entitled, Collaborative Research: Change Point Testing and Estimation with Irregular Signals. Read more about Dr. Ting Zhang receives NSF Award for Collaborative Research on Changepoint Analysis
Dr. Rongjie Liu Wins Sarah H. Moss Fellowship Congratulations to Dr. RJ Liu for receiving funding from the Sarah H. Moss Fellowship program! Read more about Dr. Rongjie Liu Wins Sarah H. Moss Fellowship
Data Science Symposium at UNSW Organized in Honor of Dr. Lynne Billard Congratulations to Dr. Lynne Billard in whose honor the AI Institute of the University of New South Wales (Australia) is organizing a data science symposium on the topic of Statistical Analysis of Distributional Data. Details of the event can be found in the flyer linked here Read more about Data Science Symposium at UNSW Organized in Honor of Dr. Lynne Billard
Forrest (Roy) Wilkes Receives a Summer 2026 CURO Research Award Forrest (Roy) Wilkes has been awarded a Summer 2026 CURO Research Award to pursue research in Bayesian Ranking and Optimization under the guidance of Dr. Abhyuday Mandal. His work focuses on developing statistical methods that improve the reliability of rankings derived from limited or noisy data by explicitly incorporating uncertainty through Bayesian modeling. In particular, he will construct a double stochastic rank matrix and develop an R package to implement these methods. Read more about Forrest (Roy) Wilkes Receives a Summer 2026 CURO Research Award
