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!  

Please read an exciting discussion with 1996 ASA President, Lynne Billard, which appeared in the July 2016 issue of AMSTAT News. Congratulations, Lynne! 

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 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 these four outstanding TAs! 

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! 

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.

On Thursday, May 7, join the UGA Statistics Department for our Spring Convocation, sending our students off on the next big step of their lives.

Preceding the convocation at 12:00pm, we will have a small "pre-ception" in the Coca Cola Lounge in Sanford Hall.

Students are guaranteed up to 3 guest tickets for the convocation ceremony, with more potentially available 

If you have any further questions, please feel free to call the UGA Statistics front office at 706-542-5680 between 8:00am - 4:00pm, Monday through Friday.

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.

Jeffrey S. Rosenthal is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto and a leading expert in probability theory and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a recipient of the COPSS Presidents’ Award, one of the highest honors in the statistical sciences. His other awards include the CRM–SSC Prize and the SSC Gold Medal. He is also widely recognized for his outstanding teaching and public outreach, including popular books and lectures on probability and statistics.