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.

We are pleased to have the Department of Statistics' capstone courses for our undergraduate majors in statistics and data science featured in Chronicles, the blog of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. 

These courses provide great opportunities for our students to synthesize and extend their methodological knowledge and apply it to fascinating, real-world problems. 

Read more here.

Please join us in congratulating UGA Statistics' 2006 PhD graduate, Dr. Dipankar Bandyopadhyay! 

As a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Bandyopadhyay has recently been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is a tremendous accomplishment, and we are proud that the UGA Department of Statistics had some small role in his development as a statistician!

Congratulations to Jiazhang Cai, recipient of a 2025 Graduate School Summer Research Grant!