Jingyi Zhang recently won 2nd place in the Medical Device and Diagnostic(MDD) Section's student paper award for her paper “Feature Space Fusion for Heterogeneous Scattered Data”.

The Medical Devices and Diagnostics (MDD) section of the ASA sponsors Medical Device and Diagnostic Section's student paper award, a student paper competition for JSM 2021. As the 2^nd place winner she will receive a $300 cash award. Jingyi will present a talk in the MDD section in the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM)(Seattle, Aug 7-12, 2021).

Autoregressive Networks

Nathan Hales, a Data Science major, is a recipient of a CURO Research Assistantship for Spring 2021. This award includes a one-semester stipend of $1000 to conduct faculty-mentored research. As a CURO Research Assistant, Nathan will investigate the efficacy of face masks for filtering expelled droplets during conversations, under the guidance of Drs. Abhyuday Mandal and Suraj Sharma (Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors).

Dan Hall receives the 2021 General Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award.

This award for excellence in teaching annually honors outstanding faculty in the Franklin College who have shown a sustained commitment to high quality instruction.

Robust Experimental Designs for Model Calibration

Veridical Data Science

Bringing Ideas to Fruition—An Investor's Perspective

After a brief description of my long journey from a Statistics graduate to an entrepreneur to an investor, I will give examples of how our venture capitalist firm (CRV) helps bring some new ideas to fruition. I will also talk about how statisticians and data scientists can contribute to today's business environment.