UC Davis has been named in the top five of U.S. universities for number of undergraduate degrees granted in Statistics, according to the American Statistical Association.
We are excited to announce that Yaqing Chen, a graduate student in the Statistics PhD program, has been announced as a recipient of a 'Best Student Paper' award:
Best Student Paper Award of the Section of Nonparametric Statistics of the American Statistical Association 2020 for her paper titled "Wasserstein Regression". Yaqing will present her work at JSM 2020.
Please join us in congratulating Yaqing on this remarkable achievement!
Congratulations to our colleagues Jiming and Thomas for being among the leading scientists elected as 2019 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are in a group of ten fellows from UC Davis. AAAS Fellows are honored for their invaluable contributions to science and technology.
We are pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Xiaodong Li won the NSF Career Award in 2019. His award is titled "Statistical Analysis of Nonconvex Optimization in Unsupervised Learning."
We are pleased to announce that Professor Ethan Anderes has been selected to receive the College of Letters and Science Award for Distinguished Teaching for AY 2018-19. Congratulations Professor Anderes!
The Department of Statistics will offer two new Statistical Learning courses next year. Follow the links below for more information about these courses.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Debashis Paul has been named among the 2019 Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Many congratulations to Debashis on receiving this well-deserved honor!
We are very pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Hao Chen has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award. Her award is titled "New Change-Point Problems in Analyzing High-Dimensional and Non-Euclidean Data".
We are very pleased to announce that Distinguished Professor Jane-Ling Wang has won the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Distinguished Achievement Award for 2018.
