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Alumni Spotlight: Patrick Vacek, MS

Patrick Vacek received his MS in Statistics in Fall 2018. He currently works for Mercedes-Benz as a Data Scientist. Here's what he had to say about his experience in our program!

Seungyong Hwang wins ASA Best Student Paper Award!

We are pleased to announce that Seungyong Hwang, a graduate student in the Biostatistics PhD program, has been announced as a recipient of the 2020 'Best Student Paper' Award of the American Statistical Association "Statistics in Imaging" Section. Seungyong will present his work in a Topic Contributed Session at the 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM).

Please join is in congratulating Seungyong on this remarkable achievement!

Yaqing Chen wins ASA Best Paper Award!

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!

Jiming Jiang & Thomas Lee Elected as 2019 AAAS Fellows!

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.

You can see the full list here: https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-leading-scientists-elected-2019-fellows

Department Newsletter - 2019

The 2019 issue of Statistically Speaking, our department newsletter, is available! You can view it here.

Debashis Paul named IMS Fellow

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!

Hao Chen wins NSF CAREER Award

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". 

Congratulations, Prof. Chen!