The Department of Statistics is celebrating research achievements by our current and recently graduated students in terms of publications over the last year. In this second edition, we are highlighting recent publications by 8 of our students.

The papers in this collection have all appeared in 2025 or late 2024. The students whose papers are being featured are James Matuk, Kiljae Lee, Meijia Shao, David Angeles, Juan Xie, Nicole Schnitzler, MD Rejuan Haque, and Jiaxin Chen. Congratulations to all of them!

Topo-Geometric Analysis of Variability in Point Clouds using Persistence Landscapes

James Matuk, Sebastian Kurtek, Karthik Bharath

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Faithful Group Shapely Value

Kiljae Lee*, Ziqi Liu*, Weijing Tang, Yuan Zhang (*co-first authors)

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025

Higher-order accurate two-sample network inference and network hashing

Meijia Shao, Dong Xia, Yuan Zhang, Qiong Wu and Shuo Chen

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2025

Tumor-Associated NK Cells Regulate Distinct CD8+ T-cell Differentiation Program in Cancer and Contribute to Resistance against Immune Checkpoint Blockers

No-Joon Song, Juan Xie, Kyeong Joo Jung, Yi Wang, Joanna Pozniak, Niccolo Roda, Jean-Christophe Marine, Brian P Riesenberg, Hyeongseon Jeon, Anjun Ma, Nathanael Cox, Darren Wethington, Kelsi Reynolds, Tong Xiao, Anqi Li, Parker Kronen, Nicholas Denko, David P Carbone, Qin Ma, William E Carson III, Bethany L Mundy-Bosse, Christin E Burd, Jayajit Das, Dongjun Chung, Zihai Li

Cancer Discovery

Classification of Bovidae Fossils from Gladysvale, South Africa Using Elastic Shape Analysis