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Dr. Yoonkyung Lee Featured on Podcast
Professor Yoonkyung Lee from our department was invited to speak about her advisor Grace Wahba’s teaching, guidance, and encouragement, who was awarded the 2025 International Prize in Statistics…
Student Research Spotlight October 2025
The Department of Statistics is celebrating research achievements by our current and recently graduated students in terms of publications over the last year. In the first edition, we are…
Chenze Li wins third place in ICSA Midwest poster competition
Statistics PhD student Chenze Li has won third place in a poster competition in the ICSA Midwest chapter and NIC-ASA joint fall conference 2025. Chenze won the award for his poster on the paper "…
Welcome Mountaga Dia!
Dia has joined the Statistics Department as a Student Assistant this September. He is a second-year Economics student who enjoys the opportunity to continuously learning in an academically driven…
Welcome Melanie Rakitovan
Melanie Rakitovan has joined the Statistics Department as a Student Assistant this October. Melanie is a second-year Finance student with minors in Financial Planning and Accounting from Queens,…
Statistics faculty Xiaoxuan Cai is in the team receiving $19.5 million grant from NIH
Statistics faculty member Xiaoxuan Cai is part of the team from Ohio State that recently received a $19.5 million grant from the NIH for the project "Analyses to Reveal Trajectories and Early…
Statistics faculty Arnab Auddy to present at ASC AI Summit
Statistics faculty member Arnab Auddy has been invited by the College of Arts and Sciences to present his research at the college's AI summit. Arnab will talk about his work on "Adaptive…
Oksana Chkrebtii Receives NSF Grant to Investigate Statistical Foundations of Digital Twins
Oksana Chkrebtii has been made the principal investigator of a new project funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) and the Air Force Office of…
Thomas A. Willke, Founding Member of Statistics Department, 1932-2025
The Department of Statistics mourns the passing of Thomas A. Willke, a founding member of our department, who died peacefully on August 21, 2025, at age 93. Tom received his MA and PhD in Mathematics…