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The International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) awards fellowships on a biennial basis to recognize ISBA members who have made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work …
It is a great pleasure for the Department of Statistics to announce a special discussion paper in Bayesian Analysis: “Dependent Dirichlet Processes” by Steven N. MacEachern, his original…
Three Statistics students at The Ohio State University spent the summer applying statistical theory and methodology to research questions spanning network science, educational measurement, and…
Dennis Baidoo, a first-year PhD student in Biostatistics, received the Norman Beery Memorial Scholarship from the American Statistical Association (ASA), recognized at the 2026 Joint Statistical…
Statistics Professor Shili Lin has been awarded Co-Investigator in a new grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. The grant aims to improve pulmonary hypertension risk prediction by…
Jennifer Sinnott, Associate Professor of Statistics, received a 5-year, $3.6 million multi-PI R01 Award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities collaborating with PIs…
On August 2, 2026, the Department of Statistics co-hosted its annual mixer with Biostatistics. Held during the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston at Row 34 - Seaport, the mixer brought…
Please join us in congratulating Kate Hu, whose project was one of fourteen selected for funding through the Spring 2026 President's Research Excellence (PRE) program!
According to the…
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Yuan Zhang has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant (amount 150K USD) for the collaborative project, "Statistical Foundations for…
The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology comprises a wide array of investigators driving innovation at the interface of mathematics and biology. NSF-Simons NITMB…
May brought the passing of the Annual Conference on Excellence in Teaching & Learning, a conference in which members of The Ohio State University community to share innovative and interesting…
Arkajyoti (AJ) Bhattacharjee, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Statistics, received a Best Poster Award at the 2026 Joint Biostatistics Symposium in recognition of his outstanding…
Statistics PhD student Jae Ho Chang has received a Best Student Poster Award from the American Statistical Association Georgia Chapter in recognition of his research presentation, “Personalized…
Congratulations to the 2026 Statistics Spring Awards winners! On May 6th at the Whetstone Park of Roses fifteen students, faculty, and staff were recognized for their accomplishments. The…
The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest community of statisticians and data scientists. Members serve in industry, government, and academia in more than 90 countries, advancing…
Congratulations to every graduate in the Statistics Department! This spring 59 students received their BS in Data Analytics, 54 students received their BS in Statistics, and 30 students received…
The Department of Statistics wishes congratulations to Kate Hu for her work in developing the Ohio Regional Carbohydrate Health And Research Database (ORCHARD): Climate-Resilient Apple Production…
Held April 10–12 in Cockins Hall, the 10th iteration of DataFest brought together undergraduate students from across the university for an intensive weekend of data analysis, collaboration, and…
The Department of Statistics is celebrating research achievements by our current and recently graduated students in terms of publications from approximately the last one and a half years. In the…
The Department of Statistics is proud to announce that three graduate students have been awarded summer Graduate Research Associate (GRA) appointments to pursue advanced research alongside faculty…
Congratulations to Steven MacEachern for his election to the AAAS Fellowship! The fellowship recognizes scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications and…
The Department of Statistics at Ohio State congratulates Andrew Shan and Yiqian Zhang for their awards in the 2026 ENAR student contest. Andrew Shan won a student paper award for his paper titled …
Thank you to everyone who attended this interactive workshop hosted by Associate Professor Dena Asta and Associate Professor Subhadeep Paul, which focused on emerging research directions in…
Statistics faculty and students enthusiastically participated in the inaugural OSU AI Research Summit held at the Blackwell hotel on March 3-4.
The AI summit was co-hosted by OSU's newly…
The Department of Statistics wants to wish congratulations to Max Russo and his collaborator Macarius Donneyong, Associate Professor in the Colleges of Pharmacy and Public Health, on their project…
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…
Congratulations to Yue Ma for being selected as a winner in the student paper competitions of two ASA sections - the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) and the Section on Physical and…
Please join us in welcoming Lecturer Stephen Colegate to the Department of Statistics
Stephen Colegate is excited to join the Department of Statistics for the Spring 2026 term. Stephen most…
Please join us in welcoming Lecturer Michael Okanta to the Department of Statistics
Michael Okanta joins the Department of Statistics this spring as a new Lecturer. Originally…
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…
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…
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 "…
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…
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 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 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 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…
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…
Statistics faculty Massimiliano Russo and his collaborator Macarius Donneyong (Ohio State College of Pharmacy) have been awarded the Best Poster Award in the drug-drug interactions spotlight session…
Congratulations to Shili Lin for being awarded the Societal Impact Award from the Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science. The award is given annually to a statistician or data scientist…
Dr. Oh-Ran Kwon has joined the Department of Statistics on August 15. Oh-Ran comes to us from the University of Southern California, where she was a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Jacob…
Dr. Sagnik Nandy has joined the Department of Statistics as of August 15. Prior to this, he was a Kruskal Instructor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. He completed his…
We are thrilled to announce that recent graduate, Xinyu Zhang (PhD, 2025), has been presented with the Laplace Award!
The Laplace Award, named after the renowned French mathematician Pierre…
An interdisciplinary team led by Statistics faculty Subhadeep Paul has been awarded a grant from the NSF Mathematical Foundations for Digital Twin (MATH-DT) program. The team will develop
The Department will be co-hosting a mixer event with Biostatistics at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville, TN. The event will take place at Ole Smoky Distillery (423 6th Ave South)…
The following faculty, alumni and students will be representing The Ohio State University's Department of Statistics next week at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee…
Congratulations to PhD student Kiljae Lee, whose co‑first‑authored paper "Faithful Group Shapley Value" received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper at the International Conference on Machine…
The Department of Statistics is ecstatic to announce that Drs. David Sivakoff and Thomas Metzger were notified of their promotions by the Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda on Wednesday, May 21st!
Statistics alumnus Brian Millen has been elected President of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Millen graduated with a PhD in Statistics in 2001 and currently serves as vice president,…
On Wednesday, April 30, faculty, students and staff gathered to celebrate the excellence demonstrated in the 2024-2025 academic year. This event includes the presentation of annual awards and this…
PhD student Jae Ho Chang has received a $500 student travel award from Frontiers in Statistical Machine Learning 2025 (FSML) to present at their inaugural workshop being held in conjunction with the…
Congratulations to Seth Adarkwah Yiadom on winning the AAPOR Student Inclusion Fellowship award. The fellowship targets members of historically underrepresented groups interested in the study of…
On April 10th, Ye Jin Choi and Biqing Yang presented at the Whitney Award for Research Seminar. Ye Jin Choi’s research focused on K Functions for Spatial Functional Data with Phase…
Congratulations to Andrew Shan on receiving an honorable mention at the 2025 Joint Biostatistics Symposium. The Joint Biostatistics Symposium is an event where researchers, students…
Congratulations to Nicholas Mandarano on receiving the Graduate Associate Teaching Award. The GATA is Ohio State’s highest recognition of exceptional teaching provided by a graduate…
Yejin Choi, a PhD student in our department advised by Dr. Sebastian Kurtek, won 2nd place in the oral presentation category of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences area at the 2025 (39th)…
ASA DataFest, a collaborative competition for undergraduate students at The Ohio State University, will be held between Friday, March 21 and Sunday, March 23 2025. We are looking for teams of 3-5…
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Xiaoxuan Cai, recently awarded a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant! This project aims to combine Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and smart…
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Xiaoxuan Cai who was recently awarded a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant! This project aims to analyze SPI usage and how it can be optimized…
Congratulations to Seth Adarkwah Yiadom on winning the ASA Student Paper Competition!
The American Statistical Association’s student paper competition encompasses many different statistical…
Congratulations to Dr. Subhadeep Paul for being awarded with the President's Research Excellence Accelerator grant!
Subhadeep and his collaborator, Debdipta Goswami are among thirteen…
Congratulations to Xinyu Zhang on winning the SBSS Student Paper Competition. The American Statistical Association’s Section on Bayesian Statistical Science focuses on encouraging researchers to…
The Department of Statistics has released their December Newsletter, a year in review for the Department’s staff and students. The December newsletter highlights the conferences, research, and new…
Congratulations to Xinyi Xu and Sally Paganin who are newly elected to be officers of The International Society for Bayesian Analysis. ISBA was founded in 1992 and fosters the…
The Department of Statistics congratulates Biostatistics PhD student, Andrew Shan, for being named among the 2024-2025 Presidential Fellowship recipients. The Presidential Fellowship is the most…
On Oct 2, 2024, OSU staff, students, faculty, and guests joined for the opening ceremony of the Amgen STEM learning center in Ramseyer Hall. The new learning center will provide STEM students with…
Congratulations to Sally Paganin!
Sally Paganin, Assistant Professor of Statistics, has been named Program Chair-Elect 2025 for Bayesian Statistical Science (est. 1992) SBSS with the…
Congratulations to all the participants who placed in the Pickleball Tournament and 5.0k Virtual Race, held to commemorate the Department of Statistics 50th Anniversary Celebration. The following…
In conjunction with its 50th Anniversary Celebration, The Department of Statistics presented its inaugural Alumni Award at the Golden Anniversary Banquet on October 6, 2024. The recipients were Dr…
On October 7, 2024, the Department of Statistics hosted a Poster Presentation in conjunction with their 50th Anniversary Celebration. The following presenters had the opportunity to share their…
The Department of Statistics hosted alumni and friends for its 50th Anniversary Celebration October 6-8, 2024. The events included two days of presentations, receptions, and friendly competitions…
Subhadeep Paul, Associate Professor of Statistics, has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS). He joins Statistics Professor,…
Congratulations to those who recently competed the TDAI Data Science Summer Camp! The camp is a free, week-long program held every July for students in grades 7 to 9, and it is designed to…
An impressive number of faculty and students from Ohio State will be representing the university as presenters and panelists, as well as session chairs and/or organizers at the 2024 Joint…
Join us at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland when we co-host — along with the Division of Biostatistics — The Ohio State Statistics and Biostatistics Mixer!
The Mixer will…
Laura Kubatko serves on the organizing committee for the semester-long program on “Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics” at the Institute for Computational and…
Professors Steve MacEachern, Juhee Lee (University of California - Santa Cruz) and Hang Kim (University of Cincinnati) were awarded a National Science Foundation grant, entitled "Robust and…
Shili Lin has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Prof. Lin received the award for excellent research in methodological and computational statistical genetics and…
Yi Tang Chen, PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Biostatistics program, was awarded the runner-up prize in the 2024 Statistical Methods in Imaging Conference student paper competition (case…
ASA DataFest, a collaborative competition for undergraduate students at The Ohio State University, will be held between Friday, April 5 and Sunday, April 7, 2024. We are looking for teams of 3-5…
Professor Emerita Angela Dean was featured in the Autumn 2023 Emeritus Academy Newsletter. You can find the full newsletter at this link, and read the feature of Professor Dean below (reproduced…
Statistics PhD student Wenxin Du (left in photo) and Biostatistics PhD student Micaela Richter (right) presented their research at the 2023 Interdisciplinary Research Fall Forum co-hosted by TDAI…
Did you know that Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, was also a statistician who created one of the first versions of the pie chart?
The Caucus for Women in Statistics is…
Bill Notz, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Ohio State, is the 2023 recipient of the Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award. This award from the ASA recognizes an individual for sustained…
Dr. Staci Hepler, Associate Professor at Wake Forest University and 2015 graduate of the Statistics Ph.D. program at Ohio State, received an Early Investigator Award from the ASA Section on…
Dr. Oksana Chkrebtii is a core faculty for the HAMMER project, a $26 million NSF-funded multi-institutional engineering research center (ERC) led by colleagues at the Department of Materials…
Dr. Yuan Zhang was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, entitled U-statistic Reduction with Accurate Risk Control. This project aims to develop inference tools and…
The Statistics Department hosted a lunch at the OSU Faculty Club to celebrate our graduating graduate students for Winter, Spring and Summer 2023. The department also honored Dr. Darry Andrews for…
At the department spring gathering we honored some of our outstanding faculty, staff and students. Congratulations to all the award winners!
Outstanding Teacher
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Defne Ceyhan, a second-year honors student majoring in Data Analytics with a minor in Biology, has been awarded a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Ceyhan started computational genomics…
Professor Shili Lin was the Guest of Honor at the Advances in Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Biomedical, Genetic, and Omics Data conference last weekend. Prof. Lin was…
Congratulations to Statistics undergraduate Jimmy Erkens for winning second place in the Animal Sciences category at the 2023 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum! The Denman Undergraduate Research…
Congratulations to Statistics PhD student Yoonji Kim for winning third place in the College of Arts and Sciences Three Minute Thesis competition! In the competition, graduate students are…
The 5th Annual Florence Nightingale Day will be held on October 29 at Ohio State University and virtually. Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing and a pioneer in data…
Jennifer Sinnott, associate professor of statistics, is a member of an interdisciplinary team recently awarded a $2.4 million R37 MERIT Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for…
The Ohio 5-OSU SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) program invites students from the Five Colleges of Ohio (College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College and…
Mario Peruggia and collaborators Shadrick Addy (OSU Design and ACCAD) and Deborah Kunkel (Clemson University and OSU Statistics alumna) were selected by the Translational Data Analytics Institute…
Five Ohio State faculty members received recognition as Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, D.C. The celebration included…
Statistics Ph.D. student Yoonji Kim has been selected to receive the Do-Bui Travel Award by the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS). The award will be presented at the CWS reception at the Joint…
Brooke O'Leary won the Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award, which recognizes "staff members in the Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated sustained excellence in overall job performance and…
Xinyi Xu is part of an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional group of scientists who have won a 5-year NIH National Cancer Institute grant titled "Time-Varying Relationships Between Built…
Congratulations to Dr. Chris Hans and Dr. Xinyi Xu on being selected as 2022 American Statistical Association (ASA) Fellows! ASA Fellows are selected for their outstanding contributions to…
Grace Wahba, Emerita Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Ohio State in the spring commencement. She is best known…
Yoonji Kim, a Statistics Ph.D. student, received an Honorable Mention at the Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering poster presentation session at the Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research…
Congratulations to Xiaohan Guo, a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Biostatistics, on winning 4th place in the 2021-2022 Three Minute Thesis university-wide competition. For the…
Congratulations to Statistics Ph.D. alum Dr. John Lewis and Professors Steve MacEachern and Yoonkyung Lee on their paper being selected for discussion by the journal Bayesian Analysis. Their paper…
Matt Amodio received a bachelors degree in actuarial science from the Mathematics Department and a master's degree from the Department of Statistics at Ohio State prior to his epic 38 game winning…
Net Zhang, Data Analytics '22, talks about his exciting internship experience with Worthington Industries in a College of Arts and Sciences, Career Success feature about The Buckeye Advantage.
Xiaohan Guo, PhD student in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in Biostatistics, received a third place prize for his poster presentation at the Translational Data Analytics Institute's 2021 Fall…
Congratulations Jonathan Baker and Eloise Kaizar on being selected for the 2021-22 President and Provost's Leadership Institute.
Eloise is Professor of Statistics and Jonathan is Associated…
Congratulations to Brooke O'Leary on winning the NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Global Outstanding Advising Award - Primary Advising Role!
Brooke is our Academic Planning…
Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)’s 2019-20 Research Report features Laura Kubatko, Professor of Statistics and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, for introducing students to R software via…
Congratulations to Dr. Steven MacEachern on being elected as a 2021 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Fellow! IMS Fellows are nominated in recognition of their research in statistics or…
Statistics PhD Graduates
Nathaniel Onnen
Andrew Richards
Shuyi Wang
Jianhao Zhang
Woobeen Lim
Shuyuan Lou
Dr. Michelle Everson, Associated Professor & Program Specialist in our department, has received the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer!
This prestigious award…
In recognition of women in statistics, the American Statistical Association (ASA) features our statistics PhD alumna, Jessica Kohlschmidt, in a recent newsletter story.
Jessica had a…
Statistics PhD alumna Dionne Swift and nine other Black/African-American statisticians are recognized by American Statistical Association (ASA) for their tremendous contributions to the field of…
The Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University is seeking applicants for several non-tenure-track positions. These positions will range in level from Lecturer to Senior…
Brooke O'Leary, the Academic Planning Specialist and advisor for the Data Analytics major, has won the NACADA Region 5 Excellence in Advising - Advisor Primary Role for the year!
NACADA is…
Shuhan Tang, a recent PhD graduate, is the recipient of the Distinguished Student Paper Award, given by the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society. Shuhan's award…
Congratulations to Professor Steven MacEachern on his recent selection as Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)! A small number of ISBA Fellows are elected every two…
Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal of the University of Toronto presented the Chhotey Lal and Mohra Devi Rustagi Memorial Lecture to The Ohio State University on Oct. 22, 2020. The Rustagi Lecture was…
Jared Huling and Jennifer Lundine (assistant professor in speech and hearing science) were awarded a two-year grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human…
A manuscript co-authored by Laura Kubatko has been named one of 15 significant articles to be published in Theoretical Population Biology in a special issue dedicated to the journal's…
Professor Laura Kubatko, who holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Statistics and Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, is featured on this week's Voices of Excellence…
Yoon Lee and Yunzhang Zhu have won a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant entitled Model Evaluation in Modern Predictive Regimes: Case Influence and Model Complexity. The project aims…
Thinking about your professional future and not sure what steps to take next? "Your Summer. Your Success." is a series on grit, career advancement, and connections. It's free for #OhioState…
Matt Pratola is part of an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional group of scientists who have won a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant entitled Bayesian Analysis of Nuclear Dynamics …
Xinyi Xu has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant on causal inference with collaborators Steve MacEachern (Statistics) and Bo Lu (Biostatistics). The project, entitled Robust…
Peter Craigmile has been elected as a 2020 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Fellow! IMS Fellows are nominated in recognition of their research in statistics or probability. Peter was…
James Matuk, a Ph.D. candidate in his 4th year of studies, has won the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award! The award funds travel and registration to…
Our own Brooke O’Leary, Academic Planning Specialist for the Data Analytics program, has received the 2019-2020 Outstanding Advisor Award from ACADAOS, the Academic Advising Association of The…
MS in Statistics
David Angeles
Joel Bracken
Qiaolan Deng
Alyssa Farmer
Yuan Gao
Jacob Howell
Md Rejuan Haque
Shuyuan Lou
Jing Peng
Anna…
The 2020 Department award winners have been announced by email this year due to the lockdown. Congratulations to all the recipients! The list of the former winners can be found at the award page.…