This prize recognizes the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university in a given year.

Victor Veitch is the winner of the Pierre Robillard Award of the Statistical Society of Canada. Victor’s thesis, entitled “(Sparse) ...

The international workshop on “Statistical Challenges in High-dimensional and Complex Data” will be held at Columbia University on Sep 14 and Sep 15, 2018. The workshop will cover a wide range of topics including high-dimensional regression, topic modeling, social network, ...

The 2018 Minghui Yu Memorial Conference, organized by doctoral students at Statistics Department of Columbia University, will take place on Saturday, April 28th at the Faculty House in the Presidential Ballroom. Minghui Yu was a doctoral student at the statistics ...

Congratulations to Professor Jingchen Liu, winner of the 2018 Psychometric Society Early Career Award. The Psychometric Society Early Career Award recognizes scholars at the early stage of their career whose research has the potential to make a major contribution ...

Professor Tian Zheng  (Department of Statistics at Columbia University and Associate Director for Education at DSI) and Professor Maria Uriarte (Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University) have been awarded a Microsoft grant that gives ...

Yunxiao Chen is the recipient of the 2018 Brenda Loyd Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Council on Measurement in Education for his Columbia PhD thesis.

Yunxiao Chen completed his Ph.D. in Statistics at Columbia University (2016). Dr. Chen’s primary ...