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Faculty Positions Starting 2026
Faculty Positions Starting 2026
Department of Statistics at Columbia University Positions Lecturer in Discipline Position: Starting Fall 2025 – Review begins on February 1, 2025 and will continue until the position is filled....

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In Memoriam: Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo (1951–2025)
In Memoriam: Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo (1951–2025)

In Memoriam: Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo (1951–2025)

The Department of Statistics at Columbia University mourns the passing of Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo, who passed away in Taiwan on October 25, 2025, at the age of 74....

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Founder’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Statistics Starting Fall 2025
Founder’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Statistics Starting Fall 2025

Columbia University Department of Statistics

Founder’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Statistics Starting Fall 2025

Position Description: The Department of Statistics invites applications for the 2025 Founder’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Statistics at Columbia University....

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Congratulations to Howard Levene Assistant Professor Marco Avella Medina for being named a Spring 2024 Junior Faculty Grants Awardee.
Congratulations to Howard Levene Assistant Professor Marco Avella Medina for being named a Spring 2024 Junior Faculty Grants Awardee.
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Probability Theory, Sequential Analysis and Adaptive Methods Conference in Memory Of Professors Y-S Chow and TL Lai - Friday, May 3, 2024 through Saturday, May 4, 2024
Probability Theory, Sequential Analysis and Adaptive Methods Conference in Memory Of Professors Y-S Chow and TL Lai – Friday, May 3, 2024 through Saturday, May 4, 2024

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Probability Theory, Sequential Analysis and Adaptive Methods Conference in Memory Of Professors Y-S Chow and TL Lai

Friday, May 3, 2024 through Saturday, May 4, 2024

Conference Venue

1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room C03 (underground level in the School of Social Work building), New York, NY 10027 (Directions here)...

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Congratulations to our Phd Alum, Yang Kang, on being awarded the 2023 Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award.
Congratulations to our Phd Alum, Yang Kang, on being awarded the 2023 Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award.

We proudly announce that Columbia University Department of Statistics PhD Graduate Class of 2018, Yang Kang, has been awarded the prestigious 2023 Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award....

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Faculty Positions starting 2023 and 2024
Faculty Positions starting 2023 and 2024
Department of Statistics at Columbia University Positions Assistant Professor (Limited Term): Starting Fall 2023 – Review begins on December 1, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled Lecturer in Discipline: Starting Fall 2023 – Review begins on February 1, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled....

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Robust Statistics and Privacy Workshop - Thursday, October 5th - Friday, October 6th
Robust Statistics and Privacy Workshop – Thursday, October 5th – Friday, October 6th

The goal of this workshop will be to present recent developments in robust statistics and differential privacy, including algorithmic foundations, concentration results, inference and applications to high dimensional statistics and machine learning....

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Pathfinder: Parallel quasi-Newton variational inference.
Andrew Gelman (2022).
Before data analysis: Additional recommendations for designing experiments to learn about the world.
Andrew Gelman (2023).
Toward a taxonomy of trust for probabilistic machine learning. Science Advances, 9(7), eabn3999.
Broderick, T., Gelman, A., Meager, R., Smith, A. L., & Zheng, T. (2023).
Taylor's law of fluctuation scaling for semivariances and higher moments of heavy tailed data, (PNAS November 16,2021)
Brown, M., Cohen, J.E., Tang, C-F., & Yam, S.C.P. (2021).
Privacy-preserving parametric inference: a case for robust statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 116(534), 969-983.
Avella-Medina, M. (2021).
Heavy-tailed distributions, correlations, kurtosis, and Taylor’s law of fluctuation scaling. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 476:20200610.
J. E. Cohen, Richard A. Davis, Gennady Samorodnitsky (2020).
A Proxy Variable View of Shared Confounding. In International Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 10697-10707). PMLR.
Wang, Y., & Blei, D. (2021, July).
Count time series: A methodological review. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1-15.
Davis, R. A., Fokianos, K., Holan, S. H., Joe, H., Livsey, J., Lund, R., ... & Ravishanker, N. (2021).
High-frequency analysis of parabolic stochastic PDEs. The Annals of Statistics, 48(2), 1143-1167.
Chong, C. (2020).
The continuous categorical: a novel simplex-valued exponential family. In International Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 3637-3647). PMLR.
Gordon-Rodriguez, E., Loaiza-Ganem, G., & Cunningham, J. (2020, November).
On the bias and variance of odds ratio, relative risk and false discovery proportion. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 1-31.
Pang, G., Alemayehu, D., de la Peña, V., & Klass, M. J. (2020).
Bayesian statistics and modelling. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 1(1), 1-26.
van de Schoot, R., Depaoli, S., King, R., Kramer, B., Märtens, K., Tadesse, M. G., ... & Yau, C. (2021).
A Joint MLE Approach to Large-Scale Structured Latent Attribute Analysis. Journal of the American Statistical Association, (just-accepted), 1-39.
Gu, Y., & Xu, G. (2021).
Self-Tuning Bandits over Unknown Covariate-Shifts. In Algorithmic Learning Theory (pp. 1114-1156). PMLR.
Suk, J., & Kpotufe, S. (2021, March).
An adaptable generalization of Hotelling’s $ T^{2} $ test in high dimension. The Annals of Statistics, 48(3), 1815-1847.
Li, H., Aue, A., Paul, D., Peng, J., & Wang, P. (2020).
An Interaction-based Convolutional Neural Network (ICNN) Towards Better Understanding of COVID-19 X-ray Images. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.06911.
Lo, S. H., & Yin, Y. (2021).
Latent feature extraction for process data via multidimensional scaling. psychometrika, 85(2), 378-397.
Tang, X., Wang, Z., He, Q., Liu, J., & Ying, Z. (2020).
Joint estimation of parameters in Ising model. The Annals of Statistics, 48(2), 785-810.
Ghosal, P., & Mukherjee, S. (2020).
Convergence to the mean-field game limit: a case study. The Annals of Applied Probability, 30(1), 259-286.
Nutz, M., San Martin, J., & Tan, X. (2020).
Neural clustering processes. In International Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 7455-7465). PMLR.
Pakman, A., Wang, Y., Mitelut, C., Lee, J., & Paninski, L. (2020, November).
Credit Risk, Liquidity, and Bubbles. International Review of Finance, 20(3), 737-746.
Jarrow, R., & Protter, P. (2020).
An asymptotic rate for the LASSO loss. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (pp. 3664-3673). PMLR.
Rush, C. (2020, June).
Multivariate rank-based distribution-free nonparametric testing using measure transportation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, (just-accepted), 1-45.
Deb, N., & Sen, B. (2021).
Asset pricing with general transaction costs: Theory and numerics. Mathematical Finance, 31(2), 595-648.
Gonon, L., Muhle‐Karbe, J., & Shi, X. (2021).
Estimating causal effects in studies of human brain function: New models, methods and estimands. The annals of applied statistics, 14(1), 452.
Sobel, M. E., & Lindquist, M. A. (2020).
A note on the Screaming Toes game. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.04805.
Tavaré, S. (2020).
Testing for stationarity of functional time series in the frequency domain. The Annals of Statistics, 48(5), 2505-2547.
Aue, A., & Van Delft, A. (2020).
Distinguishing cause from effect using quantiles: Bivariate quantile causal discovery. In International Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 9311-9323). PMLR.
Tagasovska, N., Chavez-Demoulin, V., & Vatter, T. (2020, November).
Robust estimation of superhedging prices. The Annals of Statistics, 49(1), 508-530
Obłój, J., & Wiesel, J. (2021).
Optimal stopping and worker selection in crowdsourcing: An adaptive sequential probability ratio test framework. Statistica Sinica, 31(1), 519-546.
Li, X., Chen, Y., Chen, X., Liu, J., & Ying, Z. (2021)
Revisiting colocalization via optimal transport. Nature Computational Science, 1(3), 177-178.
Wang, S., & Yuan, M. (2021).
Large‐scale, image‐based tree species mapping in a tropical forest using artificial perceptual learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(4), 608-618.
Tang, C., Uriarte, M., Jin, H., C Morton, D., & Zheng, T. (2021).
From Decoupling and Self-Normalization to Machine Learning
Victor H. de la Pena
Capacity-Achieving Sparse Superposition Codes via Approximate Message Passing Decoding
Cynthia Rush, Adam Greig, Ramji Venkataramanan
Slice Sampling on Hamiltonian Trajectories
John P. Cunningham, Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Feature Augmentation via Nonparametrics and Selection (FANS) in High Dimensional Classification
Fan, J., Feng, Y., Jiang, J. and Tong, X.
Topic-adjusted visibility metric for scientific articles. Ann. Appl. Stat. 10 (2016), no. 1, 1--31.
Linda S. L. Tan, Aik Hui Chan, and Tian Zheng
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