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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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The Statistics Department is Hiring Undergraduate Graders, Helproom Tutors and Recitation Leaders for the Fall 2026 Semester
The Statistics Department is Hiring Undergraduate Graders, Helproom Tutors and Recitation Leaders for the Fall 2026 Semester

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The Department of Statistics is seeking applications from Columbia University undergraduate students to serve as help-room tutors during the Fall 2026 semester....

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Congratulations to Professor Alberto Gonzalez Sanz for being awarded the 2025 José Luis Rubio de Francia Prize by the Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME)
Congratulations to Professor Alberto Gonzalez Sanz for being awarded the 2025 José Luis Rubio de Francia Prize by the Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME)

This is one of the main distinctions in Spain for young researchers in mathematics, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. The announcement is available here: https://rsme.es/alberto-gonzalez-sanz-premio-rubio-de-francia-2025/...

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Congratulations to Andrew Gelman for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Andrew Gelman for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences

 

I am delighted to share the wonderful news that Andrew Gelman has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (link)....

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Congratulations to Prof. Cindy Rush For Being A Guest Panelist For the 2026 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate!
Congratulations to Prof. Cindy Rush For Being A Guest Panelist For the 2026 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate!

https://www.amnh.org/calendar/2026-asimov-debate

 

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Website article on ASA student paper winners
Website article on ASA student paper winners
Two Department of Statistics PhD Program students have earned national recognition in the 2026 Student Paper Competition hosted by the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS)....

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Ming Yuan will be giving an invited talk at ICM 2026 (the International Congress of Mathematicians)
Ming Yuan will be giving an invited talk at ICM 2026 (the International Congress of Mathematicians)

Ming Yuan will be giving an invited talk at ICM 2026 (the International Congress of Mathematicians), one of the most prestigious conferences in mathematics. ...

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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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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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