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Department of Statistics Doctoral Student Highlight Series: William Knauth

Department of Statistics Doctoral Student Highlight Series: William Knauth

What are the odds that Schubert’s sonatas, sport airplane piloting, linear neural networks, and the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson Golf Tournament Award would all have something in common?...

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Kevin Jiang, Best Use of Statistical Innovations Award - Fall 2023

Congratulations to Kevin Fu Jiang, a mathematics-statistics major in Columbia College, on winning the “Best Use of Statistical Innovations” Award at the 2023 Undergraduate Computer and Data Science Research Fair....

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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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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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Psychometrics Workshop - September 22-23, 2023

This psychometrics workshop presents research talks on statistical methods (such as latent variable models and graphical models) for complex and heterogeneous data in psychological and educational measurement.  ...

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In Memoriam – Tze Leung Lai

With deep regret and sadness, we share the passing of Tze Leung Lai on Sunday, May 21st. Tze came to our department in 1968 to pursue his doctoral studies under David Siegmund and graduated in 1971....

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