News: Research

2023

Welcome to our new hires!

August 1, 2023

PSD datamap for Statistics

Please join us in welcoming Tristan Goodwill, Anjali Nair, Siyao Yang, and Yuxin Zhou, our new William H. Kruskal Instructors.


Workshop on Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging

July 26, 2023

Workshop on Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging August 7-10, 2023

Workshop on Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging August 7-10, 2023


Chao Gao awarded the Noether Early Career Scholar Award for 2023

July 13, 2023

Chao Gao

Chao Gao, assistant professor, Department of Statistics, is a recipient of the Noether Early Career Scholar Award for 2023. 


Alumni SPOTLIGHT:  Meet Miaoyan Wang

July 7, 2023


Welcome to our new faculty

July 6, 2023

Nikolaos (Nikos) Ignatiadis and Ryan McShane

The Department welcomes two new faculty: Nikolaos (Nikos) Ignatiadis, assistant professor, and Ryan McShane, assistant instructional professor, to the Department of Statistics, and the Data Science Institute.


Axiom’s zero-knowledge proofs might one day help detect deepfakes

July 6, 2023

Yi Sun, assistant professor, Department of Statistics and the College

Prof. Yi Sun discusses his startup Axiom developing technology to quickly and accurately detect deepfakes on the internet.


Guillaume Bal appointed Director of CCAM

July 5, 2023

Guillaume Bal, Professor, Departments of Statistics (CAMI), Mathematics, and the College has been appointed as Director of the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM), effective July 1, 2023.


Faculty accolade: Dan Nicolae

July 5, 2023

Dan Nicolae, Professor

Dan Nicolae has been named the Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor.


Robert E. Kass Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 12, 2023

Robert E. Kass, PhD'80, Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics & Computational Neuroscience

Robert E. Kass, alumnus of the Department of Statistics, PhD'80, and the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. 


Matthew Stephens elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society!

May 10, 2023

Matthew Stephens, Ralph W. Gerard Professor, Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, and the College

Our Chair, Matthew Stephens, Ralph W. Gerard Professor, Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, and member of the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society!


Our Spring Quarter 2023 Graduates

May 2, 2023

Congratulations and best wishes!


Alumni SPOTLIGHT: Meet Andrew Poppick, PhD’16

April 25, 2023


Alumni SPOTLIGHT:  Meet Shinpei Nakamura Sakai

April 5, 2023


Alumni SPOTLIGHT:  Meet Stefano Castruccio

March 10, 2023


An Applied Mathematician With an Unexpected Toolbox

March 3, 2023

Lek-Heng Lim, Professor, Department of Statistics and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics

Lek-Heng Lim uses tools from algebra, geometry and topology to answer questions in machine learning.