We are delighted to extend a warm welcome back to Dr. Edsel Peña, who has just concluded his three-year tenure as a Program Director in the Statistics Program within the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The Department of Statistics is pleased to welcome Drs. Ting Fung Ma, David Weaver, and James Bird as new faculty members.
Dr. Yen-Yi’s NIH proposal, entitled “scDECO: A novel statistical framework to identify differential co-expression gene combinations systematically using single-cell RNA sequencing data,” is awarded from the NCI ITCR program.
The Department of Statistics is delighted to congratulate one of our former Ph.D. students, Dr. William Cipolli, who has received the 2020 Waller Education Award from the American Statistical Association.
Dr. Edsel Pena has started his new position as an NSF Program Director (Rotator Position) in the Statistics Program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Directorate.
Dr. Brian Habing has started his new position as an NISS Associate Director for Education Activates and Research.
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The following events are planned in celebration of Don Edwards' retirement after 36 years of service.
The reunion dinner for JSM attendees from USC statistics was held at Ming Hin restaurant at 5:30 pm, Tuesday, August 2.
The statistics professor is now an elected member of the ISI.
He has joined several other USC graduates at TCube Solutions.
Students, educators, parents, and counselors can learn about statistics as a career.
According to Fortune Magazine, the best graduate degree overall is a Ph.D. in statistics!
Ph.D. students Zizhen Wu and Peijie Hou won awards for their poster presentations at the fall meeting of the South Carolina chapter of American Statistical Association.
Joshua Tebbs was selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, one of the highest honors for a statistician.
Career Prospects for Statisticians are looking good. See the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook for statisticians and for actuaries.
Tim Hanson was selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, among the highest honors for a statistician.