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Peter Hoff designated an ASA Fellow
Tuesday, April 17, 2018Peter Hoff has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. The ASA selects up to one third of one percent of its members as fellows, in recognition of "outstanding contributions to statistical science."
Elizabeth Lorenzi Received Honorable Mention for the ASA Cox Scholarship Award
Wednesday, April 11, 2018Elizabeth C. Lorenzi received an honorable mention for the ASA Cox Scholarship Award. She is pursuing a PhD in Statistics at Duke University. She has excelled in both academics and research. Most extraordinarily, she has grown a statistical research project on prediction of complications after... Read More »
Duke Undergraduate Machine Learning Day
Friday, March 23, 2018Saturday, March 31, 2018 | Gross Hall, Duke University Schedule 9am: Registration and breakfast 10am: Introduction and keynote 11am: Workshops 12pm: Networking lunch 1pm: Workshops 2.30pm: Refreshments 3pm: Research spotlight 4pm: ... Read More »
David Dunson wins awards
Monday, March 5, 2018Sponsor: Alibaba Innovative Research Title: Scalable probabilistic inference for huge multi-domain graphs “There has been abundant interest in recent years in developing improved models and algorithms for analysis of very large graphs or networks. There has been a dual... Read More »
DataFest 2018 registration open
Monday, February 26, 2018DataFest 2018 registration is now open, you can sign up at this link.! Seats are limited, don't wait till the last minute! ASA DataFest is a data analysis competition where teams of up to five students attack a large, complex, and surprise dataset over a weekend. Your job is to represent your... Read More »
Junior Faculty Receive Career Awards
Tuesday, February 20, 2018Galen Reeves receives NSF Career Award. Li Ma receives NSF Career Award. Rebecca Steorts receives NSF Career Award.
Katherine Heller receives DARPA award
Tuesday, February 20, 2018The title of the project is: “An Integrated Nonparametric Bayesian and Deep Neural Network Framework for Biologically-Inspired Lifelong Learning” with MIT and UC Berkeley. There have been remarkable advances in recent years using deep neural networks, but generalizing them to new... Read More »
Anirban Bhattacharya wins Junior Noether Award
Wednesday, February 14, 2018Congratulations to Duke DSS alum Anirban Bhattacharya for winning this years Junior Noether Award - given by the ASA to the top young nonparametric statistician internationally. Great job and well deserved Anirban!
Statistical Science MS Students Win Citadel Duke-UNC Data Open
Thursday, February 8, 2018Congratulations to DSS MS students Cecilia Shi, Xingyu Yan and Weiye Li, MS student in Quantitative Financial Economics for winning the Citadel Duke-UNC Data Open! They will represent the Research Triangle area in the National Data... Read More »
Alumna Kate Calder Appointed as Co-Director of Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Saturday, January 20, 2018Our alumna Catherine (Kate) Calder (PhD 2003) has been appointed as co-Director of the US National Mathematical Biosciences Institute! Congratulations Kate! Kate joined the faculty in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University in 2003. She served as an associate... Read More »