News

Yang (Seagle) Liu has been awarded the Statistics Department Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2014. Seagle is an outstanding TA who consistently scores highly on student TA evaluations. Time and time again, students have indicated Seagle’s willingness to go above and beyond in order to help them when they are struggling. Seagle has contributed to the educational mission of the Department through his direct role in courses, as well as by acting as a leader and mentor for newer TAs.  

Thank you, Seagle, for your hard work and dedication!

Statistics PhD candidate Camila Casquilho Resende has been awarded the prestigious Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2014/2015.

Professors John Petkau, Gabriela Cohen-Freue, and Matías Salibián-Barrera were featured in a recent article on the Faculty of Science webpage!

The article showcases some of the exciting and cutting edge collaborative research that is being carried out by faculty and students within the Department of Statistics, and demonstrates the importance of statistics in all other scientific disciplines.

PIMS and CANSSI are proud to offer this exciting workshop. From the workshop material, we read:

Jeff Bone has been awarded the 2015 Lorraine Schwartz Prize, which is awarded annually for distinctions in the fields of Statistics and Probability.
 
In the past academic year, Jeff has had a uniformly excellent record in his courses taken in the Statistics and Mathematics departments.

More information about Dr. Schwartz, the prize, and past winners, can be found here.
 
Congratulations, Jeff!

The Nash Medal in Statistics is a prize given to the most outstanding graduating student in the B.Sc. program in Statistics. This year, it has been awarded to Tian Qi (Ricky) Chen.

Ricky graduated with joint Honours in Statistics and Computer Science and is entering the M.Sc. program in Computer Science at UBC this fall.

Congratulations, Ricky!

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The department has much to celebrate in terms of awards after the SSC’s Annual Meeting that took place in Halifax in June this year.

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CRM-SSC Prize Winner—Matías Salibián-Barrera

Dr. Nancy Heckman, professor and Head of Statistics at UBC, has been elected to serve on the Council of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, as announced in the July 15, 2015 issue of the IMS Bulletin.
 

Dr. Camila de Souza has been selected to receive the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics’ Best Student Paper Award for her paper "Switching nonparametric regression models”.  
 

This fall, the department is very pleased to expand upon the popular Exploratory Data Analysis Course (STAT 545A) by offering a follow-up topics course titled "Basic Training for Data Science" (STAT 547M) Both courses are open to graduate students from any discipline.

For more information, go here.