Congratulations to 2023 GTA Award Winner, Xinglong Li!
The Statistics Department is pleased to honour Xinglong Li with Statistics Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards
Statistics PhD Student Kevin Lam Awarded CANSSI Graduate Student Enrichment Scholarship
Congratulations to Kevin Lam, a Statistics PhD student, for being selected to receive funding through CANSSI's Graduate Student Enrichment Scholarships (GSES) program!
UBC Undergrad Stuns as Plenary Speaker at NCRC 2024
UBC Statistics 4th year student Abhinav Kansal captivated audiences at the prestigious National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) 2024, held at Harvard University. Selected as one of only twelve Plenary Speakers from over 500 students representing 100+ universities globally, the student showcased exceptional passion and technical expertise.
Associate Professor, Trevor Campbell, Receives the Early Career Award 2023 by PIMS/UBC
In a recent announcement on the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)'s website, our Statistics Associate Professor, Trevor Campbell, was awarded the PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award for 2023. This award recognizes UBC researchers for their leading edge work in mathematics or its applications in the sciences.
Call for nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science for Academic Year 2023-24
The Department of Statistics is soliciting nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science, an award to recognize the importance of developing and applying tools to answer important questions through the analysis of data.
Free Statistical Consultation: 2023/24
The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 551, SOS and STAT 450/550, as follows:
Recipients of the 2023 Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarship
This year’s recipients of the Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarships are Wanqing Hu and Chenyue Qian.
MSc Student Nirupama Tamvada receives the 2022 Rick White Award
Congratulations to Nirupama Tamvada, the recipient of the Rick White Award for the UBC academic year 2022.
Nirupama has had the opportunity to work on fruitful collaborations related to biomedical data. She worked in collaboration with the CANSII CRT research team to develop a methodology for analyzing high-dimensional survival data with multiple events.
Free Statistical Consultation: 2023/24
The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 551, SOS and STAT 450/550, as follows:
Chloe You won the CSSC Oral Presentation Award
Congratulations to UBC Statistics M.Sc. student Xinyuan (Chloe) You for winning the CSSC Oral Presentation Competition. Chloe’s talk on "Regularized Relative Risk Regression for High-dimensional Data" won the 2nd prize oral presentation at the Master’s level at the 11th Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC). Chloe is supervised by professor Gabriela V. Cohen-Freue.