Professor Ruben Zamar and PhD student Andy Leung awarded NSERC Egage Grant
Professor Ruben Zamar and Dr. Saber Miresmailli, founder and CEO of Ecoation Innovative Solution Inc. (EIS), have been awarded an NSERC Engage Grant to fund a joint research project, which includes funding for a four-month internship for Statistics PhD student Andy Leung. The project involves Dr. Miresmailli's cutting-edge research on automatic (robot) sensing of different chemicals released by plants in response to pest infections. Dr. Miresemailli anticipates that the commercial application of this technology will help farmers in BC and elsewhere.
Professor Alexandre Bouchard-Côté receives Tweedie New Researcher Award
Congratulations to Professor Alexandre Bouchard-Côté!
Professor Bouchard-Côté received this prestigious award for his excellence in work at the interface of probabilistic modeling, Monte Carlo inference, Bayesian statistics and machine learning and for his contributions to statistical and computational methods in phylogenetics and natural language processing.
Congratulations to 2015 GTA Award Winner, David Lee!
Graduate Teaching Assistants play an important role in the department. Every year since 2011, we have recognized GTA excellence via the Statistics Department's Graduate Teaching Award.
The 2015 Marshall Prize Winner Announced
Andy Leung has been awarded the Marshall Prize for 2015.
Andy is in the late stages of his PhD program, which is being supervised by Dr. Ruben Zamar. Andy already has two publications and an R package at CRAN. He has contributed a lot to the Department as graduate student representative and in the development of WebWork problems. He is also a past winner of a graduate TA award.
Congratulations, Andy!