Statistical Signals Spot Seizures

PhD student Ruishan Lin won first place in the Statistical Significance Competition poster session of the 2025 American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee. The R. Clifton Bailey Travel Award supported her trip.

Department Welcomes New Faculty

Brenda Betancourt, an expert in statistical and computational methods for data integration and network analysis, and Ray Bai, an expert in large-scale, high-dimensional data and deep learning joined the department this fall.

Privacy, Protection, and the Power of Data

Professor Anand Vidyashankar studies the intersection of privacy, security, and the probabilistic foundations of modern AI systems.

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— John Lavelle, BS Statistics ’20

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