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An institutional collaboration between George Mason University’s Department of Statistics and Inova Health System has entered its 7th year. It has connected physician-scientists with statisticians in designing study plans, clinical trials, and turn complex data into insights, improving research, decision-making, and patient outcomes across a wide range of clinical fields. It also helps to train our students.

One hundred pillows piled on the floor recently stopped people in their tracks in the Nguyen Engineering Building, providing a visual representation of homelessness in Fairfax County.

Driven by a growing passion for data interpretation and real‑world health applications, bioengineering major Mansi Joseph is fast‑tracking her academic journey through George Mason’s Bachelor’s‑to‑Accelerated‑Master’s program in biostatistics.

George Mason University doctoral candidate Jolypich Pek is using advanced statistical modeling in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to address complex physics problems and support the development of faster, more computationally efficient scientific simulation tools.

Wanli Qiao, an associate professor of statistics, is finding the hidden “shapes” in data.

Ray Bai studies how statistics is evolving alongside AI—and how to keep up with a field that never stands still.

If you're looking to head to the tidal basin for peak cherry blossoms, your lucky day might be April 2.

George Mason University's Department of Statistics stands at the forefront of innovation, including in the realm of design of experiments (DoE) .This pivotal field ensuries that data collection methods are optimized to solve specific problems, making unbiased comparisons, and detecting treatment differences more effectively.

George Mason University’s Sports Analytics Networking Event showcased how statistics students are turning classroom skills into real-world opportunities to support elite athletes and become odds-on favorites to launch careers in professional sports.

A George Mason University faculty member is working on a breakthrough in early Alzheimer's detection.

Anand Vidyashankar's research looks at the legal and operational aspects of statistical privacy—developing frameworks that help organizations translate mathematical guarantees into verifiable compliance procedures.

Betancourt is an expert in statistical and computational methods for data integration and network analysis, while Bai is an expert in large-scale, high-dimensional data and deep learning.