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Professor Jiahua Chen receives ICSA's Distinguished Achievement Award

Professor Jiahua Chen has been honoured by the International Chinese Statistical Association, receiving the ICSA’s Distinguished Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the theory of statistics, particularly in the design of experiments, sampling theory, empirical likelihood, finite mixture models, and statistical genetics; for his service to the statistical profession through editorial work and leadership in statistical societies; and for his role as mentor and advisor to...

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August 9, 2016

UBC Statistics professors Chen, Welch, and Joe funded on three national Collaborative Research Team Projects

The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANNSI) is a national institute that funds research and collaborations in the statistical sciences. Three UBC Statistics faculty members have received CANSSI funding through the CANSSI’s Collaborative Research Team Projects program. Each project receives $200,000 over three years to support trainees, travel for collaboration, and workshops. Project team members are at universities across Canada and around the world.
 
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June 29, 2016

Professor Harry Joe Receives SSC Gold Medal

Harry Joe has been awarded the Statistical Society of Canada's Gold Medal, the highest research honour the society bestows.  Harry has received this medal

“….in recognition of his deep and impactful contributions to statistical science, most notably in multivariate dependence modelling, but also in composite likelihood,  statistical computing, time-series analysis, and methodology for psychometric and genetic applications.”

You can read more about the broad extent...

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June 1, 2016

2015 Nash Medal in Statistics Awarded to Ran Wang

The 2015 Stanley W. Nash Medal in Statistics is awarded to Ran Wang.
Ran completed a combined Honours degree in Statistics and Math, and graduated at the May convocation. She has worked with faculty members of the Statistics department on some very interesting research projects, and has accomplished a great deal during her years in the Department. We wish her all the best in her future endeavors!

The Stanley W. Nash Medal in Statistics is made possible through the...

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June 17, 2016

Professor Matias Salibian-Barrera and MSc student Elena Shchurenkova Awarded NSERC Engage Grant

Renee Safrata, the CEO of Vivo Team Development and Professor Salibian-Barrera have been awarded an NSERC Engage Grant to fund a joint research project on statistical analysis of social sciences data.

Matias and MSc student Elena Shchurenkova will offer their statistical expertise to support VIVO's current operations and potential future projects. The main goal of this project is to understand the correlation structure between indicators of team...

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May 17, 2016

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!

This cash prize with accompanying certificate honours Professor...

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May 10, 2016

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.

David Lee is this year’s recipient of the award. David has performed his duties with enthusiasm and expertise, contributing to our excellent undergraduate learning environment. David has contributed to the department’s use of active learning in the classroom through his work in STAT 300 and 305. In...

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May 10, 2016

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.

The Tweedie New Researcher Award was created by action of the IMS Council in honor of Richard L. Tweedie, who...

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May 10, 2016

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...

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May 10, 2016

MathTube Recording of Jim Zidek's Seminar from November 26th

On November 26, 2015, Statistics Professor Emeritus Jim Zidek gave an exciting seminar titled: "The long road to 0.075 ppm and beyond: The statistician’s perspective on the process for setting ozone standards".

In case you missed the lecture, you may watch a recording that PIMS made of it...

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May 10, 2016

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