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Recipients of the 2022 Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarship

This year’s recipients of the Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarships are Chenyue Qian and Yujie Chen.

Chenyue Qian is a Statistics major with stellar grades in all courses and the recipient of the Faculty of Science International Student Scholarship and the Trek Excellence Scholarship for Continuing Students. In the summer of 2021, he was an intern at the Bank of Ningbo, which helped him...

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August 26, 2022

Free Statistical Consultation: 2022/23

The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 551, SOS and STAT 450/550, as follows:

  • STAT 551: Term 1 only, open to anyone, via students in STAT 551 mentored by faculty; accepting projects for term 1 2022-23 from now until Oct 31
  • SOS (Statistical Opportunity for Students): year-round, UBC-V graduate students only, via a team of a senior Statistical consultant and a Statistics graduate student...
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August 16, 2022

PhD Student Evan Sidrow receives the 2021 Rick White Award

Congratulation to Evan Sidrow, the recipient of the Rick White Award for the UBC academic year 2021.

Evan has made important contributions to the applied fields of ecology, developing new methods to analyze high frequency biologging data, with a focus on killer whale kinematic data. This work has helped scientists to identify crucial behaviours such as foraging and to understand the differences in health of the Southern and Northern Resident Killer Whales. He is now developing...

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June 6, 2022

Ruijie (Richard) Hou receives Nash Medal

The Nash Medal in Statistics was awarded this academic year to Ruijie (Richard) Hou, who graduates with a combined honours degree in Statistics and Computer Science. Richard has taken many challenging courses, all with very high grades. He has also expanded his skill set by taking the project-based capstone STAT 450 and by working as a co-op student. His co-op work involved application of deep learning in computer vision....

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May 25, 2022

Jonathan Agyeman awarded Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Statistics PhD candidate Jonathan Agyeman has been awarded the prestigious Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2021/2022.

Jonathan has shown an extraordinary commitment to serving the department’s and the university’s teaching mission. He has been an exemplary teaching assistant in over 20 statistics courses, with consistently high student evaluation scores and stellar comments. He has regularly played a leading role in these courses as a Head Teaching Assistant. He has been...

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March 30, 2022

Xin Ding receives the 2021 Marshall Prize

Statistics Ph.D. recipient, Xin Ding, has been awarded the Marshall Prize. Xin recently received his Ph.D., co-supervised by Statistics professor William Welch and Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Jane Wang. Xin’s thesis work was in the exciting area of photo-realistic image generation. His work involved improvement of the techniques of generative adversarial networks and incorporating the ability to generate...

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March 18, 2022

Anthony Christidis wins the 2020-21 Data Science Award

Statistics PhD student Anthony Christidis is the recipient of the 2021-22 Department of Statistics Award in Data Science. Anthony has carried out exceptional work tackling new data analysis problems and collaborating with researchers and industry professionals. He is an expert in scientific computing and software development, in particular, in support of his variable splitting methods that require non-convex...

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March 18, 2022

Professor Marie Auger-Méthé’s talk in the Data Science Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) series

Data Science Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) collaborated between the Department of Statistical Sciences at University of Toronto and CANSSI Ontario is a new speaker series that showcases opportunities in all realms of society for Data Science. And our faculty member Marie Auger-Méthé is the next speaker in the series!

To join...

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March 18, 2022

Professor Jiahua Chen’s talk in the CANSSI Saskatchewan Health Science (CANSSI-SKHS) Collaborating Centre

CANSSI Saskatchewan Health Science (CANSSI-SKHS) Collaborating Centre is organizing a webinar series January-April 2022. And our faculty member Jiahua Chen is the next speaker in the series!

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February 18, 2022

Congratulations to 2021 GTA Award winners, Jonathan Agyeman and Kenny Chiu!

The Statistics Department is pleased to honour Kenny Chiu and Jonathan Agyeman with Statistics Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards.

Kenny is a first year PhD student, continuing from his MSc program in our department. He has been instrumental in the teaching of STAT 305 and STAT 404, through his excellence in teaching, in revising lab material and in introducing new material. He has been...

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January 27, 2022

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