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Recent News

  • May 2025: Samuel Hoam and Sean Dalby passed the PhD readiness exams. Congratulations!
  • April 2025: I graduated from GWALA (GW’s Academic Leadership Academy).
  • March 2025: Jilei Lin receives the Student Poster Award in the StatConnect 2025 conference. Congratulations!
  • October 2024: Professors Tatiyana Apanasovich and Huixia Judy Wang received a PIT-UN Network Challenge Grant Award, “Data Science for Health Equity and Environmental Resilience Bootcamp,” which will support the team in developing and hosting a four-week data science bootcamp for a diverse cohort of students. See the PIT-UN award information, the news release from GW today, and the report in GW Hatchet.
  • September 2024: Dr. Wang received a new NSF grant (DMS-2436216) as the lead PI for a collaborative project titled “Collaborative Research: FDT-BioTech: Advancing Mathematical and Statistical Foundations to Enhance Human Digital Twin of Neurophysiological Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification.” See more information here and the NSF New Release.
  • September 2024: Dr. Wang has been appointed as Chair of the IMS Committee on Equality and Diversity, effective September 1, 2024. She is excited to collaborate with other committee members and lead efforts to promote diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity, fairness, and transparency in IMS policies and procedures.
  • August 2024: Dr. Wang has received a new NSF grant (DMS-2426174) as PI for her project titled “Collaborative Research: Unlocking Complex Heterogeneity in Large Spatial-Temporal Data with Scalable Quantile Learning." The project is a joint collaboration with Prof. Lily Wang from George Mason University (under grant DMS-2426173), supported by the NSF CDS&E-MSS program. Read the news article about this joint project.
  • June 2024: Jilei Lin presented a poster titled 'Smoothed Quantile Regression for Spatial Data' at the 2024 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • March 2024: Menghan Yi won the best poster award at the Georges' STAT DAY 2024.
  • August 2023: Dr. Wang has begun serving as the co-editor of Statistica Sinica for a three-year term.
  • August 2023: Dr. Wang has begun serving on the IMS Committee on Finance for a three-year term.
  • June 2023: Dr. Wang has been elected to the IMS Council, with her term running from August 2023 to July 2026.
  • June 2023: Dr. Wang was named the 2023 Mitchell Distinguished Lecturer by the University of Glasgow and delivered a lecture titled "Semiparametric Approaches for Studying Extreme Conditional Quantiles" on June 13, 2023.
  • February 2023: Sean Dalby and Xinyue Zhao received the AAAS Section U Student Travel Awards. Congratulations!
  • August 2022: Dr. Wang was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Medallion Award and Lecture from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and delivered a lecture on "Extreme Conditional Quantiles" on August 10, 2022.