Florida State University Department of Statistics

Meet Emily Griffith, an alumna of the Florida State University Department of Statistics and fellow of The American Statistical Association. Griffith is currently a professor of the practice and associate department head at NC State University. Read more about what Griffith has been up to recently, including leading a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in the latest FSU College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Spotlight: fla.st/W3BFPFOG

Register now for our 5th annual Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture !

The annual Myles Hollander Distinguished Lectureship features a top expert in statistics who has made a lasting impact on the field. This year, the Florida State University Department of Statistics is honored to host Robert E. Kass, a leader in applying statistics to neuroscience and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Registration is required, so reserve your spot today: fla.st/6X1IG5SR

Sending our best wishes to Yuexuan Wu, an alumnus of the Florida State University Department of Statistics, as he begins his new role as an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina! 👏 Read more about Wu's research: https://bit.ly/4dXOSxp

Congratulations to Florida State University Department of Statistics alumnus Yichuan Zhao on receiving the 2024 Outstanding Service Award from the International Chinese Statistical Association! Read more about Zhao and this year's ICSA honorees: https://www.icsa.org/2024_awardees/

Excited about this Fall!

We are hiring!

The Department of Statistics at Florida State University invites applications for three tenure-track Assistant Professor positions starting in August 2025. These positions provide opportunities for engagement with the large undergraduate program and vibrant M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Biostatistics, Data Science, and Statistics.

Candidates with research areas in Biostatistics, Data Science, Statistics or related fields are encouraged to apply. The successful candidates will join a faculty with research expertise including machine learning, high dimensional data, network analysis, survival and longitudinal analysis, Bayesian analysis, shape/object data analysis, causality and data privacy, to name a few (see stat.fsu.edu), in a collaborative environment at a comprehensive, Carnegie Rl University. Responsibilities include teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, conducting research, and student mentoring.

A doctoral degree from an accredited institution in Biostatistics, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field with a demonstrated record of achievement in teaching and academic research is required.

Apply for the positions at http:/ /jobs.fsu.edu (Job ID 58546). Three letters of recommendation are required. Applications received by October 15, 2024, will be guaranteed full consideration. The application window closes on November 1, 2024. On-campus interviews will begin in November 2024. For questions about our hiring process, please contact Pamela McGhee, [email protected].

FSU is an Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Pro Disabled & Veteran Employer. FSU's Equal Opportunity Statement can be viewed at:
https://hr.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/upcbnu2186/files/PDF/Publications/diversity/EEO_Statement.pdf.

If you are attending JSM this summer and don't yet have your own Statistics Polo shirt like this fancy gentleman, please let us know if you want to purchase one! We can deliver it to you at the meeting or send via mail. Message us for details!

We are pleased to announce that our alumni and faculty raised over $45,800 in the past few months to set up the Fred W. Huffer Endowment for Excellence scholarship fund in honor of Dr. Huffer's upcoming retirement on 8/5/2024! Thanks to Hulin Wu, (https://sbmi.uth.edu/faculty-and-staff/hulin-wu.htm) for spearheading this effort! We love our alumni!

Dear FSU Alumni,

We are excited to invite you to the FSU Alumni Dinner at the upcoming JSM 2024 conference. This year's dinner will take place on Monday, August 5 (6:30 PM), and we hope to see many of you there!

To RSVP, please fill out the Google form linked below by July 21. Please note that attendees will be responsible for covering the cost of their own dinner.

https://forms.gle/xiPd2xaufGDUqYSd9

This event is usually well-attended, and we expect a great turnout this year as well. We will organize the dinner and make reservations based on the responses we receive.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Indrabati Bhattacharya ([email protected]) or Neve Tong ([email protected]).

We look forward to reconnecting with everyone and sharing a wonderful evening together.

Best regards,
Indrabati and Neve

RSVP for the FSU Alumni Dinner at JSM 2024 Event Date: August 5, 2024 Event Address: TBA Please fill out this form by July 21, 2024. If you have any questions, please contact Indrabati Bhattacharya ([email protected]) or Neve Tong ([email protected]).

Hongyuan Cao will be promoted to Full Professor this Fall. She was recently selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association this year! Did you know that she is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity at FSU?

Alumnus Edsel Pena was selected as an IMS Fellow recently! Read about it at:

USC's Edsel Peña, incoming statistics department chair, elected IMS Fellow Edsel Peña has reached a high point in his nearly 40-year career. The professor in USC's Department of Statistics has been named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), one of the biggest honors for a statistician. In addition, Peña has received an award from the Philippine-Ame...

Who's attending JSM 2024 in Portland?

Congratulations to our 2022-2023 student award winners:

Ralph A. Bradley award for best Ph.D. student:
Kai Deng

Best Graduate Teaching Assistant:
Abhishek Mandal

Best First-Year Students in Theoretical Statistics:
Jinke Li
Taniya Sarkar

Best First-Year Students in Computational Statistics:
Shubham Santosh Dhumal
Nicholas Wibert

Best First-Year Students in Applied Statistics:
Doyoung Kim
Rongxin Zha

Clara Kibler Davis Scholarship Winners:

(Graduate)
Shijie Zhou
Madelyn Clinch
Haesong Choi
Myeon Yeon

(Undergraduate)
Amber Collinsworth-Burnett
Hailey Anderson

Korwar Family Graduate Fellowship:

Junge Li

Small-ish but mighty! FSU Dinner at JSM in Toronto.

Things are getting spooky in the Department of Statistics!

The 2022 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture is coming up at Florida State University on Wednesday, Nov. 9! Join the Florida State University Department of Statistics as Stanford University Professor Trevor Hastie presents "Cross-validation in Model Selection and Assessment." Register to attend in person or via Zoom, here: https://stat.fsu.edu/HollanderLecture

Congratulations to Sharifah Al Rajhi, Ph.D. 2015, for her new role!