Statistics

Friends of UF Statistics, I wanted to provide you all an update on the current happenings within the department. I am happy to report that in Spring 2023, we welcomed three new faculty members to our team: Sohom Bhattacharya, Ziping Xu, and ...

Ziping Xu is an accomplished academic who will be joining the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida as an assistant professor in 2024. Currently, he is completing a one-year postdoctoral training at Harvard University under the guidance of ...

Thanks to a generous donation from our esteemed past provost, Dr. Joe Glover, we proudly presented the first-ever Glover Data Science Scholarship this year. Nicholas Esposito emerged as the deserving recipient of this prestigious scholarship. This landmark event has been ...

This November, we held our endowed lectures, the Challis Lectures. Professor Gareth Roberts from Warwick University was our invited guest speaker. Professor Gareth Roberts is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at The University of Warwick.  His research interests include ...

In May 2023, 14 UF statistics and data science students participated in the second study abroad program focused on exploring the history of statistics in England. This program, led by faculty Beth Johnson and David Holmes, was based in Cambridge ...