Friends of UF Statistics, I wanted to provide an update of what is currently going on with the department. I am happy to report that we hired three more new faculty in Spring 2024 (Satarupa Bhattacharjee, Thomas Ippolito, and Benjamin Roycraft). Short bios on each of them can be found in the newsletter. In addition, […]
Satarupa Bhattacharjee joined the department of statistics as an assistant professor in fall 2024. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral scholar, working with Professor Bing Li and Professor Lingzhou Xue at Pennsylvania State University from September 2022. Satarupa earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Davis in 2022 under the guidance […]
This past November, we held our endowed lectures, the Challis Lectures. Professor Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen from the University of Pennsylvania was our invited speaker. Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen is university professor, professor of biostatistics in biostatistics and epidemiology and professor of statistics and data science, at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to UPenn, […]
This January we held our 2024 Statistics Winter Workshop jointly with the UF Department of Economics on “Causal inference and its applications,” with the support of InfoTech/McClave & Associates and the UF College of Liberal Arts and Science. Read more https://stat.ufl.edu/winter-workshop/2024-causal-inference-and-its-applications/