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 one new faculty member in Spring 2025 (Karina Gelis Cadena); a short bio can be found in the newsletter. We had also hired a tenure track faculty member […]
KARINA GELIS CADENA joined the Department of Statistics as a lecturer in Fall 2025. She earned her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Florida, where her research focused on developing nonparametric methods for survival analyses, with applications to omics and cardiovascular health data. Prior to that, she taught mathematics and statistics at the University […]
The 2025 lecturer was Francesca Dominici from Harvard University. Francesca Dominici, Ph.D. is the director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative at Harvard University and the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2024, she made the TIME100 Health list for 2024: […]
The title of the 2025 workshop was Computational Methods in Bayesian Statistics. It was co-organized by Professors Doss and Duan. Details can be found at: https://stat.ufl.edu/winter-workshop/2025-computational-methods-in-bayesian-statistics/
This has been a busy year providing experiential learning opportunities for our undergraduates. First, STA 4950, Capstone in Statistics and Data Science, was officially approved by the university and is offered as an approved elective for all majors and statistics minors in the department. STA 4950 is a teamwork-based culminating experience that synthesizes methods and […]
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