Department of Statistics

FSU team wins global competition to develop next-gen tools, improve public health solutions

Published: | 10:49 am | Posted in: Health & Medicine

A Florida State University team has won an international competition for developing software tools that generate visual aids demonstrating the complex connections among vast amounts of biomedical research. The team of 12, led by FSU Professor of Statistics Jinfeng Zhang, took home first place in the LitCoin Natural Language Processing (NLP) Challenge, organized by the […]

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FSU statistician named 2021 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow

Published: | 1:53 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

A Florida State University faculty member has earned one of the most prestigious awards in the field of statistics. Yiyuan She, a professor and assistant undergraduate adviser in the Department of Statistics, was named a 2021 Fellow by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) along with 40 other researchers from around the world. The IMS is an international professional and […]

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FSU statistics professor named 2020 American Statistical Association Fellow

Published: | 4:01 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

A Florida State University faculty member has been named a 2020 Fellow of the American Statistical Association.  Yiyuan She, professor and assistant undergraduate adviser in the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, was selected by the ASA in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of statistical science.  “Being elected as an ASA fellow […]

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Statistics professor named institute fellow

Published: | 9:36 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

A Florida State University professor has been named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Professor of Statistics Victor Patrangenaru, who joined FSU in 2006, received the honor from the institute, which was founded in the 1930s and is dedicated to fostering the development and dissemination of theory and applications of statistics and probability. […]

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