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Dissertation defense
Marisa Blackman presents "Statistical Methods for Population Pharmacokinetic Model Evaluation, Individualized Prediction, and Automated Model Development" on Friday, September 25, at 11 am Central Time, in the 10th floor conference room at 2525 West End Avenue and online
IDWSDS 2026
International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science is October 6. The day's festivities will include a free 24-hour conference - presenters include several alumnae (Sarah Lotspeich, Lucy D'Agostino McGowan, and Jamie Joseph), plus current student Ashley Mullan.
Admissions info session
Join us on Thursday, October 8, at 6 p.m. Central Time, for information and insights on applying to our MS and PhD programs, in a Zoom session with graduate faculty leaders. The deadline to apply for Fall 2027 admission is December 1, 2026.
WSDS 2026
The 2026 Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference (October 28-30) features several department members and alumni on the program, including PhD students Ashley Mullan and Alexis Fleming Schwartz, research associate professor Laurie Samuels, and alumnae Sarah Lotspeich (PhD 2021) and Jamie Joseph (PhD 2024).
Recent News
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August graduation: Lan Shi
Dr. Shi defended her dissertation in June and is now a statistician at Genentech. -
Siyuan Ma receives NIH award for early-stage investigators
The $2.2 million award is for advancing statistical methods for next-generation microbiome data analytics. -
Vanderbilt students and alumni at JSM2026
Our graduate program was well represented at the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston, with students, faculty, staff, and alumni delivering talks ... -
Zhuohui Liang is lead author of MeLD AI model to simulate people living with HIV
The June 22 Nature Communications paper was featured in Vanderbilt Health News on June 30, 2026, with professors Brad Malin and Bryan Shepherd as corr ...
