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On Wednesday, September 18, 2024, these students and faculty members were recognized at an all-department meeting for their achievements: Left to right: Megan Jones, Kaidi Kang, Lisa Levoir, Jonathan Schildcrout, Rameela Raman   Megan Jones was named Distinguished Teaching Assistant, in recognition of excellence in teaching and dedication to peer… Read More

We are delighted to welcome five new students to our doctoral program this fall. Left to right, top row: Kun Bai, Xin Gai, Haoyue Li. Bottom row: Ashley Mullan, Ningkun Zhou Kun Bai is a new student in our PhD program, but he is not new to our department, having… Read More

ETA 10/7/2025: View a recording of the session. Interested in earning a master’s or doctoral degree in biostatistics? Join us on Thursday, October 3, at 6 p.m. Central Time for our virtual info session on submitting your application to Vanderbilt University. Hear from Simon Vandekar, director of graduate… Read More

On September 4, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) featured the statistical software package GammaGateR on the News page for its Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, with the headline “GammaGateR Helps Decipher Imaging Data.” See our June 9 post for details about the paper announcing GammaGateR… Read More

We are delighted to welcome seven new students to our master’s degree program this fall. Left to right, top row: Camila Carmona, Xuexin Li, Yiqing Pan, Zongyue Teng. Bottom row: Xin Wu, Haozheng Xu, Seth Young   Camila Carmona earned associate degrees in mathematics, economics, and philosophy at Santa Rosa… Read More

Each year, members of our faculty participate in lightning talks as an opportunity to share their research interests, current projects, and potential collaboration opportunities with students in our graduate program. These presentations help students explore different avenues of investigation and brainstorm potential projects that can contribute to their theses or… Read More

Congratulations to PhD candidate Siwei Zhang, alumnus Nicholas Strayer (PhD 2020; now at Posit), senior biostatistician Yajing Li, and assistant professor Yaomin Xu on the publication of “PheMIME: an interactive web app and knowledge base for phenome-wide, multi-institutional multimorbidity analysis” in the Journal of the American… Read More

Left to right: top, Jamie Joseph, Julia Thome, Shengxin Tu; bottom, Megan Hall, Julia Whitman We are thrilled to celebrate the graduations of five students in our program. Click their names for more information. Dissertations and theses will be viewable at Vanderbilt’s Institutional Repository later this… Read More

The annual Joint Statistical Meetings draw more than five thousand attendees from over fifty countries every year. The 2024 edition of this conference is taking place in Portland, Oregon, with more than two dozen department members and alumni making the trip to Rose City to discuss “Statistics and Data Science:… Read More

Congratulations to Yuqi Tian (PhD 2022), former associate professor Chun Li (now at University of Southern California), soon-to-graduate doctoral candidate Shengxin Tu, Nathan T. James (PhD 2022), and professors Frank Harrell and Bryan Shepherd on the publication of “Addressing Multiple Detection Limits with Semiparametric Cumulative Probability Models” in Journal… Read More