FENG CHEN has earned the promotion to Associate Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations.
YINGYING FAN has been appointed the IMS-CUP Coordinating Editor for the IMS-Cambridge University Press Textbooks/Monographs Series for a three-year term (2024–2026), while also serving as an IMS Editor of Statistics Surveys (2023–2025). She also has been invited to deliver a Keynote Lecture at the 2024 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) China Conference in June, on the theme “Innovation in Data and Statistical Science: Theory, Methodology, and Practice.”
KATERINA GIANNOUTSOU, PhD received the prestigious 2024 University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, offered by USC and the Center for Excellence in Teaching; her achievements will be recognized at the upcoming 43rd Annual Academic Honors Convocation in April.
ADEL JAVANMARD has two papers accepted for publication by The Annals of Statistics and International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024).
MLADEN KOLAR has earned the full promotion to Professor of Data Sciences and Operations. He also was recently invited to serve as an Associate Editor for The Annals of Statistics (AOS) and has three papers accepted for publication by Electronic Journal of Statistics; International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2024); and Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR 2024).
DARYL ONO’s paper “Recommendations to Internal Auditors Regarding the Auditing and Attestation of Mathematical Programming Models” was recently accepted for an oral presentation at the 2024 Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI) Annual Conference in Santa Rosa, California, in April.
MATTEO SESIA has two forthcoming papers that will be published: “Integrative Conformal P-values for Powerful Out-of-Distribution Testing with Labeled Outliers” will appear in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B and “Conformal Frequency Estimation Using Discrete Sketched Data with Coverage for Distinct Queries” will appear in the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
SOMYA SINGHVI’s paper, “Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-platforms: Evidence from the Field,” has been accepted by Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM).
NICK VYAS has been invited to serve as the Vice Chairman of the 2024 World Trade Week Committee. He will work with Fortune 500 companies and governments to promote supply chain management.
YANFEI ZHOU, PhD received a poster award for her presentation at the inaugural SEEDS (Statistics Empowering Data Science) Conference held on campus, which was hosted by the Statistics area of the department and sponsored by the Marshall iORB Institute.