The official BlueSky feed for the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at @sc.edu .https://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mx53jtdvkk2hThis week's speaker is Dr. Andrew Chen from MUSC. He will visit us on Thursday and present his work on MRI data.05 Oct 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx53jtdvkk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mwt4dwdjks2oDr. Zhang is now visiting us! All are welcome to his talk at LeConte! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwt4dwdjks2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mwm4syb6cs2sCongratulations to our graduate student, Xiuchuan Liu, and his advisor Prof. Xianzheng Huang! Their paper, "Robust Classification with Feature Selection Using Non-Gaussian Data" is accepted by Statistica Sinica!🎊🎉🙌28 Sep 2026 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwm4syb6cs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mwlgfmtvlk2yOur speaker on 10/1 is Dr. Zhengwu Zhang from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will present his work in structural connectivity on this Thursday!28 Sep 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlgfmtvlk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mwb7ouuwqk2pDr. Jeon is with us now. She will present her work at LeConte this afternoon. See you there! [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Sep 2026 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwb7ouuwqk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mw4vlyg3ts2qCongratulations to our graduate students, Brian Harrold, Tyler Rielly, Md. Ariful Islam Sanim, and Xunan Yang as the 2025-2026 Graduate Student Teaching Award Recipients! https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/cte/about/news/2026/untitled.php22 Sep 2026 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4vlyg3ts2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mw4uykttks2eCongratulations to Dr. Shuqi Song for defending her Ph.D. dissertation “Regression Analysis of Group-tested Current Status Data and Pooled Measurement Data” supervised by Dr. Lianming Wang. She will join the Vertex Pharmaceuticals as a senior biostatistician!22 Sep 2026 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4uykttks2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mvxmz5hkic2iOur next speaker is Dr. Minjeong Jeon from the Department of Education at University of California, Los Angeles. She will give a talk on the coming Thursday! See you at LeConte.20 Sep 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxmz5hkic2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mvptbib7ks2aDr. Kang is visiting us! She will give a talk later today. All are welcome! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvptbib7ks2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mvavzrlqs226Our next colloquium speaker is Dr. Lulu Kang from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She will visit us next week. See you at her talk on 9/17!11 Sep 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvavzrlqs226https://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3muldjvaxas2pCongrats to our alumni Qingyang Liu (PhD ’23), Shijie Wang (PhD ’24), and their co-authors Ray Bai and Dipankar Bandyopadhyay! Their paper “A monotone single-index modal regression powered by deep neural networks for non-Gaussian periodontal data” was accepted by Biostatistics!03 Sep 2026 01:50 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3muldjvaxas2phttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mu5wnae5ns2zProfessor Rebecca Killick will visit us from Clemson soon! She will meet with our faculty and students and give a talk about her work on changepoint analysis this coming Thursday (9/3)! Looking forward to meeting her and you!28 Aug 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5wnae5ns2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mu3btjk6cc2iWe had a great department picnic last Saturday! It was wonderful to gather in a more relaxed setting with colleagues, family members, and significant others—and especially to welcome our new colleagues and graduate students to the department! 🌳☀️27 Aug 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3btjk6cc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mu2ztfatek2zDr. Ignatiadis is visiting us! He will give a talk this afternoon. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2ztfatek2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mtjixyg2ws2oWelcome back! We will have our first colloquium on next Thursday (8/27) afternoon. Dr. Nikos Ignatiadis will visit us from the University of Chicago. All are welcome!20 Aug 2026 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjixyg2ws2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mtc2i5bz722jCongratulations to Dr. William Consagra and his co-authors! Their paper, "ENCORE: Fast geometric framework for aligning brain structural connectivity on cortical manifolds," has been accepted by Medical Image Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2026.10424217 Aug 2026 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtc2i5bz722jhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mshhw2hfxc2zCongratulations to our instructor Dr. David Weaver, named “Best Professor – College of Arts and Sciences” in Best of Carolina 2026! 🎉 This student- and university community-voted recognition celebrates the impact Dr. Weaver makes in the classroom. Well deserved! 👏📊07 Aug 2026 02:07 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshhw2hfxc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3msdohh5ka22jWe had a wonderful USC Department of Statistics dinner at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2026 with alumni, students, faculty, and family. Grateful for an evening of great conversations, new connections, and reconnecting with old friends. Thanks to everyone who joined us!05 Aug 2026 13:54 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdohh5ka22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mquebazhws2q🎉 Congratulations to our faculty on receiving an NSF DMS award for “Collaborative Research: Generative Bootstrapping Methods for Massive Dependent Data,” with PIs Dr. Ting Fung Ma (University of South Carolina) and Dr. Ray Bai (George Mason University)!🎊👏17 Jul 2026 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mquebazhws2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mqktvzrnac2dCongratulations to Dr. Jiasong Duan for defending his Ph.D. dissertation “Variable Selection and Network Analysis for Non-Gaussian Data” supervised by Dr. Xianzheng Huang. He will join the University of Virginia, Department of Genome Sciences as a postdoctoral research associate!13 Jul 2026 23:29 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqktvzrnac2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mq7rp7du3k2cThe paper is now online http://doi.org/10.1214/26-EJS2550 ! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jul 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7rp7du3k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mpgq6wftok2eOur graduate students, Fanghua Chen and Sehun An, presented their work at the 2026 International Chinese Statistical Association China Conference in Shenzhen, China! Great job, Fanghua and Sehun!29 Jun 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgq6wftok2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mp355au6i225The current month's issue of Amstat News, the main news publication of the American Statistical Association, has published an article on our department's 40th Anniversary Conference that was held in March! Check out the article here: https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2026/06/01/40scs/25 Jun 2026 00:07 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp355au6i225https://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3moxjpha5n22oCongratulations to our alumnus, Dr. Taeho Kim, Ph.D. 19 assistant professor at Lehigh University, Prof. Edsel Pena, and their co-authors! Their paper, "Maximum Agreement Linear Predictors" is accepted by Electronic Journal of Statistics!23 Jun 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxjpha5n22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mnxbazcdgs25Our faculty Dr. Yuexuan Wu and graduate students, Brian Harrold, Md. Ariful Islam Sanim, Xunan Yang, Yanyan Emma Zhan, and Lu Zhou have a great time at the Southern Regional Council on Statistics Summer Research Conference at Pensacola, FL! 🏖️🩴🧑‍🏫10 Jun 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnxbazcdgs25https://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mnkcrhjgxk24Congratulations to our recent graduate, Dr. Tong Shan, and Prof. David Hitchcock! Their paper, "Clustering functional data using a predictive likelihood," is accepted by the Journal of the Korean Statistical Society! Check out that paper at https://doi.org/10.1007/s42952-026-00376-0.05 Jun 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkcrhjgxk24https://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mma2khf6cs2oCongratulations to our recent graduate, Dr. Zhixin Chen, and Prof. Lianming Wang! Their paper, "Regression analysis of misclassified current status data with potentially unknown test accuracy," is accepted by Statistical Methods in Medical Research!19 May 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mma2khf6cs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mm5ly6dewc2eCongratulations to Dr. Jake Yizhou Cai on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation, supervised by Dr. Ting Fung Ma! Jake will join the Department of Mathematics at Texas State University in the coming fall semester as an assistant professor. 🎉 🎊👏🏼18 May 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5ly6dewc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mlwknya3ms2yCongratulations to our senior instructor Amanda Murphy for being awarded a 2026-2027 McCausland College of Arts and Sciences NCFDD Teaching Toolkit Fellowship!🎉🎉🎉16 May 2026 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwknya3ms2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/uofscstatistics.bsky.social/post/3mlqllbntks2kCongratulations to our alumnus, Dr. Chuan-Fa Tang, Ph.D. 17 associate professor at University of Texas, Dallas, and Prof. Joshua Tebbs! Their paper, "Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Positive Quadrant Dependence," is accepted by International Statistical Review! https://doi.org/10.1111/insr.7003913 May 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:6bu2ssfv4w3or5chu342llcq/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqllbntks2k