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The official account of #UBC Department of Statistics

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📣UBC Statistics grad students—we’re looking for people to lead the Statistics Graduate Student Association (SGSA)! Lead events, build community, and connect with peers. 👥

Interested? ✉️ Contact Mairead at [email protected].

🔎Learn more👉 https://t.co/GT6bVPreSu

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📢Prof. Katie Burak has won this year's New Investigator Presentation Award from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) for her outstanding talk "Authentic Data Science Assessments in a Computer-Based Testing Environment."👏https://t.co/xojhCfDutM

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Another successful Graduation Reception on May 27 in the Department of Statistics!
Big congrats to all grads and award winners 🎓👏
Thanks for celebrating with us and best wishes on your next steps!

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Congratulations 🎉 to Melissa Lee, Associate Professor of Teaching in Statistics, on receiving the Statistical Society of Canada's (SSC) 2025 Early Career Educator Award! https://t.co/7i1asKryWx

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🏅The 2024–2025 Nash Medal in Statistics goes to Chenyue Qian! Chenyue is graduating with a 93%+ average, and two consecutive Petkau Scholarships in 2022 and 2023. He’s off to a Master’s in Statistics next. Congrats, Chenyue! 🎓📈https://t.co/8swvPRnhKC

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Congrats 🥳 to Kenny Chiu and Naitong Chen on receiving the 2024 Statistics Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards! Your passion for teaching is truly inspiring, Kenny and Naitong! https://t.co/xz1i69CbqM

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Huge congratulations to Kenny Chiu, a PhD candidate in Statistics, for receiving the 2024/2025 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award! 🎉

Kenny's passion and dedication have made a real difference at UBC, and we’re so lucky to have him!

Learn more: https://t.co/4NiQJSeTqu

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📍Check out the Vancouver Summer Program at UBC Statistics! Stunning views, hands-on learning, and a vibrant community await. 🌿📊
✨Apply for our July Session by April 25, 2025: https://t.co/ZHuRvwMt1C
#DataScience @ubcvsp #VancouverSummerProgram #ASDa @asdaubc

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Dr. Alexi Rodríguez-Arelis loves teaching statistics in UBC's Master of Data Science program in a way that students can explain big data and convey scientific messages to the public.

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Get to know new Dean Dr. Mark MacLachlan in this Q&A about his journey from small town B.C., his priorities for #UBC Science, his love of Hawaiian shirts, and more ...

https://t.co/6dISDjbN6D

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Congrats to Xiaoting Li, winner of the 2024-25 Marshall Prize! 🏆 A final-year Ph.D. student in Statistics, her research on multivariate extremes has led to publications in top journals with real-world applications. Well done, Xiaoting! 🌟
https://t.co/qZJQGKpf4l

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👏👏 Congrats to Farhan Samir, the 2024 Department of Statistics Award in Data Science recipient! Farhan, a 4th year Ph.D. student in computational linguistics, is advised by Prof. Jian Zhu & holds NSERC scholarships for his future postdoc.

Learn more: https://t.co/ExFkzQbOMD

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Congratulations to Dr. Natalia Nolde @UBCStatistics on being appointed Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Statics of Extremes and Risk. @@NSERC_CRSNG

Read about her research at https://t.co/GbPOEg9QT9

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We're pleased to announce this year's Anona Thorne and Takao Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship recipients! Congrats to STAT Master's students Zachary Lau (on the left in the photo) and Junsong Tang (on the right) for this well-deserved recognition! 👏🎓https://t.co/dCndFB2FYF

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On this #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, statistician Dr. Katie Burak talks about her work with UBC's Girls in Data Science summer camp and teaching in the Master of Data Science program.

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Congrats to Olivia Liu, a senior STAT PhD student, for being awarded the prestigious BC Graduate Scholarship! 🏆 Her innovative research in computational statistics and biology focuses on developing methods to detect patterns in infectious diseases https://t.co/2UdcNkRwY5👩‍🔬💡

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@UBCStatistics Profs. Alexandre Bouchard-Côté & Trevor Campbell, along with collaborators from UdeM & SFU, are leading a CANSSI CRT project on distributed MCMC methods. Funded grad student positions available in Bayesian stats & computational methods: https://t.co/RVWrWopFjT

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Statistical ecologist Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé (@AugerMethe), of @UBCStatistics & @UBCoceans, will be inducted as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada on Friday.

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📢✨ Join us for a virtual info session about UBC Statistics graduate programs on November 19, 2024, from 9 to 10 AM PST! Learn more about our offerings and get your questions answered. Register here: https://t.co/waQxsT6azm We can’t wait to see you there! 🙌🌟

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Want to know what it is like to be a student in the @ubcmds program? Join us for one (or all) of our Alumni Panels in October. Hear directly from alumni about their experience during and after the program. Register here: https://t.co/c32EENCZfT #DataScience