Xinlian won 2020 Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award
Thursday, Apr 23, 2020
Xinlian won 2020 Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award. We are so incredibly proud of Her. Congratulations!
Cheng won 2019 ASA Student Paper Award of the Section on Nonparametric Statistics.
Friday, Apr 26, 2019
Congratulations to Cheng Meng for his paper has been selected as one of the winners of this year’s ASA student paper competition, from the Section on Nonparametric Statistics. We are so incredibly proud of him. Congratulations again!
Xinlian won 2019 Best Senior PhD Award.
Wednesday, Apr 10, 2019
Xinlian Zhang received the 2019 Best Senior PhD Award. We are so incredibly proud of Her. Congratulations!
Jinyang received a 2019 Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant.
Friday, Apr 5, 2019
Jinyang Chen received the 2019 Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant. The Graduate School established this program as part of its strategic initiative to support innovation and interdisciplinary in the research being conducted by doctoral students. We are so incredibly proud of him. Congratulations!
Xiaoxiao won 2019 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award.
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2019
Xiaoxiao Sun has been selected to receive the 2019 Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award in Mathematical and Physical Sciences from the Graduate School. We are so incredibly proud of him. Congratulations!
Rui won 2019 JSM Best Student Paper Award.
Friday, Jan 18, 2019
Congratulations to Rui Xie on his paper which has been selected as one of the winners of this JSM best student paper award. We are so incredibly proud of him. Congratulations again!
Rui won 2018 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium Student Award.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Congratulations to Rui Xie on his paper which has been selected as one of the winners of this year’s ICSA student paper competition. We are so incredibly proud of him. Congratulations again! Click here to read more.
Xinlian won 2018 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium Student Award.
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Congratulations to Xinlian Zhang on her paper which has been selected as one of the winners of this year’s ICSA student paper competition. We are so incredibly proud of her. Congratulations again! Click here to read more.
BDAL Students Receive Prestigious Awards from the Department of Statistics and Graduate School.
Friday, April 13, 2018
Congratulations to Ye Wang, Xin Xing, and Xinlian Zhang! Ye received the Best Teaching Assistant Award, Xin received the Best Senior Student Award, and Xinlian received the Dissertation Completion Award! We are so incredibly proud of them. Congratulations again!
Ye receiving Best TA Award.
Xin receiving the Best Senior Student Award from Last Award winner Xiaoxiao.
Monday, January 22, 2018
A new computational tool developed by Professor Wenxuan Zhong and her team at the University of Georgia shows promise for further understanding and identifying the complicated makeup of the microbiome. With the creation of this new big data tool, researchers will help identify differences in patterns of microbes that may lead to a better understanding of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity.
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Xiaoxiao Sun Receives Award from ASA Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Student Paper Competition
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Congratulations to Xiaoxiao Sun on his paper, “An asympirical smoothing parameters selection approach for SS-ANOVA models in large samples”, which has been selected as one of the winners of this year’s ASA student paper competition, from the Section on Statistical Computing. We are so incredibly proud of him. Congratulations again!
Rui Xie received the Best Poster Award at the Georgia Statistics Day 2017
Rui Xie, Ph.D. Graduate Student and BDAL Research Assistant, was chosen to receive the Best Poster Award for his poster titled, “Online Sequential Leveraging Sampling Method for Streaming Time Series Data” at the Georgia Statistics Day 2017 held at Emory University on October 9, 2017.
Professor Wenxuan Zhong’s Research, New Statistics for Smelling Out Disease, was Featured in Scientia.
Cutting-edge scientific techniques are generating a wealth of details about biological systems. This information could enable the rapid detection of disease and toxic substances, and provide insights into the mechanisms behind complex diseases. However, teasing out elusive signals in these biochemical datasets can be complicated, so statistician Professor Wenxuan Zhong and her team at the University of Georgia are developing new numerical methods to unlock their secrets.
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Xin Xing uses advanced DNA sequencing technology to develop high-performance computation algorithms on the human microbiome – the collection of the many diverse types of micro-organisms that occupy almost every part of the human body. Xing’s algorithm has been applied to two real-world data sets: one relating to type-2 diabetes patients and another to inflammatory bowel disease patients. The algorithm successfully identified more than 2,000 microbial species, of which less than 10 percent have reference genomes available. In total, eight pathogenic microbial species have been identified by the algorithm. This includes seven unknown species and one known species related to inflammatory bowel disease (Bateroides fragilis).
Congratulations!
Xiaoxiao Sun won the Best Senior Student Awards
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Congratulations to Xiaoxiao Sun on his excellent achievements within our Big Data Analytics Lab and the Department of Statistics! He was selected as the best Senior Student. We are so incredibly proud of him. Congratulations again!
2017 Outstanding Teaching Award Winners
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Each year the Center for Teaching and Learning administers the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction. These awards are given to the best student teachers who show remarkable guidance and passion for teaching and learning. This year the Big Data Analytics Lab had two of our students recognized.
Please join me in congratulating Rui Xie, and Jingyi Zhang on their amazing accomplishment! We are so proud to have them as part of our lab.
Dr. Wenxuan Zhong and Xin Xing of the University of Georgia used Bridges to assemble 378 billion base pairs of bacterial DNA
Bridges, PSC’s new National Science Foundation-funded computing system, has seen its first month of use by the national scientific community. In that short time, Wenxuan Zhong and Xin Xing used Bridges to assemble 378 billion base pairs of bacterial DNA from the intestines of healthy patients and those with diabetes. The team is now using Bridges to test a new statistical method on the sequence data to identify critical differences in gut microbes associated with diabetes.
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Cheng Meng Won Gold Medal in Men’s 50 m Backstroke
At the 9th National Games of College Students in China, Cheng Meng won the gold medal in Men’s 50-meter backstroke. Cheng became the first student at Tsinghua University who was nominated as the National Master in swimming.
Xinlian Zhang was awarded the Best Beginning Ph.D. student by the Department of Statistics in 2016
The Best Beginning Ph.D. student is awarded annually to one starting Ph.D. student in the department. The awardee is selected based on faculty member nomination, followed by a detailed evaluation of CV, transcript, TA performance, etc. We are proud of you, Xinlian!
Yiwen Liu won the Best UGA Poster Award for the 2015 GA Statistics Day
Georgia Statistics Day is to promote interdisciplinary research within the flagship institutions of the state of Georgia. This conference will enable junior researchers in the Southeast region of the United States, including graduate students, to present their work, to see state-of-the-art developments in research on statistics and related scientific areas, and interact with some of the key players in the area. Georgia Statistics Day puts emphasis on mentoring junior researchers and on the interaction between senior and junior researchers.2015 Georgia Statistics Day, which was hosted by the University of Georgia on October 30, 2015. Professor Robert Tibshirani was the first keynote speaker of this annual event. Congratulations to Yiwen!
Xin Xing is awarded the Best Beginning Ph.D. student by the Department of Statistics in 2015!
The Best Beginning Ph.D. student is awarded annually to one starting Ph.D. student in the department. The awardee is selected based on faculty member nomination, followed by a detailed and broad evaluation of CV, transcript, TA performance, etc.
Congratulations to Xin!
Dr. WENXUAN ZHONG RECEIVES $1.44 MILLION NIH GRANT
DNA methylation has been newly discovered as a key controller in gene transcription. Aberrant DNA methylation changes can cause a number of human diseases such as developmental diseases (ICF syndrome, Prader-Willi, and Angelman syndromes, etc), aging related diseases (i.e. Alzheimer’s disease), heart disease, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases. Moreover, a large amount of evidence implicated that DNA methylation is a key player in cancer development. Dr. Zhong will develop a suite of statistical models to broaden our understanding of how methylation patterns are established and maintained during normal development and under different environmental conditions.
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