Stat Pack Spotlight

Our faculty and students continue to conduct excellent research. Most recently, the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK awarded Prof. Subhashis Ghoshal with the Distinguished Rothschild Visiting Fellowship (one of the two most prestigious Fellowships offered by the Institute). Ghoshal will visit the institute during Summer 2025 where he will take part in the program, Representing, calibrating & leveraging prediction uncertainty from statistics to machine learning. Meanwhile, it has been announced that several NCSU students will be recognized at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, including the following:

• Kevin Collins (Erin Schliep, advisor) was a winner of the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics and the Environment 2025 Student Paper Competition. He will be presenting his work, “Model-based decomposition of spatially varying temporal shifts in seasonal streamflow profiles across north temperate US Rivers”, in a special topic-contributed session.
• Elliot Meceda (Brian Reich and Emily Hector, advisors) has also been named a winner of the ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment Section student paper competition for his paper on Simulation-Based Inference.
• Yang Xu’s (Wenbin Lu and Rui Song, advisors) work, “Linear contextual bandits with interference”, was selected for the ASA Business and Economic Statistics Section’s Student Paper Award. 
• Naomi Giertych (Jon Williams and Sujit Ghosh, advisors) is a finalist for the ASA Astrostatistics Interest Group 2025 Student Paper Competition for her work, “Conformal Prediction for Astronomy Data with Measurement Error”. In this case, the winner (chosen from among the finalists) is announced at the conclusion of their session.

Congratulations to all!