Oct 2025
Zijun Gao has been selected to present at the Marshall Assistant Professor Research Day in Fall 2025.
Sep 2025
Tianmin Xie, attended the 14th Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications (COPA 2025) and received the Best Poster Award for his recent work on conformal inference for open-set and imbalanced classification.
Sep 2025
Jacob Bien just received a new two-year grant from the Simons Foundation.
Sep 2025
Matteo Sesia has been invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (JRSSB) as an Associate Editor.
Aug 2025
Adel Javanmard has been selected for the 2025–2026 Marshall Leadership Fellows Program.
Jun 2025
Matteo Sesia is joining the Editorial Board of Biometrika as Associate Editor.
Jun 2025
Matteo Sesia just got the Google Research Scholar Award.
May 2025
The school just hosted the 2025 Marshall Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony today. Adel Javanmard got the Undergraduate Golden Apple Award, Mladen Kolkar was named a Marshall Leadership Fellow, and got the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, Jacob Bien got the Dean’s Award for Research Impact, Gourab Mukherjee got the 2025 Greif Research Award and an Awards in Teaching Excellence, and Paromita Dubey was named the Kenneth King Stonier Assistant Professor of Business Administration.
Apr 2025
Dennis Shen was just selected as a recipient of the General Education Teaching Award for his contribution to the GE program during the Fall 2023 through Spring 2024 academic year at USC.
Apr 2025
Paromita Dubey is now serving as an Associate Editor for Sankhya B – The Indian Journal of Statistics.
Apr 2025
Our Jacob Bien has been elected as an American Statistical Association (ASA) Fellow this year.
Mar 2025
Adel Javanmard has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B. Also, he recently presented at the 2025 Marshall Research Fair on Causal Inference with Differentially Private Outcomes.
Jan 2025
Yanfei Zhou has been selected to receive the 2025 University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Jan 2025
Statistics group is hosting the Statistics Empowering Data Science (SEEDS) 2026 conference to kickstart 2025!
Nov 2024
Yingying Fan has been elected a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
Oct 2024
Adel Javanmard has been named the Dean’s Associate Professorship in Business Administration and Matteo Sesia, the Kenneth King Stonier Assistant Professor of Business Administration.
Sep 2024
Dennis Shen has been invited to present at the Marshall Assistant Professor Research Day in Fall 2024.
Sep 2024
Yingying Fan just received an invitation to deliver a distinguished lecture at the 2024 Symposium on Statistics and Risk Management, which will be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 2024.
Sep 2024
Jinchi Lv and Yingying Fan are invited to the Annals of Statistics invited paper session for Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2025 which will be held in Nashville in August 2025 to present their recent work ARK: Robust Knockoffs Inference with Coupling.
Sep 2024
Lorena Martin has been selected as a 2024-2025 Marshall Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Fellow.
Jun 2024
Gourab Mukherjee just won the USC-IISc Collaborative Network Award
Jun 2024
Rashmi Ranjan Bhuyan received three awards from the Marshall PhD office: the Marshall PhD Fellowship, the Marshall Ford Award, and the Marshall Ph.D. Student Outstanding Researcher Award.
May 2024
Gourab Mukherjee was just selected as a recipient of the 2024 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors by Poets&Quants.
May 2024
Jacob Bien was just named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
May 2024
Stats faculty win several awards! Austin Pollok (MSBA)- 2024 Golden Apple Award, Adel Javanmard-Dean’s Award for Research Excellence and Dean’s Associate Professorship in Business Administration, Matteo Sesia- Kenneth King Stonier Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Paromita Dubey - Dr. Douglas Basil Award (Junior Faculty) and Gourab Mukherjee became a Marshall Fellow.
May 2024
Yingying Fan will deliver a keynote lecture at The 2024 International Symposium of Quantitative Economics.
May 2024
Yingying Fan will deliver a keynote lecture at The 2024 International Symposium of Quantitative Economics.
Apr 2024
Yingying will be a Co-Editor for the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES) for a three-year term from 1/2025-12/2027.
Apr 2024
Yingying Fan is a recipient of the 2024 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Faculty, Postdoctoral Scholars, Medical Residents, and Fellows this year!
Mar 2024
Yingying Fan was recently invited to deliver a keynote lecture at The 2024 Annual ASA Pittsburgh Chapter Meeting, which will be held at CMU in April.
Mar 2024
Matteo Sesia was invited to be a Keynote speaker at the [Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications (COPA) 2024 conference] (http://copa-conference.com/), to be held in Milan, Italy in September 2024.
Feb 2024
Mladen Kolar has been selected as a recipient of the 2024 Junior Leo Breiman Award for his outstanding contributions to high-dimensional statistical methodology, probabilistic graphical models and optimization methods.
Jan 2024
Mladen Kolar joins the The Annals of Statistics editorial board.
Jan 2024
Yingying Fan will deliver a Keynote Lecture at the 2024 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) China Conference in June 2024.
Sep 2023
Our PhD student Rashmi won multiple awards, including the first prize at the 2023 Graduate Student Research Conference at NISS, a second prize at the student poster competition in the SNAB 2023 and a travel award for the 2023 IISA annual conference.
Aug 2023
Yingying Fan just presented the IMS Medallion Lecture in JSM 2023.
Aug 2023
Adel Javanmard presented at the Annals of Statistics Special Invited Session at JSM 2023.
Jul 2023
Gourab Mukherjee joins the Statistica Sinica editorial board.
Jul 2023
Jacob Bien has been awarded the Award in Innovation in Statistical Programming and Analytics (AISPAA) by the ASA Statistical Programmers and Analysts Section.
Jul 2023
Paromita Dubey, Yingying Fan, Adel Javanmard, and Jinchi Lv were awarded NSF grants this summer.
May 2023
Jacob Bien and his coauthors Daniela Witten and Lucy Gao were one of two recipients of the inaugural JASA Reproducibility Award for their recent paper.
May 2023
Matteo Sesia won the Dr. Douglas Basil Award for Junior Faculty and Dawn Porter received the Fubon Chair in Teaching Excellence.
Jan 2023
Gourab Mukherjee received the Indian Statistical Association (IISA) 2022 Early Career Award in Statistics.
Nov 2022
Yingying Fan has been appointed as the next IMS Editor of Statistics Surveys, journal sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Bernoulli Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Statistical Society of Canada (each society contributes one Editor).
Sep 2022
Adel Javanmard and Gourab Mukherjee received a faculty research award from Adobe Data Science.