On a spring afternoon in the Program in Quantitative Genomics Seminar at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor Xihong Lin felt a buzz in her pocket.  Silencing the pesky phone, she was surprised to see a text saying that she was now a member of the National Academy of Sciences.  The reality of this only set in when the official announcement was released at 3:00 pm and phone calls and emails started rolling in – work would have to be on pause for the day.

After completing his PhD at Stanford University in 2022 and a postdoc position at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton and at Amazon, Dr. Mark Sellke has joined the Department of Statistics in July 2023 as an Assistant Professor.  To introduce Prof. Sellke to the department, we conducted the following interview (revised and excerpted) in which Mark shares about his research interests, middle school...

During a lunch at the University of Maryland with the biostatistician Marvin Zelen, David (“Dave”) Harrington discussed his thesis and future goals with Zelen, who quipped, “If you don’t come to Buffalo to work in my group, you won’t amount to anything!”  After spending 6 years on the faculty of the University of Virginia, Harrington began his career as a biostatistician by joining Zelen’s group in 1984, which had moved to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

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Earlier this year, we launched a series featuring women scholars in our department in honor of the inaugural International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science, a day introduced by the Caucus for Women in Statistics, the Portuguese Statistical Society, and the American Statistical Association to celebrate the research contributions of women statisticians and data scientists around the world.  Our interviews with our...