This program has a rich tradition of creating groundbreaking statistical methods and conducting innovative applied statistics, bridging theory and practice, supporting knowledge discovery and decision-making through meaningful data extraction and analysis. Statistics is an indispensable pillar of modern science, including data science and artificial intelligence.
You can take advantage of the department's flexible research options and work with your faculty of choice. You can leverage cross-department collaboration with biology, chemistry, medical sciences, economics, computer science, government, and public health to pursue your intellectual interests. You will become part of a close-knit, friendly department that offers many extra learning opportunities both inside and outside the program.
Examples of student projects include developing statistical methods to forecast infectious diseases from online search data, delineating causality from association, building a software package for evaluating redistricting plans in 50 states, leveraging machine learning algorithms for model free inference, and employing a randomization-based inference framework to study peer effects.
Graduates have secured faculty positions in institutions, such as Stanford University; University of Pennsylvania; University of California, Berkeley; Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University; Columbia University; and Georgia Institute of Technology. Others have begun careers at organizations such as Google, Apple, Etsy, Citadel, and the Boston Red Sox.
Additional information on the graduate program is available from the Department of Statistics and requirements for the degree are detailed in GSAS Policies.