UofSC Statistics Department

Dr. Bartroff is visiting us! He will give a talk later today!

Dr. Jay Bartroff will visit us from UT-Austin next week. He will give a talk on the coming Thursday (2/19). All are welcome!

We look forward to welcoming you! Book your hotel room for the event at a special rate, available here on an exclusive basis.

Update on our 40th Anniversary Conference on 3/27-28! Here is a link for booking rooms at the Graduate Hotel by 2/13:

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If you'd like to share your memories and thoughts, please fill out through:

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✨✨✨Alumnus spotlight ✨✨✨

Our alumnus, Dr. Qingyang Liu (PhD 2023), will join Wake Forest University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Statistics.

Congratulations Qingyang! We are so proud of you. 🎉🎊👏

Alumni Update Form for 40th Anniversary Conference

We'll have a 40th Anniversary celebration with a conference at Columbia on 3/27-28 with a mixer, talks, and a banquet!
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We'd love to get an update, share your memories and thoughts about us, and join the conference (more details for registration!

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Dr. Gemma Moran will give a talk today!

Congratulations to Dr. Beidi Qiang (PhD '17) and Prof. Edsel Pena @edsel_pena ! Their paper "System reliability estimation via shrinkage" was accepted by Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering! 🥳 🪘

Check out the paper from
doi.org/10.1088/3050-2454/ae123a

Congratulations to Dr. Iris Lin, our PhD graduate Dr. Yun Yang, and their co-authors! Their paper “Diagnostic Accuracy Analysis for Multiple Raters Using Probit Hierarchical Model for Ordinal Ratings” has been accepted by Statistical Methods in Medical Research!🥳🪘

This week, we will have Dr. Gemma Moran visiting us from Rutgers. She will give a talk on this Thursday. All are welcome!

Dr. Wu is visiting us! See you at his talk.

‪We are happy to have Dr. Yichao Wu visiting us from the University of Illinois Chicago. He will give a talk about general partially linear model on this Thursday, 11/13! Looking forward to learning more from him!

Dr. Josephs is visiting us! He will give a talk in today afternoon.

Dr. Nathaniel Josephs is our speaker this week. He will visit us and give a talk on 11/6 afternoon!

Looking forward to meeting him!

Dr. Zhang will give her talk later today!

This week's colloquium, we have Dr. Tingting Zhang from the University of Pittsburgh. She will give a talk on Thu 10/30, 2:50-3:50 at LeConte 224.

Looking forward to having her visit us!

Big smiles from our faculty with Cocky at the naming event of the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences!

Nonparametric regression for a circular response with error-in-covariate This study considers regression analysis of a circular response with an error-prone linear covariate. Starting with an existing estimator of the circular regression function that assumes error-free covariate, three approaches are proposed to revise this estimator, leading to three nonparametric estimators for the circular regression function accounting for measurement error. The proposed estimators are intrinsically connected through some deconvoluting operator that is exploited differently in different estimators. Moreover, a new bandwidth selection method is developed that is more computationally efficient than an existing method well-received in the context of tuning parameter selection in the presence of measurement error. The efficacy of these new estimators and their relative strengths are demonstrated through a thorough investigation of their asymptotic properties and extensive empirical study of their finite-sample performance.

Check out the recent paper, Nonparametric regression for a circular response with error-in-covariate, on the Electronic Journal of Statistics, by our PhD graduate Nicholas Woolsey and his advisor Dr. Xianzheng Huang.

doi.org/10.1214/25-E...

We are happy to have Dr. Jason Klusowski visiting us. He will give a talk about unlabeled data on this Thursday, 10/16! Looking forward to hearing more from him!

Dr. Ernst is visiting us! Welcome to join his talk this afternoon.

Dr. Philip Ernst, Chair of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
the Imperial College of London's Department of Mathematics, will visit us on Tuesday (10/14) and give colloquium talk at 2:50 p.m.

All are welcome to join!

Congratulations to Dr. Ting Fung Ma and his co-authors! Their paper "A generalization error bound of physics-informed neural networks for ecological diffusion models" has been accepted by Stat!🥳🪘

Our alumnus, Dr. Seungchul Baek, will visit us this week!

Please feel free to attend his talk on 9/25 Thursday.

Professor Wikle is visiting us!

We are delighted to have Professor Christopher Wikle visiting us. He will give a talk about spatial extremes on 9/18!

Looking forward to hearing more from him!

New statistical tool enhances prediction accuracy An international team of mathematicians, led by Lehigh University statistician Taeho Kim, has introduced an innovative method that could significantly improve how scientists make predictions, especial...

An interview of our alumnus Dr. Taeho Kim (PhD 19) about his work with Dr. Edsel Pena.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

The paper is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2304.04221!

Dr. Cong Ma will give a colloquium talk on 9/11 (Thursday) at 2:50 p.m.

All are welcome to join!

We are looking forward to having the colloquium by Dr. Anru Zhang tomorrow!

Dr. Anru_Zhang will give a colloquium talk on 9/4 (Thursday) at 2:50 p.m. All are welcome!

Instructor of Statistics

Our department is also a full time, professional-track position at the rank of Instructor to begin August 16, 2026!

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/193...

Assistant Professor of Statistics

We have ONE more tenure track position for Fall 2026! Welcome to apply!

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/193...