Colorado State University

The Department of Statistics at Colorado State University invites applications for two Administrative Professional Research Associate statistical and/or data science collaborator positions in the Graybill Statistics & Data Science Laboratory within the Department of Statistics.

For the Administrative Professional Research Associate II position, click here.

For the Administrative Professional Research Associate III position, click here.

Preferred qualifications include: Three years of experience in applied/collaborative statistics and/or data science; Demonstrated experience to communicate, written and orally, technical topics to non-technical audiences; and collaborative proposal writing experience, especially related to study design and proposed analysis. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but for full consideration, materials should be submitted by March 26, 2023. CSU is an EO/EA/AA employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates.

Statistics PhD Students, Danielle Demateis, Seongwon Im, and Troy Wixson, presented their research at the 2022 Graduate Student Showcase (GRADSHOW). Danielle’s work, titled “Distributed Lag Interaction Model: Birth Weight and Air Pollution”, studies the effect of air pollution exposure during pregnancy on birth weight. Seongwon’s work, titled “Tree Distributed Lag Mixture Model for Zero-inflated Count Data: Estimating the impact of Wildfire smoke and COVID-19 on mortality in Colorado”, studies the exposure and interaction effects of wildfire smoke and COVID-19 on mortality. Troy’s work, “Attribution of Seasonal Wildfire Risk to Changes in Climate”, models the extreme seasonal risk of wildfire and studies the fire weather observed in the Grand Lake area of Colorado in 2020. Statistics Associate Professor, Ander Wilson, served as a judge on the Awards Committee.
Danielle, Seongwon, and Troy enjoyed presenting at the GRADSHOW, because it was good practice to explain their work to people from different disciplines at both high and low levels of detail. Also, they commented that the GRADSHOW provided an opportunity for them to connect with peers and faculty across departments at CSU, which may lead to collaborations and helps them see how statistics is used across campus.

The College of Natural Science has awarded Dr. Josh Keller with its prestigious Early Career Teaching and Mentoring Award.  An Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, Dr. Keller was recognized for his remarkable record of course innovation and development, his leadership in inclusive excellence, and his exemplary mentorship of graduate and undergraduate students in their research endeavors. The Department of Statistics is grateful for Dr. Keller’s dedication and commitment to excellence in education and mentorship, and congratulates him for this well-deserved recognition.

The Statistics Department is excited about the start of the ’22-’23 academic year.  The Department welcomed 12 new students into its MS/PhD program, added a new class in the Master’s of Applied Statistics Program, and met our new Statistics Undergraduates at Ram Welcome.  Classes start Monday, August 23. Welcome to all the new Rams!

The new Statistics MS/PhD students 

This summer 10 Statistics and Data Science undergraduates gained valuable experience by participating in research projects. More than 30 students applied for paid positions sponsored by the College of Natural Sciences and the Statistics department. Students were supervised by faculty members Haonan Wang, Josh Keller, Ben Prytherch and Ann Hess. Statistical methods included data wrangling, visualization, linear and logistic regression, mixed models, principal components analysis, type M errors and simulation. Students presented their work to the department on June 30. They will submit posters to Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity (CURC) in Spring 2023.

ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 2022) – Colorado State University student Addison D. Adams joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) as a summer associate in the Operational Evaluation Division of IDA’s Systems and Analyses Center. Adams is a graduate student at Colorado State working towards his doctoral degree in statistics. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Utah Valley University in 2019. IDA is a nonprofit corporation that operates three federally funded research and development
centers in the public interest. IDA answers the most challenging U.S. security and science policy questions with objective analysis leveraging extraordinary scientific, technical and analytic expertise.