Leadership Team
Kirsten Eilertson
Piotr Kokoszka
Dan Cooley
Ben Prytherch
Awards & Scholarships Committee
The primary responsibility of this committee is to nominate faculty and students for external, university, college and departmental awards.
Ann Hess (Chair)
Piotr Kokoszka
Dan Cooley
Communications
The committee is primarily responsible for updating the department website and social network accounts.
Ander Wilson (Chair)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
The committee considers issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion in the statistics department. It interfaces with the college, university, and professional organizations on DEI initiatives and activities.
Kayleigh Keller (Chair)
Ben Shaby
Yawen Guan
Graduate Committee
Graduate Committee handles all issues related to the MS/PhD program, except admissions and issues that require vote of the whole graduate faculty.
Dan Cooley (Chair)
Tianying Wang
Ander Wilson
Yunpeng Zhao
MAS and Applied Graduate Statistics Committee
The committee is concerned with the MAS program as well as online and campus-wide applied statistics education offered to non-statistics graduate students, including graduate certificates.
Kirsten Eilertson (Chair)
Yunpeng Zhao
Dongzhou Huang
Undergraduate Committee
The Committee handles all issues related to the undergraduate program (majors and minors in Statistics and Data Science, excluding service courses) that do not require vote of all faculty.
Piotr Kokoszka (Chair)
Kayleigh Keller
Ben Prytherch
Seminars
This committee organizes departmental seminars, and seeks input from faculty and PhD students on potential seminar speakers.
Yunpeng Zhao
Tianying Wang
