Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: The Winner’s Curse in Data-Driven Decision Making: Evidence and Solutions
Sikun Xu, PhD Candidate in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
Past Events
Labor Day 2026 - no classes
Open House: New 4+1 Master's with Concentration in Applied Data Science
Umrath Lounge
Independence Day Holiday Observed 2026 - no classes
Memorial Day Holiday 2026 - no classes
First Summer Class Session Begins - Summer 2026
Commencement 2026
Reading Days and Finals, Spring 2026
Last Day of Classes, Spring 2026
Spring 2026 Awards & Honors Ceremony
Join the Department of Statistics & Data Science for our annual Awards & Honors Ceremony!
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Master's Thesis Defense: Nonparametric Local Linear Estimation of Spot Volatility Functionals
Ran Hu, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Master's Thesis Defense: Change-Point Detection for Conditional Distributions via Kernel and Neural Network Methods
Weichen Kang, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Dark Matter Walks into a Likelihood Function
Tansu Daylan, Assistant Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Master's Thesis Defense: Environmental Exposure Patterns and Autism Spectrum Disorder in the ABCD Study: A Nonlinear and Factor-Based Analysis
Zhaoxuan Wang, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 431
Master's Thesis Defense: Diffusion-based Conditional Density Estimation for Time Series
Xiaoxuan Zhao, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Lopata 202
Using a Two-Parameter Sensitivity Analysis Framework to Efficiently Combine Randomized and Non-randomized Studies
Bikram Karmakar, Assistant Professor of Statistics at University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar: Covariance Networks for Sparsely Observed Functional Data
Kaustav Paul, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Master's Thesis Defense: Expected Shortfall Regression: A Comparative Study of Three Estimators
Yutian Han, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Statistics and Data Science Programs – Challenges and Opportunities
This event is co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Washington University in St. Louis, Danforth Campus
Master's Thesis Defense: Testing Conditional Distribution Equality Using Generative Models
Zekai Jin, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Entity Ranking Under Iterative Synthetic Data Augmentation
Yiqiao Jin, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
A&S CREATES Presents: Data Science for Air Quality Policy: Setting National Standards and Health Impacts of Power Plants
Corwin Zigler, Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University
Hillman 60
SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series Presents: Digital Humanities and AI Research Opportunities for Students
Claudia Carroll, Postdoctoral Research Associate in TRIADS and Gabi Kiriloff, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Local Variable Selection for High-Dimensional Spatial Data
Debjoy Thakur, Postdoctoral Lecturer in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A/531
Love Data Week 2026
A week of presentations and workshops around all things data, presented by Bernard Becker Medical Library, WashU Libraries, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Digital Intelligence & Innovation (DI2) Accelerator, School of Public Health, Institute for Informatics, Data Science & Biostatistics (I2DB), Brown School Library, Continuing & Professional Studies, and The Graduate Center.
Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Statistical Inference for Complex Data: from Change-Point Detection to Conditional Independence Testing
Yi Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A/531
Graduate Student Seminar: Assumption-Lean Inference for Network-Linked Data
Wei Li, PhD Candidate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
Information Session: MA and Accelerated BA/MA in Statistics
Calling all undergraduate students!
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Integrating literary theory and data science: Assessing GPT-generated synthetic fiction for stylistic accuracy using Random Forests
Claudia Carroll, Postdoctoral Research Associate in TRIADS at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series: Veavi Chang
Calling all Statistics & Data Science Graduate Students and Postdocs!
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar: Adaptive Iterative Hard Thresholding for Online High-dimensional Quantile Regression
Zitian Zhou, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
Graduate Student Seminar: Localized Detection of Authenticity in Mixed Source Texts via Epidemic Change-point Perspective
Subhrajyoty Roy, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
A Signed-Rank Estimator in Nonlinear Regression Models When Covariates and Errors Are Dependent
Hira Koul, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
Graduate Student Seminar: Kernel Bandwidth Selection for Maximum Mean Discrepancy
Hangcen Zou, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series: Professors Mengxin Yu and Chao Cheng
Calling all Statistics & Data Science Graduate Students and Postdocs!
Jolley Hall, Room 531
ASA Statistics Day at Washington University in St. Louis
Organized by ASA St. Louis Chapter
In collaboration with ASA Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA Washington University Student Chapter, and the Washington University Department of Statistics & Data Science
In collaboration with ASA Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA Washington University Student Chapter, and the Washington University Department of Statistics & Data Science
Washington University in St. Louis Danforth Campus, events start in Crow Hall, Room 201
SDS Fall Welcome Party
The Boathouse, Forest Park