The Statistics Graduate Student Association is the organization that represents the graduate students in the Dr. Bing Zhang Department of Statistics. The SGSA plans events to promote the professional development and facilitate a more social community among graduate students. Events vary from year-to-year based on current students’ interests. However, the data science competition is usually held yearly.

2023-2024 officers

President: Daniel Tuyisenge

Co-Vice Presidents: Bridget Carroll and Zella Christensen

Secretary: Adrianne Caudill

Treasurer: Yang Li

Social Affairs Rep.: Calisse Burand

Historian: Abigail Leonhard

Data Science Competition

Each spring, the SGSA along with the department holds a data science competition. This event is geared towards first-year students so they can get practice analyzing real datasets. Many students use this project as an example to talk about in job or internship interviews. Recent winner, sample datasets and prompts can be found here.

Professional Development

Events to allow for professional development and networking are typically held each year.

Recent professional development events include:

• talking with alumni about their graduate school and work experience, leading to internship interviews and offers
• talking with HR personnel that have open internship opportunities
• talking with current students about their internship opportunities
• hearing from faculty about their research in the department

Social Events

Graduate school is not all work and no play. We are always looking for new social events. There is usually food nearby at our social events.

Recent social events include:

• Annual Bowling Event
• Student Board Game Day
• Fancy Desserts and Coffee