Highlights from the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics graduation ceremony held June 6, 2026. Students were celebrated for their academic accomplishments by faculty advisors and department leadership.

Congratulations to Yifan Lin, recipient of the Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence, and Gabriella Vasconcelos, recipient of Outstanding Doctoral Student, awared by the University of Washington School of Public Health.

Master’s student Yifan Lin developed a tool to help understand Alzheimer's and other diseases. Lin received the Omenn Award for Academic Excellence as a biostatistics master's student at the University of Washington.

University of Washington School of Public Health researcher Kevin Lin, along with his collaborators in the UW School of Medicine, recently received a $75,000 development award from the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) for a project examining this mystery through microglial resilience and data integration.

Three faculty members and one alumni from the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics have been elected 2026 Fellows of the American Statistical Association. Fellows are named for their outstanding contributions to statistical science, leadership, and advancement of the field. 

University of Washington researchers created a framework that helps compare phylogenetic trees when they don't have the same set of species. The solution called Towering space organizes BHV spaces into a nested hierarchy, where transitions between BHV spaces are possible by removing or adding leaves to the trees.

University of Washington researcher Kevin Lin is working to reconstruct the hidden history of a cell, from healthy to diseased, using a single tissue snapshot. With a $2 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), he aims to develop a suite of AI-driven tools that can build a “computational time machine” for human biology that will help researchers identify therapeutic targets at the earliest stages of disease, long before patients experience symptoms.

The University of Washington Department of Biostatistics continues to rank among the top ten graduate programs in the United States, according to the U.S.News & World Report’s 2026 Best Graduate Schools released late Monday.