The University of Washington Department of Biostatistics begins the 2025-26 academic year under new leadership, welcoming Professor Ali Shojaie as interim department chair and Professor Marco Carone as interim associate chair. Both assumed their duties on July 1, 2025.

The University of Washington Biostatistics Department was well-represented at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA).

University of Washington Biostatistics PhD student Sungtaek Son has received a student travel award from the Applied Statistics Symposium of International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) and runner-up award honors from the Western North American Region (WNAR) of The International Biometric Society for his research on "Dimension reduction and covariate balancing for learning individualized treatment regimes."

Marco Carone, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, has received the prestigious 2025 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Check out the great work accomplished by UW Biostatistics students, faculty, and alums presenting at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), August 2- August 7, in Nashville!

Angela Dahl, a Biostatistics PhD student at the University of Washington, was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Written Student Paper Award by the Western North American Region (WNAR) of The International Biometric Society.

Congratulations to the University of Washington (UW) Department of Biostatistics Class of 2025! Students graduating this academic year were recognized at a celebration on Sunday, June 15, attended by family, friends, faculty, and staff.

Congratulations to the student and staff recipients in the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics who were recognized with 2025 UW School of Public Health (SPH) Excellence Awards.