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CEC Department of Statistics continues to network with Washington, D.C., universities George Washington and Georgetown, leading to ongoing collaborations.  

While working full-time in Northern Virginia as a consultant in technology, management, and marketing analysis for over a decade, Tigran Markaryan has also been teaching statistics at George Mason University as an adjunct professor. 

Aminat Gbadamosi loves how statistics appear in so much academic research, and she looks forward to contributing to students’ lives at George Mason. 

Department of Statistics graduate students gathered with faculty in the Nguyen Building Atrium for the first student-organized welcome mixer.

The Department of Statistics’ Lily Wang and George Washington University’s Huixia Judy Wang are developing scalable, distributed computing methods to analyze large-scale spatiotemporal datasets. The collaborative research project is funded by the National Science Foundation.  

Amir Hasan, office manager in the Department of Statistics, is the September Employee of the Month.

The Department of Statistics, George Mason University, is sorry to report that Associate Professor Emeritus John Miller, 78, died unexpectedly on August 7, 2024. 

In the quest to combat Alzheimer's disease, George Mason professor Abolfazl Safikhani is working with neuroscientists and imaging experts at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) to pioneer groundbreaking advancements in biomarker identification. 

In two recent research projects, George Mason statistics professor Abolfazl Safikhani has applied machine learning tools to time series analysis of land use and real estate pricing to help decision-makers in urban planning and real estate.  

Statistics student award winners were honored at 2024 graduation ceremonies

Statistics students and faculty can find Associate Chair Brett Hunter in his office with the door open most every day of the week, and this year, his dedication and many contributions to the department earned him the college’s Outstanding Service Award. 

Cliff Sutton, who will retire this year, reflects on the past and shares his recollections.