Faculty Activity
US-Taiwan Next-Generation Statistics Symposium – August 2
Jul. 16, 2025—It is our very great pleasure to bring together leading statisticians from our graduate program, Academia Sinica, National Cheng Kung University, and National Tsing Hua University to the Vanderbilt University campus on Saturday, August 2. The detailed agenda for the morning can be viewed on our symposium page. We hope to see many of you...
Dr. Bob Johnson receives Outstanding Chapter Service award from the ASA
Jul. 9, 2025—We are delighted to announce that the American Statistical Association (ASA) has named Dr. Bob Johnson as a 2025 recipient of its Outstanding Chapter Service Award. His contributions to the Middle Tennessee chapter include serving as secretary since 2022, development of an online election ballot, and assistance in local arrangements for the traveling course. This...
Vanderbilt Biostatistics at JSM 2025
Jun. 21, 2025—The 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings are taking place in Nashville, from August 2 through August 7. They are expected to bring together more than five thousand attendees from fifty-two countries (including more than a thousand students). This year’s theme is “Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society.” We are proud of the students, alumni, and...
Chris Slaughter elected to Academy for Excellence in Education
Jun. 5, 2025—Congratulations to associate professor Chris Slaughter on his election to the Academy for Excellence in Education. Dr. Slaughter has been teaching at Vanderbilt University since 2007, after earning his doctorate in public health (DrPH) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Initially serving as an instructor in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and the...
Andrew Spieker elected to Society for Causal Inference Board
Jun. 5, 2025—Congratulations to associate professor Andrew Spieker on his election to the board of the Society for Causal Inference (SCI). His methodological research focus is on causal inference methods, with special emphasis on sensitivity analysis, instrumental variable approaches, and longitudinal treatment regimes. Recognition for his methodological research in causal inference has included WNAR student paper honors...
Editorial by Benjamin French in JAMA Pediatrics
Apr. 21, 2025—Professor of biostatistics and director of graduate studies Benjamin French is senior author of “Type 1 Error Control—Avoiding an Upset,” published online on April 21, 2025, in JAMA Pediatrics. Co-authored by University of Utah statistician John VanBuren, the editorial discusses how “using a common type I error rate across studies allows for ‘consistency, fairness and transparency’ when...