Wang Awarded the COVID-19 Exceptional Effort Awards for Research Impact
January 7, 2021
Lily Wang, Professor, has been awarded the COVID-19 exceptional effort awards for research Impact. Click here to find the complete list of the exceptional effort awardees.
Seminar Talk at University of Nebraska Medical Center
December 4, 2020
Lily Wang, Professor, was invited to give a talk at Department of Biostatistics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, "Modeling and Forecasting COVID-19 in the United States".
Seminar Talk at University of Toledo
November 20, 2020
Lily Wang, Professor, was invited to give a talk at University of Toledo, "Modeling and Forecasting COVID-19 in the United States".
Seminar Talk at the Baker Center Seminar Series on SARS-CoV2/COVID-19
October 27, 2020
Lily Wang, Professor, was invited to give a talk at the Baker Center Seminar Series on SARS-CoV2/COVID-19, "Modeling and Forecasting COVID-19 in the United States".
Invited Talk at 2020 ASA Oregon Chapter Meeting
October 19, 2020
Lily Wang, Professor, was invited to give a talk at ASA Oregon: Chapter Meeting, "Spatiotemporal Dynamics, Modeling and Forecasting COVID-19 in the United States".
Seminar Talk at Clemson University
October 14, 2020
Guannan Wang, Assistant Professor, was invited to give a seminar talk at Clemson University -- "Spatiotemporal Dynamics, Nowcasting and Forecasting COVID-19 in the U.S."
Interview with VOA about COVID-19
October 10, 2020
Lily Wang, Professor, was quoted in a October 10 VOA story, "Series of Failures Keeps Coronavirus Spreading in US, Experts Say."
Seminar Talk at W&M
September 30, 2020
Shan Yu, Assistant Professor, was invited to give an Applied Mathematics Seminar talk at William&Mary -- "Spatiotemporal Dynamics, Nowcasting and Forecasting COVID-19 in the U.S."
Proposal by Rongerude, Das, Kuhlmann and Wang Wins NSF Rapid Grant
September 16, 2020
The proposal "RAPID: Keeping Shelters in Place: Understanding Residential Landlord Decision-making During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Rongerude, Das, Kuhlmann and Wang has won the NSF Rapid Grant; read the story "Researchers to study effects of landlord decisions during pandemic."
Presentation at DSCC
August 28, 2020
GuanNan Wang, Assistant Professor, was invited to give a presentation at the Data Science Conference on COVID-19, "Comparing and Integrating US COVID-19 Data from Multiple Sources with Anomaly Detection and Repairing".
Yu Joined University of Virginia As Tenure-track Assistant Professor
August 20, 2020
Group member, Shan Yu, PhD student, joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Virginia as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Shan!
Li Joined Clemson University As Tenure-track Assistant Professor
August 15, 2020
Group member, Xinyi Li, Postdoctoral Fellow (at SAMSI and UNC Chapel Hill), joined the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Clemson University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Xinyi!
Invited Talk at 2020 JSM
August 05, 2020
Lily Wang, Professor, was invited to give a presentation at the JSM, "Spatiotemporal Dynamics, Nowcasting and Forecasting COVID-19 in the United States".
Ivey Online about Our COVID-19 Research
July 30, 2020
Lei Gao, Assistant Professor, was featured on July 2020 Ivey Online Ivy College of Business, Iowa State University.
W&M News about Our Research and Dashboard
July 17, 2020
GuanNan Wang, Assistant Professor, was interviewed for a W&M News & Media story, "William & Mary mathematicians help to develop COVID-tracking database."
Interview with Politico about COVID-19 Prediction
July 08, 2020
Lily Wang, Associate Professor, was quoted in a July 08 Politico story, "Grim projection: 200,000 dead by Election Day."
Thank-you Letter from President Wintersteen
July 05, 2020
We received a thank-you letter from ISU President Wendy Wintersteen Sunday morning, "I deeply appreciate the work that you and your team are doing to assist the CDC in tracking COVID-19. I found your dashboard easy to use and very helpful in understanding the disease's progression. Well done!" Thank you for your encouragement, President Wintersteen! We will continuously improve our research and service.
Interview with Iowa Public Radio (IPR) about Scientific Modeling
July 02, 2020
Lily Wang, Associate Professor, was interviewed for a July 02 IPR Radio story, "Iowa State researchers help the CDC forecast the spread of COVID-19".
LAS News about Our Research and Dashboard
June 30, 2020
Lily Wang, Associate Professor, was interviewed for a story "Iowa State-led research team develops statistical models which help the CDC track and forecast COVID-19 deaths in the United States".
Invited Talk at the Pod of Asclepius
June 30, 2020
Lily Wang, Associate Professor, was invited to give a talk at the the Pod of Asclepiu, "Spatiotemporal dynamics, nowcasting and forecasting COVID-19 in the United States". [YouTube]
IMS Bulletin Includes Our COVID-19 Research
VOLUME 49, ISSUE 4
Our recent research work on COVID-19 was included in IMS Bulletin, "IMS members' work on COVID-19".
Link Magazine Features Our COVID-19 Research
VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3
Lily Wang, Associate Professor, was interviewed for a story "Statistics research group answers the call of COVID-19".
Interview with Amstat about Our Dashboard
June 01, 2020
Lily Wang, Associate Professor, was interviewed for a story, "Statisticians Create COVID-19 Dashboard to Predict Infection".
Kim and Wang Receive IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award
May 30, 2020
Group members, Myungjin Kim and Yueying Wang, Ph.D candidtates, received Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award to attend any IMS co-sponsored meeting between now and December 31, 2022. Click here to find the complete list of the awardees.
Our Forecast of COVID-19 Death Count Now Appears on the CDC Website
May 20, 2020
Our forecast of COVID-19 death count based on the new proposed spatiotemporal epidemic model (STEM) now appears on the CDC ensemble forecast; check details on the CDC website, "COVID-19 Forecasts: Deaths".
Wang Named Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
May 18, 2020
Lily Wang, Associate Professor, has been named Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Click here to find the complete list of the newly elected fellows.
Invited Talk at the Webinar Series: Data Science In Action In Response To The Outbreak of COVID-19
May 01, 2020
Lily Wang, Associate Professor, was invited to give a talk at the Webinar Series Data Science In Action In Response To The Outbreak of COVID-19, "COVID19 US dashboard: Spatiotemporal dynamics, nowcasting and forecasting COVID-19 in the United States". [Video|Slides]