Out in the World

• Vianey Leos Barajas receives collaborative grant to support research at the intersection of statistics, ecology and medicine

• Ecologists and mental health researchers unite to improve patient care, save wild animals using Fitbit-like devices

• How can lizards adapt to a changing climate?

• U of T statistics students analyze oceans of data to understand how water temperature affects sharks

• Meet the Professor: Q & A with Vianey Leos Barajas, assistant professor since July 2020

PhD Students

• Sofia Ruiz Suarez: (1) Fulbright Scholars Award for "Use and development of probabilistic machine learning techniques for classification of spatiotemporal patterns". Working with Dr. Brian Reich at NCSU from August - November 2021. (2) Mitacs Globalink Research Program, awarded for "Modeling animal movement for sustainable livestock management". Working with myself and Dr. Radu Craiu at the University of Toronto from Feb - July 2022. (3) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute w/ Patrick Brown and Prabhat Jha, Dec 2022 - Nov 2024.

• Robert Zimmerman: Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology for "Hidden Markov Models for Big Noisy Data". Awarded 2021.

Undergraduate Students

• Summer 2022 @ University of Toronto:
  Full-time internships
  * Summer Undergraduate Data Science Research Program - Lauren Gill
  winner of best talk at student research day

• Summer 2021 @ University of Toronto:
  Full-time Internships
  * NSERC USRA - Jessica Long
  * Centre for Global Change Science - Simone Collier

Research Awards:
* Department of Statistical Sciences USRA - Yun-Hsiang Chan
* School of Environment - Sophie Berkowitz