Professor Sun receives the Environment Early Investigator Award 2017 for her outstanding contribution in environmental statistics 1 min read · Sun, Aug 13 2017 News spatio-temporal statistics environmental applications computational methods Ying Sun, Professor of Statistics in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering Division (CEMSE) of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the 2017 Early Investigator Award by the American Statistical Associationâs Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR).
Getting a visual on complex data 1 min read · Thu, May 18 2017 News applied mathematics data A new method for visually presenting complex data distributions provides a much-needed tool for management, analysis and interpretation.
Smart healthcare uses stats to spot a stumble 1 min read · Sat, Apr 15 2017 News statistics healthcare Statistical monitoring technology can detect serious falls and immediately warn healthcare providers.
A safe sweep of weather data 1 min read · Sat, Feb 25 2017 News weather statistics applied mathematics A statistical technique for automatically cleaning erroneous data from weather-balloon observations will improve the accuracy of weather forecasting.
Keeping antennas at peak performance 1 min read · Sat, Jan 28 2017 News applied mathematics statistics Sensitive detection of partial faults in antenna systems could prevent performance degradation in wireless networks.
Getting the jump on industrial failures 1 min read · Sat, Nov 26 2016 News applied mathematics statistics industry A statistics-driven method for the early detection of emerging problems in industrial processes could improve industrial safety, reliability and productivity.
Keeping pollution under control 1 min read · Sat, Nov 5 2016 News monitoring sensors Sophisticated statistical methods can detect ozone pollution hot spots and monitor instrument failure.
2016 Workshop Statistics for High-Dimensional & Complex Data 1 min read · Mon, Oct 31 2016 News statistics Workshop on Statistics for High-Dimensional and Complex Data, Nov. 6-9, 2016 Organizers : Prof. Marc G. Genton, Chair of Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Science Group Prof. Raphael Huser, Chair of Extreme Statistics Group Prof. Ying Sun, Chair of Environmental Statistics Group Confirmed speakers: Prof. David Bolin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Prof. Probal Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, India Prof. Dan Cooley, Colorado State University, USA Prof. Subhajit Dutta, IIT Kanpur, India Prof. Amanda Hering, Baylor University, USA Dr. Anna Kiriliouk, Université
Ying Sun wins Young Researcher Award 1 min read · Thu, Jul 21 2016 News award KAUST Assistant Professor of Statistics Ying Sun won the 2016 Abdel El-Shaarawi Young Researcher (AEYR) Award from the International Environmetrics Society (TIES) in June. The society was founded by El-Shaarawi, an Egyptian-born and Canadian-trained statistician, and the award was established by the board of TIES in 2002 to honor young statisticians who have made excellent contributions to the development of statistical and/or quantitative methods for environmental science research. Sun received the award on July 18 at the 26th Annual Conference of the International Environmetrics Society in
A clearer view of rainfall patterns 1 min read · Sat, Apr 30 2016 News applied mathematics statistics precipitation Improved random modeling allows scientists to generate realistic patterns of high-frequency rainfall.
2015 Workshop on Computational Space-Time Statistics 1 min read · Sun, Oct 4 2015 Spotlight News statistics spatio-temporal statistics Bayesian computational statistics Organizers : Prof. Marc G. Genton , Chair of Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Science Group Prof. Raphael Huser, Chair of Extreme Statistics Group Prof. Ying Sun, Chair of Environmental Statistics Group Confirmed speakers: Prof. Sudipto Banerjee, University of California Los Angeles, USA Prof. Souhaib Ben Taieb, Monash University, Australia Prof. Stefano Castruccio, Newcastle University, UK Prof. Miguel de Carvalho, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Prof. Clément Dombry, University of Franche-Comté , France Prof. Xuming He, University of Michigan, USA Prof. Hsin-Cheng Huang
Brain waves in boxes 1 min read · Sat, Oct 3 2015 News biomedicine statistics bioscience brain science A statistical method helps to identify abnormal signals in electroencephalograms and locate their source in the brain.
CEMSE Welcomes new Professor: Dr. Ying Sun 1 min read · Wed, Jul 23 2014 News spatio-temporal statistics environmental applications computational methods Ying Sun is an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE). She joined KAUST after one-year service as an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the Ohio State University.
