News: Statistics and Data Sciences

The study identifies an ancestral population in Central Siberia linked to the origin of Uralic languages.

Vagheesh Narasimhan, a biologist and data scientist, uses Frontera and Lonestar6 supercomputers to power discovery.

A common idea in evolutionary biology comes under new scrutiny with help from a big medical dataset and AI.

Vagheesh Narasimhan had an extraordinary achievement in original research, providing clues to human evolution.

By using ancient samples, the scientists managed to look back in time to uncover novel signatures of adaptation at the dawn of the agricultural revolution.

From organizing hackathons to tackling big data sets, one student finds inspiration in the college’s newest major.

Across three degrees, the online computing master's offerings now serve about a third of UT's graduate students.

Public health officials and researchers gathered this month for a gamified version of an outbreak investigation.

Stella Offner and Arya Farahi are among the leads of a new multi-institution institute focused on AI and astronomy.

Familiar faces and newcomers alike are among the 13 newest tenured and tenure-track faculty members joining the college.