News: Statistics and Data Sciences

UT biochemistry major Milit Patel collaborated with researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on research published in a top cancer journal.

Tu-Quyen Dao, a senior biochemistry student, is studying how AI can be applied to improve healthcare.

Pinpointing an outbreak’s peak, the approach can boost health systems’ preparedness and risk communication.

UT Austin had 15 Ph.D. candidates selected as fellows campus-wide, with most studying computer science.

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.