International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science (IDWSDS) is a free, virtual 24-hour conference with speakers around the world on October 14! This year's theme is "Thriving in your environment." CSTAT is organizing a session at 10:30AM EST! Register here for the conference:

Drs. Wenjuan Ma and Sichao Wang attended the 2025 ISU–NISS Conference on AI and Statistics at Iowa State University. This three-day event brought together leading researchers to explore cutting-edge developments at the intersection of artificial intelligence and statistical science, opening with an insightful workshop on reinforcement learning and featuring recent advances in online statistical inference, sequential decision-making, and causal machine learning.

Dr. Yunesi joined CSTAT in July as our newest full-time statistics research specialist! In his research he developed models, algorithms, and computational tools for use on cancer transcriptomics data. He gained valuable experiences in his internships at MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Food and Drug Administration. He supports researchers from the Natural Sciences and across MSU.

CSTAT is happy to introduce a new way to work with us -- free drop-in office hours! MSU faculty, research staff, and graduate students can stop by to get their research questions answered in-person by an experienced statistical consultant on aspects of study design, data collection, and statistical analysis and reporting.

CSTAT teamed up with Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) core facilities to provide information for new MSU faculty.

The panel "Navigating the Role of an Academic Consultant: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices" discussed experiences of directors of statistical consulting centers from University of Nebraska, University of Kentucky, Michigan State University, and University of Missouri.

Rayleigh and Marianne visited with faculty and staff from the College of Education. Dean's patio in Erickson Hall.

CSTAT has several statistics Zines on study design, statistical analysis plan, roles of variables, and more. Today we got an introduction by MSU libraries Joshua Barton on the fascinating Zine collection.

Dr. Lei joined CSTAT in July as our newest full-time statistics research specialist! In his research he developed Bayesian models and efficient computational tools, for example in social sciences applications. He supports researchers in the College of Education and from across MSU.

Despite snow storm and severe weather our CSTAT Team enjoyed an outing to watch the MSU women's basketball game.