News Archive

2025

• 12/2025: Colin Fenster has successfully defended his thesis proposal. Congratulations, Colin! 

• 8/2025: Soutir has been awarded an NSF award!

• 7/2025: Sweta Rai successfully defended her PhD dissertation! Congrats, Sweta!

• 5/2025: Soutir has been appointed as the Director of the Data Science Program

• 5/2025: Is Chittumuri has been awarded the Fulbright- Iceland NSF Arctic Research Award. Congratulations Is!

• 5/2025: Our paper on Modeling Spatial Extremes using Non-Gaussian Spatial Autoregressive Models via Convolutional Neural Networks is on arXiv.

• 4/2025: Our paper on Frequency Domain Resampling for Gridded Spatial Data is on arXiv.

• 4/2025: Our paper on Risk Analysis of Flowlines in the Oil and Gas Sector: A GIS and Machine Learning Approach has been accepted for publication in SPE Journal. 

• 4/2025: Our package glmfitmiss is now available on CRAN. It helps in fitting GLMs when there is missing data in both the response and categorical covariates. 

• 4/2025: Our paper on 'Cumulative Logit Ordinal Regression with Proportional Odds under Nonignorable Missing Responses – Application to Phase III Trial' has been accepted for publication in Statistics and Medicine. Here is the arXiv link!

• 4/2025: Souvick Bera has been selected for 2024-2025 AMS Graduate teaching award! Congratulations, Souvick!!

• 4/2025: Juliette Mukangango will be joining Exact Sciences as a data scientist! Congratulations Juliette!!

• 4/2025: Our paper on 'Multiple Regression with Transformations and Variable Selection at the Industrial Scale' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education and is now available on the journal website.

• 4/2025: Soutir has been  promoted to Full Professor at Colorado School of Mines!

• 2/2025: Soutir has been invited to serve on the scientific program committee for the 7th Institute of Mathematical Statistics – Asia Pacific Rim Meeting (IMS-APRM).

• 2/2025: Our paper on 'A statistical framework for district energy long-term electric load forecasting' is now available on the journal website.

• 2/2025: Our paper on 'Adapting Quantile Mapping to Bias-Correct Solar Radiation Data' is now available on the journal website.

• 1/2025: Our paper 'A Statistical Framework for District Energy Long-term Electric Load Forecasting' has been accepted for publication in Applied Energy.  

• 1/2025: Soutir will serve as the Senior Statistician for the recently funded 'SBIR Phase I: Steadi-scores: Translating Balance Science into Clinical Action for Proactive Balance Training' (PI: Ava Segal).

• 1/2025: Sweta Rai’s work, titled "Modeling Spatial Extremes using Non-Gaussian Spatial Autoregressive Models via Convolutional Neural Networks," has been selected as one of three honorable mentions in this year’s ASA ENVR Student Paper Competition. Congratulations, Sweta!

• 1/2025: Susmit Bhattacharyya successfully passed his qualifying exam.

2024

• 12/2024: Our paper 'Adapting Quantile Mapping to Bias Correct Solar Radiation Data' has been accepted for publication in Solar Energy.  

• 11/2024:  Vivek Pradhan, successfully defended his dissertation! Congrats, Vivek!

• 11/2024:  Juliette Mukangango, successfully defended her dissertation! Congrats, Juliette!

• 10/2024: The National Climate Database (NCDB) Version 1 has been released! Check it out here: https://climate.nrel.gov/

• 10/2024: Soutir will be a panelist in the invited session "Environmental Statistics & Data Science: Where Do We Go from Here?" at JSM 2025.

• 10/2024: Here is the link to Soutir's SFSN webinar.

• 9/2024: Soutir will be giving a talk at Texas A&M University's Statistics Former Student Network (SFSN) webinar. Promotional Flyer.

• 8/2024: Dibyajyoti Chakrabarti (PhD) and Colin Fenster (MS) have joined our research group.

• 7/2024: Soutir has been appointed as the Associate Editor for Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS).

• 7/2024: Our paper on 'Adapting Quantile Mapping to Bias Correct Solar Radiation Data' is now on arXiv.

• 7/2024: Soutir will present a talk at the International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics in Braga, Portugal.

• 6/2024: Maggie Bailey, successfully defended her dissertation! Congrats, Maggie!

• 6/2024: Our paper on 'Temporal and Spatial Downscaling for Solar Radiation' is now on arXiv.

• 3/2024: Our NSF proposal for 'Workshop: Collaborative Strategies for Predicting and Measuring Uncertainty in Rare Occurrences in Civil and Environmental Systems' has been awarded. (PI: Bandyopadhyay; co-PI: Nychka)

• 2/2024: Our paper 'Fast parameter estimation of Generalized Extreme Value distribution using Neural Networks' has been accepted for publication in Environmetrics. Congratulations Sweta!!

2023

• 9/2023: Our paper 'Regridding Uncertainty for Statistical Downscaling of Solar Radiation' has been accepted for publication in ASCMO.

• 8/2023: Welcome Susmit Bhattacharya, Is Chittumuri, Zhang Lin, and Ryan Voss to our Research Group!!

• 8/2023: Soutir will be chairing Mines Graduate Council for AY 2023-2024.

• 7/2023: Soutir has been appointed as the Associate Editor for Environmetrics.

• 6/2023: Soutir has been appointed as the Associate Editor for ASCMO and Stat.

• 6/2023: Congratulations to Maggie Bailey for winning the IISA student poster competition and to Sweta Rai for being a finalist in the student paper competition!

• 5/2023: Our paper on 'Fast parameter estimation of Generalized Extreme Value distribution using Neural Networks' is now on arXiv.

• 5/2023: BIRS-IMAG workshop website.

• 5/2023: Soutir has been featured in the May edition of Amstat news 

• 4/2023: Our paper on 'Regridding Uncertainty for Statistical Downscaling of Solar Radiation' is now on arXiv.

• 4/2023: Here's a promotional poster for IISA 2023 Conference.

• 4/2023: Here's a promotional poster for our BIRS workshop.

• 4/2023: Maggie Bailey has successfully defended her thesis proposal!

• 3/2023: Soutir has been awarded 'The Mark Martinez and Joey Irwin Memorial Public Projects Fund’ to develop a risk assessment model for flowlines. Other team members: Serveh Kamrava (PE), Yilin Fan (PE), Jennifer Miskimins (PE), and William Fleckenstein (PE).

2022

• 12/2022: Soutir will present a talk at the 15th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2022).

• 12/2022: Our manuscript "Robust Density Power Divergence Estimates for Panel Data Models" has been accepted for publication in the Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 

• 10/2022: Soutir's session on “Learning and modeling of complex spatial and spatio-temporal processes” has been accepted for the JSM 2023 invited program.

• 9/2022: Soutir and Doug Nychka have been awarded an NSF award!

• 8/2022: Soutir and his students will present talks at Joint Statistical Meeting, 2022.

• 6/2022: Soutir will present a talk at 5th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2022).

• 5/2022: Our manuscript "Statistical analysis of experimental studies of non-Darcy flow in proppant packs" (Lead author: Kamga L Ngameni) has been accepted in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.

• 5/2022: Soutir has been elected as the ASA ENVR Program Chair-Elect 2023.

• 3/2022: Our application for the workshop on "Modern Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches for High-Dimensional Compound Spatial Extremes" has been accepted by BIRS  to run at the Institute of Mathematics of Granada (IMAG) in 2023.

• 2/2022: Lexi Denhard will be joining LinQuest as a data scientist. Congratulations Lexi!

• 2/2022: Soutir has been awarded an NREL subcontract on 'High-Resolution Long-term Weather Data for Energy'.

2021

• 12/2021: Our paper 'Adapting conditional simulation using circulant embedding for irregularly spaced spatial data'  has been accepted in STAT.

• 11/2021: Soutir has been awarded an NREL subcontract on 'High-Resolution Long-term Weather Data for Energy'.

• 10/2021: Our paper Data Driven Robust Estimation Methods for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models has been accepted in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.

• 10/2021: Our NREL report on Evaluation of Time-Series Gap-Filling Methods for Solar Irradiance Applications is published. 

• 9/2021: Our paper on 'Adapting Conditional Simulation Using Circulant Embedding for Irregularly Spaced Spatial Data' is on arXiv now.

• 8/2021: Our paper on 'Robust Density Power Divergence Estimates for Panel Data Models' is on arXiv now.

• 8/2021: 'A Comparison of Time Series Gap-Filling Methods to Impute Solar Radiation Data'  (Lead author: Alexis Denhard) has been accepted as an oral presentation for Solar World Congress (SWC) 2021.

• 7/2021: Our discussion on the paper Competition on Spatial Statistics for Large Datasets (Lead author: Lewis Blake) has been accepted in The Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES).  

• 6/2021: Maggie won a student award at the SSA Annual Meeting. Congratulations Maggie! 

• 4/2021: Our paper on 'A robust specification test in linear panel data models' is on arXiv now. 

• 3/2021: Maggie Bailey successfully defended her MS thesis. Congratulations Maggie! 

2020

• 11/2020: Our recent manuscript 'Data Driven Robust Estimation Methods for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models' in on arXiv now.

• 7/2020: Our manuscript "Robust Estimation for Linear Panel Data Models" has been accepted in Statistics in Medicine.

• 7/2020: Soutir has been selected by the 2020 IISA Awards Committee to be the recipient of the Young Statistical Scientist Award in the Applications category. 

• 5/2020: Our paper "A general frequency domain method for assessing spatial covariance structures" has been selected as Bernoulli Journal read paper.

• 4/2020: Maggie Bailey has started internship at U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO, under the supervision of Drs. Eric Thompson and David Wald.

• 4/2020: Peter Simonson successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Peter! Peter will be joining CACI-BITS systems as a Data Scientist. Congratulations Peter.

• 4/2020: Soutir has been awarded an NREL subcontract on 'Solar Resource Gap-filling and Forecasting'.

• 2/2020: Our manuscript 'Rapid Numerical Approximation Method for Integrated Covariance Functions Over Irregular Data Regions' has been accepted in Stat.

• 1/2020: Our recent manuscript 'Rapid Numerical Approximation Method for Integrated Covariance Functions Over Irregular Data Regions' in on arXiv now.

2019

• 12/2019: Soutir will be giving a talk at CMStatistics 2019.

• 9/2019: 'A General Frequency Domain Method for Assessing Spatial Covariance Structures' got accepted in Bernoulli.

• 7/2019: Soutir will be giving a talk at JSM 2019 in the session 'Handling Large Dimensionality, Skewness and Non-Stationarity Through Multi-Resolution Spatial Modeling'.

• 7/2019: Peter will be giving a talk at JSM 2019 in the session 'SPEED: Statistical Computing: Methods, Implementation, and Application'.

• 6/2019: Soutir will be giving seminars at Mathematics and Statistic Department, IIT Kanpur and Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. 

• 5/2019: Caitlyn has been awarded the AMS Graduate Research award. Congratulations Caitlyn!

• 4/2019: Soutir will be giving a talk at the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver.

• 3/2019: Caitlyn Hannum successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Caitlyn!

• 2/2019: Soutir has been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for Sankhya.

• 1/2019: 'A Model For Large Multivariate Spatial Datasets' got accepted in Statistica Sinica.