Graduate
Recent Graduate Accomplishments
March 2007: The Statistics Department would like to congratulate Tony Vaiciulis on winning the SAS poster contest. He presented his poster at the Data Mining M2006 Conference on October 23-24 in Las Vegas, NV.
February 2005: David Vogel (Ph.D. candidate) won First Prize in the Data Mining Competition sponsored by the German Classification Society. The award is $1,000 Euro and an expenses paid trip to Magdeburg, Germany to present a paper.
February 2005: Hengchang Pan (M.S. 2002) recently passed the actuarial science exams that establish him as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.
September 2004: A UCF team consisting of Morgan Wang (Professor of Statistics & Actuarial Science), Eric Gottshalk (recent graduate of the Statistical Computing M.S.) and David Vogel (a working professional and a student in the Modeling & Simulation PhD program) won the 2004 KDD Cup. Awarded at the 10th ACM SIGKDD International Conference "On Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining," the KIDD Cup is an open competition which draws entries from Data Mining specialists world-wide. This year's competition had two tasks, in Protein Homology and Particle Physics. The UCF team received 1st Place Overall for the latter and tied for 1st Place Overall for the former.
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