SSMU Research Committee

See here for more information about the Research Committee, including Past Events and Seminar Recordings: https://wxrderek.github.io/ssmu.html

This page contains info for the Research Committee of the Duke Statistical Science Majors Union (SSMU). We run a seminar series featuring researchers doing stats-related work in academia and industry. We also run an undergrad reading group on modern theory/methods in statistics and ML.

We are actively looking for undergraduates to join our committee! You need not be a Stats major. If interested, email xiran.wang@duke.edu. There is a one-question application.

SSMU Seminars

We always welcome Duke faculty, postdocs, and PhD students from all departments to give talks on their research! We also welcome other student organizations to cosponsor these talks, whenever applicable. Contact xiran.wang@duke.edu. For the 2026-2027 school year, SSMU Research plans to host four seminars in the Fall and four seminars in the Spring.

Reading Group

The Reading Group meets roughly biweekly on Fridays, 5-6pm in Perkins Link Group Study 1. At each meeting, someone presents on a manuscript/excerpt they read, and we discuss. If you’re an undergrad interested in theory/methods in stats/ML or would like to present a manuscript, see https://wxrderek.github.io/ssmu.html and fill out the corresponding Google forms! The website contains more information about meeting procedures. For the 2026-2027 school year, the group will meet four times in the Fall and four times in the Spring.