
Join SSI on Tuesday, September 30 for guest lecturer Ron Yurko. You can register for the event here: https://go.osu.edu/ssi_guest_lecture
Ron Yurko is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and is the Director of the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center. His research focuses on developing methods at the interface of inference and machine learning, oriented towards problems in sports analytics and natural language processing. His work has been featured in popular media outlets such as The Athletic, FiveThirtyEight, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He is a three-time degree holder from Carnegie Mellon: with a bachelors, masters, and PhD in Statistics. He also has industry experience in both finance and professional sports.