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Jun. 12, 2025

Carlos, a U of A master's degree student in statistics and analytics who is researching plant breeding through the Center for Agricultural Data Analytics, recently attended the 30th Bruce Weir Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.

There, he had the chance to brush up on fundamental concepts in quantitative genetics, such as genomic prediction and genome-wide association studies (GWAS), as well as software and statistical approaches to tackle these problems.

Beyond the theory, Carlos had the chance to connect with graduate students from all over the country and even from other countries.

Jan. 14, 2025

Igor Fernandes, a U of A master's degree student in statistics and analytics who is researching plant breeding through the Center for Agricultural Data Analytics, recently placed first in a contest sponsored by the Sixth International Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems workshop.

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