Statistics PhD students, Wei Han and Xinming Yang selected along with eight other competitors from across the nation for the 2020 Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) Student Paper Award sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA). The total of ten winners were selected from a record number of 60 entrants this year.
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Assistant Professor of Statistics, Naveen Narisetty, has recently received the distinguished Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in
Professor Xiaohui Chen of Statistics has been awarded the prestigious Simons Fellows in Mathematics award from the Simons Foundation. The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for the Simons Fellows in Mathematics program, to make sabbatical research leaves more productive by extending them from a single term to a full academic year.
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- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is searching for a full-time tenure track Assistant Professor of Psychology/Assistant Professor of Statistics (joint appointment) whose research interests are statistical methods in the analysis of behavior.
- With an ever-growing demand and interest in the field of statistics, the need for additional faculty and staff to meet this demand is critical in order to educate future data scientists and statisticians of the world.
- Kagen Quiballo, a senior double majoring in Mathematics and Statistics with a minor in Informatics is one of two undergraduates from the University of Illinois to have been awarded the ARL Fellowships for Digital & Inclusive Excellence.
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Choosing Statistics graduate program at University of Illinois is one of the best decisions I have ever made. The combination of theoretical and practical courses, has equipped me with not only solid foundation on Statistics, but also hands-on experience solving real world problems.