The first annual Blackwell Summer Scholars Program finished on July 2, 2021, with the Blackwell Scholars student presentation event. The program witnessed fourteen scholars embark on a six-week-long journey as they worked together on an assortment of projects, culminating with their research presentations at the end of the program. The Blackwell Summer Scholars Program kicked off on May 24, 2021...
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Department of Statistics PhD student, Joshua Loyal, has been selected for the 2021 International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Best Student/Postdoc Contributed Paper Award, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Loyal’s paper, titled: An Eigenmodel for Dynamic Multilayer Networks was presented at the 2021 ISBA World Meeting held from June 28 through July 02,...
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has appointed Statistics Professor, Xiaofeng Shao, as the newest Data Science Founder Scholar. The named scholars program aims to recognize outstanding members of the faculty and to provide each with a funding allocation to enhance her or his scholarly activities. Dr. Shao received his PhD in Statistics from...
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- The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) has selected Yujia Deng - fifth year PhD student - as one of six possible winners of the Student Paper Awards of the ICSA 2021 Applied Statistics Symposium. Deng's paper, titled: Query-augmented Active Metric Learning, will be...
- During its annual promotion review process, the Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure identifies exceptional cases of scholars whose...
- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Academic Advising Committee (IlliAAC) has named Statistics Undergraduate Advisor, Aaron Smith, as one of the recipients of the 2021 Outstanding New Advising Professionals. Smith was selected for this award for his dedication, care, and commitment to...
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Alumni Spotlight: Carol Frigo (’13,’15) – Assistant Vice President of Advanced Analytics, Synchrony Financial
After beginning in the College of Business and participating in a job shadow, I realized Finance and Accounting was not what I was interested in pursuing – I wanted to research and develop financial metrics and models, perform deep dive analysis to identify why certain trends were occurring, and...