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Ruoqi Yu
Ruoqi Yu receives Campus Research Board Funding and Arnold O. Beckman Award
 Ruoqi Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been selected for funding by the Campus Research Board through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation. Her project, “Design Before Analysis:...
Yuguo Chen
Yuguo Chen appointed Robert W. Schaefer Professor
 Professor and Department Chair Yuguo Chen has been appointed a Robert W. Schaefer Professor in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The professorship honors the late Robert W. Schaefer (BS ’56, Chemical Engineering), a Illinois alumnus and...
Jun Hee Kim
Media Mention: Jun Hee Kim’s Saberseminar Research Featured by FanGraphs
 Statistics doctoral student Jun Hee Kim recently presented collaborative research with Adrian Burgos, Jr., Shen Yan, Ryan To, and Daniel J. Eck of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at the 2026 Sabermetrics, Scouting, and the Science of Baseball (Saberseminar), held August 29–30 in...
Blackwell Scholars
Blackwell Summer Scholars showcase summer research at annual symposium
 Illinois undergraduate students from statistics, information sciences, and neural engineering gathered at the Illini Union on Aug. 7 to share the results of their summer research as part of the 2026 Blackwell Summer Scholars Symposium. The symposium marked the conclusion of an eight-week...
New faculty
Department of Statistics Welcomes Three New Assistant Professors
 The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Statistics is pleased to welcome three new assistant professors—Xin Bing, Chen Cheng, and Yujia Zheng—to the department beginning in the 2026–27 academic year. Their research spans machine learning theory, high-dimensional statistics,...

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Alumni Spotlight

Sheila Gudehithlu ('12,'13) - Instructor, Loyola University at Chicago

Sheila Gudehithlu is an Instructor in the Math and Statistics Department at Loyola University at Chicago. At Loyola, Sheila teaches Introduction to Statistics to students who are in non-math related majors. And Introduction to Biostatistics to Biology related majors. Sheila received her Bachelor's degree in Statistics in May 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She continued at the University of Illinois to pursue a Masters' in Statistics (Dec 2013) as well. What is your favorite part about your current occupation/position? How did you get to where you are now?...
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