Debbie Ungson-Walbert joined the Department of Statistics as its new Career Services Advisor earlier this term. Ms. Ungson-Walbert holds both her B.S. and M.A. in economics. Before moving towards higher education, she worked primarily in government settings such as the Illinois Commerce Commission and the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. She then worked for Heartland Community College...
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The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination period for the inaugural Excellence in Instruction Award. The Statistics Department Award for Excellence in Instruction recognizes consistently outstanding instruction by a faculty member of the Statistics department. This award is given annually to honor a faculty member in the department who epitomizes the highest...
Yubo Zhuang, second-year Statistics-PhD student, was recently notified of being awarded a 2022 NeuIPS 2022 Scholar Award for his paper titled “Wasserstein K-means for clustering probability distributions.” The Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022) is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in machine learning,...
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- The Department of Statistics invites applications for multiple specialized faculty positions (100% for 9 months) that support our growing statistics, statistics & computer science, and data science programs on campus. All areas of teaching expertise will be considered, but areas of priority...
- The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for an open rank faculty (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor) position in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months). All areas of Statistics and Data Science are welcome. The anticipated starting...
- Sihai Dave Zhao (GNDP), an associate professor of statistics, has been appointed the Director of Computational Genomics at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Zhao has been a member of the IGB for over eight years, joining the year he came to the University of Illinois Urbana-...
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Alumni Spotlight: Huitian Jiao ('14) - Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Microsoft
Huitian Jiao is currently a Data Scientist at Microsoft working on intelligent features for Office such as developing clustering/classification algorithms to generate relevant topics for end users in Python and Azure. She received her...