2024-08-23
- Professor Vimal Rao of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Department of Statistics is a recipient of an Illinois Center for Social & Behavioral Science (CSBS) Small Grant award for his innovative project to transform data science accessibility. The grant will fund Rao's work to explore how...
2024-08-20 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce new leadership for the upcoming academic year. Professor Yuguo Chen will serve as Interim Chair of the department for the 2024-2025 academic year, succeeding Professor Bo Li, who has held the position since 2019. Additionally, Professor Georgios Fellouris will take on the role of Associate Chair...
2024-08-20 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is thrilled to welcome six new faculty members, each bringing a unique blend of research expertise and academic excellence to the department. Their arrival underscores the department's commitment to advancing the field of statistics across a wide range of disciplines. Here is a brief introduction to each of the new...
2024-08-09 - The 4th Annual Blackwell Summers Scholars Program concluded on August 1st with a research symposium at the Illini Union. The forum marks another successful year of research and collaboration for the scholars in the program named in honor of the esteemed mathematician and Illinois alum Dr. David H. Blackwell. The Blackwell Program is designed to provide undergraduate students with a robust...
2024-07-08 - The groundbreaking legacy of STAT 107/CS 107: Data Science Discovery will be remembered for the ages. The University of Illinois Alumni Association recently revealed the 2024 syllabus for Data Science Discovery as one of ten items to be included in the sesquicentennial time capsule. The chosen items were determined through an online survey of students and alumni. The time capsule will be placed...
2024-06-17 - Statistics professors Kelly Findley and Vimal Rao were recently named recipients for a grant through the Provost's Initiative on Teaching Advancement (PITA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. PITA grants are awarded to project proposals designed with a high likelihood to enhance the educational goals at Illinois through instructional and pedagogical innovation....
2024-05-30 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has named Assistant Professor Susu Zhang of Statistics and Psychology as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor (LEAP) Scholar. The LEAP Scholar designation recognizes Zhang’s significant achievements and outstanding potential as a researcher and professor at Illinois. Zhang’s work integrates latent...
2024-05-30 - The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) has announced the selection of Professor Yuguo Chen to the 2024 IMS Fellows list. Chen was chosen for his substantive and sustained contributions to Monte Carlo methods, network data analysis and statistical computing, and exceptional and extensive editorial work. Chen is the Director of the Illinois Statistics Consulting Office and holds...
2024-05-30 - Timothy Chin (BS, '18 statistics; MS, '20 statistics) is a data scientist for Rocket Mortgage where he works on predictive modeling and machine learning solutions for the mortgage lending company. The work ranges from developing new data science models that optimize the efficiency of the mortgage process to building APIs that streamline clients for a better user experience. Chin's current...
2024-05-29 - Professor Frank Quan of Actuarial Science and Risk Management has been appointed as a Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Quan is an affiliate professor of statistics and affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The named professorship title is based upon the recognition of...
2024-05-13 - The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) has selected professor Venugopal V. Veeravalli to the IMS Fellowship for outstanding contributions to sequential hypothesis testing and quickest change detection. Veeravalli is a Henry Magnuski Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) and the Department of Statistics. Veeravalli'...
2024-04-22 - Fueled by determination, problem-solving ingenuity, and a few slices of pizza, 113 teams took on the challenge of the 2024 Illinois Statistics Datathon. The annual event, sponsored by Synchrony in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratory, invited students from all levels across campus to put their skills to the test to problem solve and present a viable business solution to enhance the...
2024-03-07 - In November 2023, Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider and Karle Flanagan spent a full day at the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in Chicago, presenting an intensive workshop on data science to nearly 20...
2024-02-08 - It’s been almost a year since workers lifted the cornerstone of Illini Hall. It was a momentous event, occurring during the building’s demolition that marked the opening phase of the Altgeld and Illini Hall Project. A crowd of onlookers and news media were on hand to witness the occasion—there were rumors of a time capsule. They...
2024-02-05 - In the high-impact world of professional football, player health and safety are of utmost concern. Behind the scenes, data scientists like Illinois alumna, Ishani Desai (BS, '22, statistics and computer science) play a critical role leveraging analytics to track equipment, identify trends, and mitigate potential risks on the field. Stat-News had a chance to chat with Desai to discuss her journey...