2025-10-21
- Illinois students gathered at the Illini Union on October 3 for the third annual Women in Statistics + Data Science panel. Organized by the Department of Statistics with support from the School of Information Sciences, the event invited panelists from across academia, research, and industry to share their stories and perspectives on being a woman in STEM. Panelists included: Lelys...
2025-09-11 - The United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS)—organized by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE)—returned this summer to Iowa State University with the theme "Useful Models." Since 2005, USCOTS has brought together teachers and researchers to exchange ideas through keynote addresses, interactive breakout sessions, poster...
2025-09-11 - The Department of Statistics is proud to celebrate our instructors and teaching assistants who have been recognized on the Spring 2025 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, compiled by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL).This honor is based on student feedback collected through the Instructor and Course Evaluation System (ICES)....
2025-09-08 - The Department of Statistics is celebrating a series of grant awards to faculty members, reflecting the breadth and impact of research taking place across the department. Supported by both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), these projects span topics ranging from mental health resilience and biomedical data science to generative models, simulation-...
2025-09-04 - 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 University of Illinois is a premier public institution providing an outstanding environment for research,...
2025-09-03 - Through the innovative X + Data Science (X + DS) program, Grainger Engineering's Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider and affiliate Karle Flanagan are preparing thousands of Illinois students to shape the future of technology, business and society through the power of data.The X + DS program at Illinois is transforming how students across disciplines engage with data by pairing traditional majors with...
2025-09-02 - The Department of Statistics is happy to announce that Jennifer Anderson Bliss, Senior Undergraduate Advisor, has been awarded the Rebecca J. Simon Award for Professional Development.The Rebecca J. Simon Award supports professional development opportunities for academic advisors and career services professionals. Recipients may receive financial support to offset registration, travel, and...
2025-09-02 - The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that Teaching Assistant Professor Kit Clement has been named co-editor of the journal Technology Innovations in Statistics Education (TISE).TISE is an open-access journal dedicated to advancing how technology can enhance the teaching and learning of statistics and data science across educational settings—from pre-K–12 to...
2025-08-22 - Eleven Illinois students and faculty researchers recently represented the university at the 2025 U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), held at Iowa State University. The delegation included undergraduates from multiple disciplines, including juniors Reem Kharfan (psychology), Samin Hemani (information systems), Mia Petrie (middle grade education) and seniors Madeline Hunt (...
2025-08-19 - An interdisciplinary research project led by University of Illinois faculty members Adrian Burgos Jr. (history), Daniel Eck (statistics), Christopher Kinson (statistics), and Shen Yan (statistics) was recently featured in the New York Times Science section article, “Bonds Beats the...
2025-08-19 - The Department of Statistics is proud to announce that the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois has named Professor Ruoqing Zhu a Brad and Karen Smith Scholar. This prestigious recognition honors faculty who demonstrate outstanding expertise and academic excellence in mathematics.Awardees are selected for their research contributions and scholarly impact...
2025-07-22 - Congratulations to Assistant Professor Susu Zhang on being named a 2024 Outstanding Reviewer by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She was formally recognized at the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting during the Publications Reception, an event celebrating excellence across AERA’s scholarly journals.The Outstanding Reviewer awards honor a select group of scholars who have...
2025-06-02 - A new interdisciplinary study co-authored by researchers from the statistics and history departments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduces a novel statistical framework for comparing baseball players across different eras. The paper, titled "Comparing Baseball Players Across Eras Via Novel Full House Modeling," appears in ...
2025-06-02 - The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Chan Park has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) New Researcher Travel Award. This prestigious award supports promising early-career researchers within five years of earning their PhD by providing funding to attend and present at IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored...
2025-04-29 - Dear Sweet Little Freshman-Year Victoria, Graduation has always been the end goal. It is always the big thing looming in the background of every day spent here on campus, every memory made here. With each passing year, it becomes a larger and larger reality. You realize all of the things that you haven’t done yet, all of the places you haven’t visited yet, all of the people you haven’t...