2023-01-09
- Karle Flanagan and Alex Stepanov have been chosen as the inaugural recipients of the Department of Statistics Award for Excellence in Instruction. This award recognizes the impact that instructors have on their students by taking a holistic approach to understanding how faculty members facilitate the learning experience. The award will be presented at the Spring 2023 Bohrer Workshop in April. The...
2023-01-09 - Professor Naveen Narisetty was honored with the inaugural Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Sciences (ECASDS) at the Indian International Statistical Association (IISA) conference, held from December 26-30, 2022 in Bangalore, India. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of statistics and data science by IISA members and replaces the Young Statistical Scientist Award...
2022-12-19 - There is a fascinating, intricate science behind America’s favorite pastime. Statistics and data science have quickly become a vital asset to MLB organizations. If this interests you, you may enjoy the new Stat 430: Baseball Analytics with Professor Daniel Eck. Even if you aren’t particularly a sports fan, this course offers a multitude of skills which could be applied to other careers in data...
2022-12-13 - After the onset of COVID-19, policymakers were dismayed by many people who avoided personal and public safety measures designed to curb the spread of the virus. Many social scientists mobilized to better understand this behavior, including Jake Bowers, a professor of political science and statistics...
2022-11-03 - 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...
2022-11-02 - 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,...
2022-10-31 - 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 include introductory statistics, machine learning, data and software engineering, or statistical...
2022-10-31 - 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 date is August 16, 2023. Salary is competitive. The Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences...
2022-09-30 - 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-Champaign. At the IGB he develops analysis strategies for genomic data, improves statistical applications in...
2022-07-08 - The second annual Blackwell Summer Scholars program concluded on July 1, 2022, with the scholars presenting research projects they developed over the six-week workshop. Named for University of Illinois Mathematics alumnus, David H. Blackwell, the Blackwell Summer Scholars program intends to honor the legacy of the world-renowned scholar of mathematics and statistics. Created to increase access...
2022-06-29 - Assistant Professor Xinran Li is a recipient of the 2022 International Chinese Statistical Associate (ICSA) Outstanding Young Research Award. The ICSA Outstanding Young Researcher Award honors ICSA members who received a doctoral degree dated 2016 or later and has demonstrated outstanding research in statistical theory, methodology and/or applications and potential for continued success...
2022-06-06 - Assistant Professor Naveen Narisetty receives the Helen Corley Petit Scholars position for early career scholars. Recipients of the named scholar are awarded based on their contributions in education and research at the University of Illinois. The Helen Corley Petit Scholars is made possible through an endowment for the development of the scholarship and teaching of early career faculty members...
2022-06-03 - Earlier this year, we had an opportunity to catch up with Illinois alumna, Krti Tallam for a virtual Stat Chat. After graduating from Illinois in 2018, earning a bachelor degrees in statistics and natural resources and environmental sciences with a concentration in fish, wildlife, and conservation biology, Tallam has continued her journey pursing a PhD in Biology at Stanford University. Tallam is...
2022-06-01 - Statistics-PhD student, Wenzhuo Zhou is a recipient of the 2022 MassMutual Student Research Award from the New England Statistical Society (NESS). Zhou’s paper, titled “Estimating Optimal Infinite Horizon Dynamic Treatment Regimes via pT-Learning”, was one of ten papers selected from over 170 submissions. Zhou is advised by University of Illinois Professor Ruoqing Zhu and Professor Annie...
2022-04-29 - Katy Miles, senior and student employee in Statistics, was recognized for her excellence at the 2022 Student Employee and Tutor of the Year Recognition Event, hosted by the Office of Student Financial Aid. The event, held on April 14 as part of National Student Employment Week, is designed to recognize the best and brightest student employees and tutors working on campus. Miles was one of two...