2022-04-25
- Held at the I-Hotel & Conference Center, the 2022 Bohrer Memorial Student Workshop in Statistics returned to tradition on April 23, 2022. The 2022 Bohrer Workshop would be the first workshop since 2018 to be held in-person. Department of Statistics Chair, Bo Li, kicked off the festivities at 9:00 AM with opening remarks that welcomed attendees back to the annual department event. The Bohrer...
2022-04-15 - Professor Bo Li has been awarded the ASA Section on Statistics and Environment (ENVR) Distinguished Achievement Award for 2022. ENVR Awards recognize outstanding contributions to the development of methods, issues, concepts, applications, and initiatives in environmental statistics with the Distinguished Achievement Award honoring those who have made distinguished contributions to...
2022-04-01 - The Graduate College is proud to announce that Aaron Thompson from Statistics is the winner of the 2022 Graduate College Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts. The award is given annually as part of the Graduate College’s ...
2022-04-01 - The Statistics Department hosted Ketki Joshi for our inaugural Stat Chat at the Campus Instructional Facility on Monday, March 28, 2022. The Stat Chat series is designed to give students a better idea of what the Statistics major encompasses and what kinds of jobs they might be able to get post-graduation. The talks also bring in our alumni currently working in various fields to discuss how they...
2022-03-24 - The National Council on Measurement in Education has named Professor Emeritus William Stout as the recipient of the NCME Award for Career Contributions to Educational Measurement. This award honors a person whose contributions over a career have had a widespread positive impact on the field. Over the past four decades, Professor Stout has been the catalyst for fundamental paradigm shifts in...
2022-03-24 - Professor Susu Zhang named as the 2022 National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) recipient of the Alicia Cascallar Award for an Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Scholar. The NCME selected Dr. Zhang for her work in the role and utility of process data in educational measurement. Dr. Zhang develops a coherent and general framework to organize process data into a feature vector and...
2022-01-31 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for instructors, lecturers, teaching track assistant/associate/full professors and clinical track assistant/associate/full professors. Some areas of emphasis include statistical methods for data science, statistical machine learning, computational statistics and informatics. A particular area of emphasis is candidates who can teach modern...
2022-01-14 - Mengchen Wang’s paper, “Bayesian Changepoint Estimation for Spatially Indexed Functional Time Series”, is an honorable mention in the 2022 ENVR Student Paper Competition. Wang, a fourth year PhD student in statistics faced challenging competition, but ultimately became one of five award recipients. The Section on Statistics in the Environment (ENVR) sponsors a student paper competition on the...
2021-12-22 - James Balamuta, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, has been selecting as the winner of the 2022 Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize. The Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize recognizes at most one outstanding Ph.D. dissertation each year, written in any field covered by the journal Psychometrika. Criteria include the originality and rigor of the research, possible...
2021-12-08 - Undergraduate students in the Department of Statistics presented research projects to peers, mentors, and general attendees at the Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Experience in Statistics (URES) Symposium, held on December 8, 2021. Paired with faculty mentors, students selected for the URES program collaborate and develop projects throughout the semester in preparation of presenting their...
2021-11-30 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumnus, Ehsan Bokhari, was recently named the new Assistant General Manager for the Chicago Cubs. The 38-year-old Bokhari graduated from Illinois in 2011 with a Masters in Statistics and in 2014 with a Doctorate in Quantitative Psychology. Bokhari served as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Statistics before heading off for the major...
2021-11-18 - The NetMath program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provides college students and high school students an opportunity to enroll in college level courses to earn credits while learning about various mathematics and statistics topics. From completing calculus requirements, to applied linear algebra, an introduction to probability theory, or statistical analysis, NetMath has over 20...
2021-11-08 - Karle Flanagan, Senior Instructor of Statistics, has recently been named as a CITL Faculty Fellow effective Fall 2021. The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning Faculty Fellowship program seeks unique perspectives and academic interests to assist CITL Staff in identifying faculty needs and reducing barriers to participation in CITL programs, workshops, and events. Supported by the...
2021-10-28 - Lyndsay Shand received her PhD in Statistics from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017 specializing in spatial-temporal analysis and is now a research statistician at Sandia. At Sandia, Lyndsay continues to conduct and lead research centered around space-time statistics with applications to atmospheric science, climate science and disease modeling to name a few. Specific research...
2021-10-05 - Senior Statistics student, Bingyu Zhou, has been selected to display her artwork at the Illini Union Art Gallery through the month of October. Her show, Scratch Paper Paradise, comprises over 200 drawings that she has done which incorporate the reuse of the scratch paper from her problem sets. While Bingyu has taken many art classes and experimented with various styles throughout her life, she...