2019-02-20
- Professor Annie Qu's groundbreaking work in data science has earned the honor of a named professor title Data Science Founder Professor.
Dr. Qu is Professor of Statistics, Affiliated Member of the Institute for Genomic Biology, and Director of the Illinois Statistics Office at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was awarded as Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar by...
2019-02-19 - The University of Illinois is moving forward with plans to expand its leadership in the mathematical sciences by constructing a new building west of the Main Quad by 2022 and renovating Altgeld Hall by 2024. Derek Fultz, director of facilities for the College of LAS, said the university is negotiating an architect contract for the roughly $100 million ...
2019-02-07 - Department of Statistics Assistant Professor, Naveen Narisetty has been selected for the prestigious Fellowship Award in the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for the 2019-2020 academic year. CAS Fellows are untenured University of Illinois faculty members with the rank of assistant professor. With the Professors and Associates, they form the intellectual core of the Center for...
2019-01-24 - Statistics PhD student, Yujia Deng has been selected as one of three runners-up of the 2019 ASA Statistics in Imaging Section Student Paper Competition for his paper titled: "Correlation Tensor Decomposition and Its Application in Spatial Imaging Data". The award will be presented at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver, Colorado. Yujia is advised by Professor Annie...
2019-01-07 - Statistics PhD student, Yubai Yuan, has been selected as a winner of the 2019 Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “Community Detection with Dependent Connectivity”. The SLDS of the American Statistical Association (ASA) sponsored a student paper competition for the 2019 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) that is to be held in...
2018-12-10 - The Daily Illini -- The gap between data science and computer programming is becoming even smaller. At the University, a new introductory course is being developed to encourage beginners to take an interest in these fields. The pilot launch for a new data science course, STAT 107: Data Science Discovery, is set to take place in the Spring 2019 semester. It will be co-taught...
2018-09-26 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois in partnership with LAS has opened a search for a Visiting Instructional Technology Specialist to join our department. The Visiting Instructional Technology Specialist will help faculty design and create computing systems for use in data science instruction. Working within the Department of Statistics, they will collaborate with...
2018-09-06 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months). Areas of emphasis include statistical methods and computation methods for big data, computational statistics, biological and health sciences, statistical machine learning, causal inference, graphical...
2018-08-31 - Plans for a new statewide innovation network to accelerate job creation and economic growth include building a world-class center devoted to the fast-growing field of data science, U of I System officials announced yesterday. The data science center will be created by replacing the university’s Illini Hall, which currently consists of primarily classrooms, computer labs, and faculty offices,...
2018-08-03 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for lecturer, teaching, clinical and visiting assistant/associate/full professor positions in Statistics and Data Science (up to 100% for 9 months). Lecturer, teaching and clinical professorial positions are continuing specialized faculty appointments renewable subject to performance and funding. Visiting positions can be renewed up to 3 years...
2018-05-30 - The Illinois Student Government hosted their annual Teaching Excellence Awards banquet on Sunday, April 22, at the Illini Union. The Illinois Student Government’s Teaching Excellence Awards is a completely student run effort to recognize and thank excellent instructors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. This year, Statistics Instructor, Karle Flanagan was honored with this...
2018-05-15 - Lingrui Gan has been awarded the prestigious Dissertation Completion Fellowship award from the Graduate College for 2018. Lingrui Gan is in his fourth year of study in the PhD program. There were a total of 78 nominations submitted from 48 departments from across campus, with 22 nominees selected for this award. The award comes with a one year fellowship designed to allow the recipients to...
2018-04-25 - Department of Statistics Professor, Yuguo Chen has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for 2018. The designation of ASA Fellow has been a significant honor for nearly 100 years. Under ASA bylaws, the Committee on Fellows can elect up to one-third of one percent of the total association membership as fellows each...
2018-04-23 - The ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy and the Section on Statistics and the Environment sent four statisticians to the eighth annual Climate Science Day (CSD) on Capitol Hill at the end of January. Peter Bloomfield, Dorit Hammerling, and Leonard Smith were...
2018-03-13 - Current MS in Statistics student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ruixuan (Rachel) Zhou, has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2018 ASA Section of Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Distinguished Student Paper Awards. This award is given out annually to only three to six eligible recipients who are current undergraduate or graduate students at any level as...