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...

2018-03-08 - Young LAS alumni are more quickly finding jobs and other endeavors after graduation. New graduates from LAS are increasingly successful at securing a first destination after college, according to the third annual release of a campus initiative to better understand young Illinois alumni. They continue to be in strong demand by employers. These results are according to the ...

2018-02-28 - Professor Xiaohui Chen of Statistics has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his work titled as "Computer-Intensive Statistical Inference on High-Dimensional and Massive Data: From Theoretical Foundations to Practical Computations." NSF CAREER awards are one of the most distinguished awards a junior faculty member can receive as the...

2018-02-16 - The Department of Statistics seeks a full-time (12-month) academic professional as an Academic Advisor. This position reports to the Undergraduate Advising and Professional Development Office and will advise, guide, and provide resources, direction, and support for undergraduate students in the Departments of Statistics. Additional advising duties include course choices, progress toward...

2018-01-29 - Lingrui Gan, fourth year Statistics PhD student, has been selected as a winner of the 2018 Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) Student Paper Competition and will be among the possible candidates to win the Laplace Award, presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) held in Vancouver, BC from July 28th-August 2nd, 2018. The American Statistical Association (ASA) sponsored the...

2018-01-16 - Fei Xue, Statistics PhD student, has been selected as a winner of the 2018 Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Award for her paper entitled “Variable Selection for Highly Correlated Predictors”. The SLDS of the American Statistical Association (ASA) sponsored a student paper competition for the 2018 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) that is to be held in Vancouver, Canada, on...

2018-01-11 - Department of Statistics Professor, Bo Li has been selected for the prestigious Associate Research Appointment in the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for the 2018-2019 academic year. Each year, the tenured and untenured University of Illinois faculty are invited to submit scholarly or creative proposals for consideration by the Center’s permanent Professors. Faculty members with winning...

2018-01-11 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for teaching, clinical and visiting assistant/associate/full professor positions in Statistics and Data Science (up to 100% for 9 months). Teaching and clinical professorial positions are continuing specialized faculty appointments renewable subject to performance and funding. Visiting positions are for one year. Adjunct teaching/clinical/visiting...

2017-12-22 - Sihai Dave Zhao of the Department of Statistics has been named one of four recipients of the Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Award by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois. The LEAP Award is granted to faculty based on scholarly productivity and contributions to the educational mission of their departments and the college. The LEAP...

2017-11-20 - Douglas Simpson, Professor and Department Chair of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been awarded the distinction of Fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).