2020-05-20
- As COVID-19 ravages parts of the globe and threatens lives and economies, researchers from all disciplines race to understand the various impacts of the virus. Statistics Associate Professor, Xiaohui Chen and...
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2020-05-14 - In the late hours of November 2, 2016, the Chicago Cubs clinched their first World Series win since 1908, a defining moment for any Chicago Cubs fan. For new University of Illinois student Charlie Young, it would prove life changing. That moment sparked a greater interest in baseball analytics for...
2020-05-01 - Statistics Affiliate Professor and Computer Science Teaching Associate Professor, Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider is doing his part to save people by providing easy to understand visuals of crucial data points surrounding the spread of COVID-...
2020-04-28 - The results are in, and GradReports.com has ranked the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the sixth best college for statistics degrees for 2020, second overall for public institutions. Rating over 100,000 college degree programs and taking into...
2020-04-08 - Each term the University of Illinois administers the Chancellor’s Senior Survey to all graduating seniors to better understand their experiences at Illinois. The survey addresses students’ participation in activities and services, student learning outcomes, campus climate, and satisfaction with the...
2020-04-03 - Professor Xiaofeng Shao of the Department of Statistics has been selected as one of the Fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA) this year. The honor will formally be presented to him during the 2020 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) scheduled to be held in Philadelphia, PA on August 1,...
2020-03-09 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for instructor, lecturer, teaching, clinical and visiting assistant/associate/full professor positions in Statistics and Data Science (up to 100% for 9 months). Instructor, lecturer, teaching and clinical professorial positions are continuing...
2020-01-17 - Statistics PhD students, Wei Han and Xinming Yang selected along with eight other competitors from across the nation for the 2020 Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) Student Paper Award sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA). The total of ten winners were selected from a...
2020-01-03 - Assistant Professor of Statistics, Naveen Narisetty, has recently received the distinguished Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most...
2019-12-17 - Professor Xiaohui Chen of Statistics has been awarded the prestigious Simons Fellows in Mathematics award from the Simons Foundation. The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for the Simons Fellows in Mathematics program, to make sabbatical...
2019-11-18 - Dr. Jeff Douglas of Statistics has been elected President of the Psychometric Society for the 2021-2022 term. Professor Douglas will begin his term as President-elect shortly after the 2020 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), which will be held at the University of Maryland,...
2019-11-13 - Associate Professor of Statistics, Xiaohui Chen has been selected as an Associate of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for the 20-21 academic year (pending Board of Trustees approval). CAS Associates are tenured University of Illinois faculty members whose proposals are selected in an annual...
2019-10-30 - The Executive Committee of the Department of Statistics have revealed the list of recipients for the Doctoral Student Teaching Award and the Doctoral Student Leadership and Service Award for 2019. Recipients of the awards will be recognized at the Robert Bohrer Memorial...
2019-10-23 - Senior Lecturer of Statistics, Alex Stepanov was the recipient of the 2019 Teaching Excellence Award by the Illinois Student Government. The Illinois Student Government's Teaching Excellence Awards is a completely student run effort to recognize and thank excellent instructors at the...
2019-10-07 - The Department of Microbiology in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Microbial Data Science. The appointment will be...