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).
2017-11-14 - The Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science / Nonparametric Statistics is to be held at Columbia University, from June 4 to 6 in 2018. The main goal of the conference is to bring together researchers in statistical machine learning and data mining from academia, industry, and government in a relaxed and stimulating atmosphere to focus on the development of statistical learning theory...
2017-11-03 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Statistics ranked 3rd in Statistics Bachelor's Degrees awarded consistently through 2011-2015 according to a recent Science Policy article posted on AMSTATNews (The Membership Magazine of the American Statistical...
2017-09-21 - NISS is proud to honor former postdoctoral fellows, Dr. Shanti Gomatam and Dr. Minge Xie, with the 2017 NISS Postdoc Achievement Award. The awards were presented to Gomatam and Xie at the 2017 NISS JSM Reception. The NISS Awards Committee made the selection decision after a series of discussions led by Christy Chuang-Stein, NISS Board Member, who chaired the awards committee. She commented...
2017-09-15 - The University of Illinois is embarking on a project to restore and renovate both Altgeld Hall and its neighbor across Wright Street, Illini Hall. Funds from the state, campus, and private donors will support the projected $90-100 million cost of the renovations. We invite you to partner with other alumni and friends to build the future for our campus and its students, as well as for these...
2017-09-15 - The University of Illinois has launched a new effort—the Illinois Data Science Initiative (iDSI). In the coming months the iDSI is hosting a series of summits for researchers from across the campus to share expertise and learn more about what others are doing. ATTEND A SUMMIT The Illinois Data Science Initiative is hosting summits with focus on various data science subjects. Attend one summit...
2017-09-15 - CHAMPAIGN – Research Park’s most influential and valuable interns were honored on Thursday, July 27, 2017 at the Research Park Summer Intern Picnic. Almost 600 highly skilled students work for Research Park tenant companies, where they gain valuable work experience and make significant contributions to internal corporate research and development programs. They also are able to work on...