2019-05-21
- The University of Illinois’ Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI), formed to catalyze Health Sciences-related activities on campus and with our clinical partners, is seeking a Director, Illinois Biostatistical Core OR Senior Research Biostatistician whose primary...
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2019-05-09 - Professor Bo Li has accepted an offer to serve a three-year term as Chair of the Department of Statistics effective August 16, 2019. It was announced earlier this year that current Chair, Professor Douglas Simpson, would step down from the role when his term expires on August 16. Professor Simpson...
2019-04-22 - On Saturday April 20, the Department of Statistics hosted the “New Challenges and Journeys for Statistics in Science Discovery” workshop. Processor Annie Qu organized the third annual event and it featured prominent statistical researchers from across the country. A diverse set of topics were...
2019-04-16 - Professor Bo Li has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She will be formally presented this honor at a July 30, 2019 awards ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Denver.A brief biography of Professor Li is given below.Congratulations to Bo on this...
2019-04-15 - Congratulations to Nikola Todorov for being honored as an intern ranked as excellent for his work in LAS 101! LAS 101 is a freshman seminar that is led by accomplished junior and senior interns. These interns run their own class sections and serve as peer mentors. Congratulations to Nikola on a job...
2019-04-08 - We are pleased to announce that our PhD student, Fei Xue has received the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, with their paper titled "Integrating multi-source block-wise missing data in model selection". This award provides...
2019-04-02 - How do you expose students to real world problems and solutions? You can bring the real world to them, which is what happened at the recent Datathon held at the U of I campus. About 250 students came together at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center for a competition coordinated by the ...
2019-03-22 - Congratulations to Professor Yuguo Chen and Professor Bo Li who have been approved for named scholar appointments each titled Data Science Founder Professorial Scholar. The named scholars program aims to recognize outstanding members of the faculty and to provide each with a funding allocation to...
2019-02-25 - Instructor Karle Flanagan has won the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff as well as the campus-level award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Ms Flanagan will be honored for these awards in separate ceremonies in April 2019. Karle received her MS...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...