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 ...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...