2017-05-30
- Annie Qu, professor of Statistics, has been named a Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar starting May 2017. The position is intended for individuals with expertise and academic abilities in the mathematical sciences. The professorial scholar title was made possible by a generous donation by Brad and Karen...
2017-02-09 - Xichen Huang's paper, "Scalable Bayesian Learning for Sparse Logistic Models", has been selected as one of the winners of this year's student paper competition, from the Section on Statistical Computing. The award will be presented at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings, which are being held July 29 to August 3, 2017, in Baltimore, Maryland. This presentation consists of two separate events:...
2017-01-27 - Statistics PhD student Xiwei Tang was selected for the prestigious travel award by the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the ASA to present a paper at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland. Xiwei is advised by Professor Annie Qu.
2017-01-27 - Statistics PhD student, Weihong Huang has been selected as one of the winners of this year's student paper competition from the ASA Section on Statistical Computing. The award will be presented at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland. Weihong is advised by Professor Yuguo Chen.
2017-01-27 - Statistics PhD student, Subhadeep Paul has been selected as one of the runner-up winners of this year's student paper competition from the ASA Statistics in Imaging Section Student Paper Competition. The award will be presented at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland. Subhadeep is advised by Professor Yuguo Chen.
2017-01-01 - 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 statistics, biological and health sciences, statistical machine learning, causal inference, graphical...