2018-04-25
- Department of Statistics Professor, Yuguo Chen has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for 2018. The designation of ASA Fellow has been a significant honor for nearly 100 years. Under ASA bylaws, the Committee on...
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2018-04-23 - The ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy and the Section on Statistics and the Environment sent four statisticians to the eighth annual Climate Science Day (CSD)...
2018-03-13 - Current MS in Statistics student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ruixuan (Rachel) Zhou, has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2018 ASA Section of Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Distinguished Student Paper Awards. This award is given out annually to only...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...