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