2023-02-02
- The American Statistical Association (ASA) have named two Illinois Statistics-PhD students as recipients of ASA Student Paper Competition awards. Rong Tang and Rentian Yao are among the award winners of their respective categories based on the quality and content of their submissions.
Tang, a fifth-year PhD student, has been named as one of the three winners of the ASA Nonparametric Statistics...
2023-01-30 - On December 7th, students and faculty gathered for the Fall 2022 Undergrad Research Symposium. URES allows students to work with experienced faculty on a research project, which is then presented at the end-of-semester event. I visited the Campus Instructional Facility to see the different types of research that had been conducted this semester. I first spoke with Gillian Gabriel, the event’s...
2023-01-24 - Two Statistics PhD students were recognized for their exceptional work at the 2022 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) conference. Fourth-year PhD student, Kaustav Chakraborty, received third place in the Student Poster Competition for his research entitled "Efficient Model Fitting and Two-Sample Testing for Large Networks via Subsampling." The selection of poster award...
2023-01-09 - Karle Flanagan and Alex Stepanov have been chosen as the inaugural recipients of the Department of Statistics Award for Excellence in Instruction. This award recognizes the impact that instructors have on their students by taking a holistic approach to understanding how faculty members facilitate the learning experience. The award will be presented at the Spring 2023 Bohrer Workshop in April. The...
2023-01-09 - Professor Naveen Narisetty was honored with the inaugural Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Sciences (ECASDS) at the Indian International Statistical Association (IISA) conference, held from December 26-30, 2022 in Bangalore, India. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of statistics and data science by IISA members and replaces the Young Statistical Scientist Award...
2022-12-19 - There is a fascinating, intricate science behind America’s favorite pastime. Statistics and data science have quickly become a vital asset to MLB organizations. If this interests you, you may enjoy the new Stat 430: Baseball Analytics with Professor Daniel Eck. Even if you aren’t particularly a sports fan, this course offers a multitude of skills which could be applied to other careers in data...
2022-12-13 - After the onset of COVID-19, policymakers were dismayed by many people who avoided personal and public safety measures designed to curb the spread of the virus. Many social scientists mobilized to better understand this behavior, including Jake Bowers, a professor of political science and statistics...
2022-11-03 - The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination period for the inaugural Excellence in Instruction Award. The Statistics Department Award for Excellence in Instruction recognizes consistently outstanding instruction by a faculty member of the Statistics department. This award is given annually to honor a faculty member in the department who epitomizes the highest...
2022-11-02 - Yubo Zhuang, second-year Statistics-PhD student, was recently notified of being awarded a 2022 NeuIPS 2022 Scholar Award for his paper titled “Wasserstein K-means for clustering probability distributions.” The Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022) is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers in machine learning,...
2022-10-31 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for multiple specialized faculty positions (100% for 9 months) that support our growing statistics, statistics & computer science, and data science programs on campus. All areas of teaching expertise will be considered, but areas of priority include introductory statistics, machine learning, data and software engineering, or statistical...
2022-10-31 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for an open rank faculty (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor) position in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months). All areas of Statistics and Data Science are welcome. The anticipated starting date is August 16, 2023. Salary is competitive. The Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences...
2022-10-07 - New research by Dr. Susu Zhang and a team of researchers provides fresh insights into when bifactor models—a popular statistical method used to explain psychological phenomena—will and will not generate unique results. Psychologists often use a collection of items—survey questions, physiological measurements, ratings, or clinical observations— to measure psychological phenomena...
2022-09-30 - Sihai Dave Zhao (GNDP), an associate professor of statistics, has been appointed the Director of Computational Genomics at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Zhao has been a member of the IGB for over eight years, joining the year he came to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At the IGB he develops analysis strategies for genomic data, improves statistical applications in...
2022-07-08 - The second annual Blackwell Summer Scholars program concluded on July 1, 2022, with the scholars presenting research projects they developed over the six-week workshop. Named for University of Illinois Mathematics alumnus, David H. Blackwell, the Blackwell Summer Scholars program intends to honor the legacy of the world-renowned scholar of mathematics and statistics. Created to increase access...
2022-06-29 - Assistant Professor Xinran Li is a recipient of the 2022 International Chinese Statistical Associate (ICSA) Outstanding Young Research Award. The ICSA Outstanding Young Researcher Award honors ICSA members who received a doctoral degree dated 2016 or later and has demonstrated outstanding research in statistical theory, methodology and/or applications and potential for continued success...