2022-03-24
- Professor Susu Zhang named as the 2022 National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) recipient of the Alicia Cascallar Award for an Outstanding Paper by an Early Career Scholar. The NCME selected Dr. Zhang for her work in the role and utility of process data in educational measurement. Dr. Zhang develops a coherent and general framework to organize process data into a feature vector and...
2022-01-31 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for instructors, lecturers, teaching track assistant/associate/full professors and clinical track assistant/associate/full professors. Some areas of emphasis include statistical methods for data science, statistical machine learning, computational statistics and informatics. A particular area of emphasis is candidates who can teach modern...
2022-01-14 - Mengchen Wang’s paper, “Bayesian Changepoint Estimation for Spatially Indexed Functional Time Series”, is an honorable mention in the 2022 ENVR Student Paper Competition. Wang, a fourth year PhD student in statistics faced challenging competition, but ultimately became one of five award recipients. The Section on Statistics in the Environment (ENVR) sponsors a student paper competition on the...
2021-12-22 - James Balamuta, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, has been selecting as the winner of the 2022 Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize. The Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize recognizes at most one outstanding Ph.D. dissertation each year, written in any field covered by the journal Psychometrika. Criteria include the originality and rigor of the research, possible...
2021-12-08 - Undergraduate students in the Department of Statistics presented research projects to peers, mentors, and general attendees at the Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Experience in Statistics (URES) Symposium, held on December 8, 2021. Paired with faculty mentors, students selected for the URES program collaborate and develop projects throughout the semester in preparation of presenting their...
2021-11-30 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumnus, Ehsan Bokhari, was recently named the new Assistant General Manager for the Chicago Cubs. The 38-year-old Bokhari graduated from Illinois in 2011 with a Masters in Statistics and in 2014 with a Doctorate in Quantitative Psychology. Bokhari served as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Statistics before heading off for the major...
2021-11-18 - The NetMath program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provides college students and high school students an opportunity to enroll in college level courses to earn credits while learning about various mathematics and statistics topics. From completing calculus requirements, to applied linear algebra, an introduction to probability theory, or statistical analysis, NetMath has over 20...
2021-11-08 - Karle Flanagan, Senior Instructor of Statistics, has recently been named as a CITL Faculty Fellow effective Fall 2021. The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning Faculty Fellowship program seeks unique perspectives and academic interests to assist CITL Staff in identifying faculty needs and reducing barriers to participation in CITL programs, workshops, and events. Supported by the...
2021-10-28 - Lyndsay Shand received her PhD in Statistics from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2017 specializing in spatial-temporal analysis and is now a research statistician at Sandia. At Sandia, Lyndsay continues to conduct and lead research centered around space-time statistics with applications to atmospheric science, climate science and disease modeling to name a few. Specific research...
2021-10-05 - Senior Statistics student, Bingyu Zhou, has been selected to display her artwork at the Illini Union Art Gallery through the month of October. Her show, Scratch Paper Paradise, comprises over 200 drawings that she has done which incorporate the reuse of the scratch paper from her problem sets. While Bingyu has taken many art classes and experimented with various styles throughout her life, she...
2021-09-29 - Two students associated with HQAN got the opportunity to do internships in the quantum computing industry this past summer. Scott Turro and Kaiwen (Kevin) Gui both emerged from their experiences with a better understanding of real-world quantum computing, and better prepared for their future careers. Turro is in his senior year at UIUC, majoring in Statistics with minors in Computer Science...
2021-09-15 - Fifth year Statistics Ph.D. student, Joshua Loyal, has been selected by the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) as a recipient of the 2021 Applied Statistics Symposium poster award. Award consideration open for students, postdocs, junior faculty, or junior statisticians with PhD or terminal degree conferred in 2017 or later, who is also the first author of the poster. Loyal was...
2021-09-15 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for tenure-track assistant professor positions in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months). Areas of emphasis include statistical methods for assessing fairness and racial justice, data science, computational statistics, biological and health sciences, statistical machine learning, causal...
2021-08-20 - The Institute of Mathematics (IMS) recently named University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Statistics-PhD alumni, Dr. Judy Huixia Wang, as one of the 2022 IMS Medallion Lectures. The IMS Committee on Special Lectures invites eight individuals to deliver Medallion Lectures annually. Medallion Lectures are distinct from Invited...
2021-08-05 - The Gies College of Business Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research (ORMIR) at the University of Illinois announced that they are awarding Statistics Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Bo Li with a ORMIR faculty scholar appointment effective August 16, 2021. This appointment provides funding for research that will contribute to the understanding of risk management and help address...