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.
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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 ...
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...
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...
2022-10-31 - 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...
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...
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,...
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-...
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...
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...
2022-06-06 - Assistant Professor Naveen Narisetty receives the Helen Corley Petit Scholars position for early career scholars. Recipients of the named scholar are awarded based on their contributions in education and research at the University of Illinois. The Helen Corley Petit Scholars is made possible...
2022-06-03 - Earlier this year, we had an opportunity to catch up with Illinois alumna, Krti Tallam for a virtual Stat Chat. After graduating from Illinois in 2018, earning a bachelor degrees in statistics and natural resources and environmental sciences with a concentration in fish, wildlife, and conservation...
2022-06-01 - Statistics-PhD student, Wenzhuo Zhou is a recipient of the 2022 MassMutual Student Research Award from the New England Statistical Society (NESS). Zhou’s paper, titled “Estimating Optimal Infinite Horizon Dynamic Treatment Regimes via pT-Learning”, was one of ten papers selected from over...
2022-04-29 - Katy Miles, senior and student employee in Statistics, was recognized for her excellence at the 2022 Student Employee and Tutor of the Year Recognition Event, hosted by the Office of Student Financial Aid. The event, held on April 14 as part of National Student Employment Week, is designed to...
2022-04-25 - Held at the I-Hotel & Conference Center, the 2022 Bohrer Memorial Student Workshop in Statistics returned to tradition on April 23, 2022. The 2022 Bohrer Workshop would be the first workshop since 2018 to be held in-person. Department of Statistics Chair, Bo Li, kicked off the festivities...