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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2021-08-03 - Hannah Holscher, PhD, RD, is an Associate Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and the Division of Nutritional Sciences. She also has affiliate...
2021-07-23 - The first annual Blackwell Summer Scholars Program finished on July 2, 2021, with the Blackwell Scholars student presentation event. The program witnessed fourteen scholars embark on a six-week-long journey as they worked together on an assortment of projects, culminating with their research...
2021-07-21 - Department of Statistics PhD student, Joshua Loyal, has been selected for the 2021 International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) Best Student/Postdoc Contributed Paper Award, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Loyal’s paper, titled: An Eigenmodel for Dynamic...
2021-07-19 - The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has appointed Statistics Professor, Xiaofeng Shao, as the newest Data Science Founder Scholar. The named scholars program aims to recognize outstanding members of the faculty and to provide each with a...