2020-04-28
- The results are in, and GradReports.com has ranked the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the sixth best college for statistics degrees for 2020, second overall for public institutions. Rating over 100,000 college degree programs and taking into account data from the U.S. Department of Education’s resources on over 5 million graduates across the...
2020-04-08 - Each term the University of Illinois administers the Chancellor’s Senior Survey to all graduating seniors to better understand their experiences at Illinois. The survey addresses students’ participation in activities and services, student learning outcomes, campus climate, and satisfaction with the Illinois experience, including asking students to “name one faculty or staff member who made a...
2020-04-03 - Professor Xiaofeng Shao of the Department of Statistics has been selected as one of the Fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA) this year. The honor will formally be presented to him during the 2020 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) scheduled to be held in Philadelphia, PA on August 1, 2020. ASA Fellows The designation of ASA Fellow has been a...
2020-03-09 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for instructor, lecturer, teaching, clinical and visiting assistant/associate/full professor positions in Statistics and Data Science (up to 100% for 9 months). Instructor, lecturer, teaching and clinical professorial positions are continuing specialized faculty appointments renewable subject to performance and funding. Visiting positions can be...
2020-01-17 - Statistics PhD students, Wei Han and Xinming Yang selected along with eight other competitors from across the nation for the 2020 Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) Student Paper Award sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA). The total of ten winners were selected from a record number of 60 entrants this year. Professor Yun Yang advises Wei Han and Professor Naveen...
2020-01-03 - Assistant Professor of Statistics, Naveen Narisetty, has recently received the distinguished Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role...
2019-12-17 - Professor Xiaohui Chen of Statistics has been awarded the prestigious Simons Fellows in Mathematics award from the Simons Foundation. The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for the Simons Fellows in Mathematics program, to make sabbatical research leaves more productive by extending them from a single term to a full academic year. Awards...
2019-11-18 - Dr. Jeff Douglas of Statistics has been elected President of the Psychometric Society for the 2021-2022 term. Professor Douglas will begin his term as President-elect shortly after the 2020 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), which will be held at the University of Maryland, July 14-17, 2020. As President-elect he will begin his tenure on the executive committee of the...
2019-11-13 - Associate Professor of Statistics, Xiaohui Chen has been selected as an Associate of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for the 20-21 academic year (pending Board of Trustees approval). CAS Associates are tenured University of Illinois faculty members whose proposals are selected in an annual competition. These appointments grant one semester of teaching release time in order to pursue an...
2019-10-30 - The Executive Committee of the Department of Statistics have revealed the list of recipients for the Doctoral Student Teaching Award and the Doctoral Student Leadership and Service Award for 2019. Recipients of the awards will be recognized at the Robert Bohrer Memorial Student Workshop in Statistics in April 2020. This is the inaugural year for both of these awards...
2019-10-23 - Senior Lecturer of Statistics, Alex Stepanov was the recipient of the 2019 Teaching Excellence Award by the Illinois Student Government. 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. The Teaching Excellence Award is the highest honor that the Illinois Student...
2019-10-07 - The Department of Microbiology in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Microbial Data Science. The appointment will be shared between the Departments of Microbiology and Statistics. Specifics of the appointment will be...
2019-10-07 - 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 data science, computational statistics, biological and health sciences, statistical machine learning, causal inference, graphical models and sampling...
2019-09-16 - The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is searching for a full-time tenure track Assistant Professor of Psychology/Assistant Professor of Statistics (joint appointment) whose research interests are statistical methods in the analysis of behavior. Primary research interests can include any area of quantitative methods or quantitative modeling in the social and behavioral sciences,...
2019-08-06 - With an ever-growing demand and interest in the field of statistics, the need for additional faculty and staff to meet this demand is critical in order to educate future data scientists and statisticians of the world. That is why the Department of Statistics at Illinois is pleased to announce the additional faculty and academic professionals joining the department this fall! Expanding not only...