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...
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2021-06-17 - The International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) has selected Yujia Deng - fifth year PhD student - as one of six possible winners of the Student Paper Awards of the ICSA 2021 Applied Statistics Symposium. Deng's paper, titled: Query-augmented Active Metric Learning, ...
2021-05-26 - The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Academic Advising Committee (IlliAAC) has named Statistics Undergraduate Advisor, Aaron Smith, as one of the recipients of the 2021 Outstanding New Advising Professionals. Smith was selected for this award for his dedication, care, and commitment to...
2021-05-26 - During its annual promotion review process, the Campus Committee on Promotion and Tenure identifies exceptional cases of...
2021-05-25 - Multiple Department of Statistics faculty, staff, and students have been named recipients of the LAS Impact Award for recognizing inspiring efforts during COVID-19. Recognizing the dedication and efforts of LAS faculty, staff, and students during the COVID-19 pandemic, the College of Liberal Arts...
2021-05-13 - The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have named this year's Bronze Tablet awardees. Of the 82 graduating seniors to receive this honor, 16 are from the Department of Statistics. Each year, the Bronze Tablet is inscribed with the names of new...
2021-02-16 - The American Statistical Association (ASA) have selected Yangfan Zhang - fourth year PhD student - as one of three winners of the Student Paper Awards of ASA Nonparametric Statistics. Yangfan's paper, titled: Adaptive Inference for Change Points in High-Dimensional Data ...
2021-01-21 - The future of Altgeld Hall and Illini Hall is coming into focus as the University of Illinois moves forward with detailed planning for the $192 million project to modernize and grow spaces devoted to data science and other mathematical and statistical sciences. The Board of Trustees approved...
2020-11-24 - Four professors in the College of LAS have been named Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholars for their leadership and research. Richard Romano (BS, ’54, chemical engineering) and his wife, Margaret, established the program, which provides...
2020-09-15 - College Factual, a collegiate ranking site focused on using the best data available to help students make smart choices with their education and pocketbooks, recently ranked the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as the #4 Best College for Statistics majors for 2021. Part of the...
2020-07-17 - David Blackwell had a distinguished career while living an extraordinary life. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Era, Blackwell’s life is one of inspiration. From the very beginning, Blackwell overcame insurmountable odds to become an...
2020-07-14 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $15.5 million to four universities in Illinois, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to create an institute to bring powerful mathematical ideas to bear on key contemporary scientific and technological challenges. Researchers...
2020-07-08 - Students like Ajay Jain embody what is so unique, important, and binding of students within the field of statistics. The Statistics and Computer Science student at the University of Illinois double majors in Political Science and has his sights set on giving a voice to underrepresented individuals...
2020-06-04 - In the recent May, 2020 issue of UC Berkeley's Data Science Newsletter, Statistics 107: Data Science Discovery - initially led by Karle Flanagan and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider...
2020-06-02 - The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) has selected Yan Liu – third year PhD student in Statistics – to receive the 2020 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award. The purpose of the award is to help partially fund the travel and registration for an awardee to attend and possibly present a...