2019-04-16
- Professor Bo Li has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She will be formally presented this honor at a July 30, 2019 awards ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Denver.
A brief biography of Professor Li is given below.
Congratulations to Bo on this accomplishment that honors her outstanding contributions to the advancement of statistical science!
Dr. Bo...
2019-04-15 - Congratulations to Nikola Todorov for being honored as an intern ranked as excellent for his work in LAS 101! LAS 101 is a freshman seminar that is led by accomplished junior and senior interns. These interns run their own class sections and serve as peer mentors. Congratulations to Nikola on a job well done! A brief statement by Nikola is given below: My name is Nikola Todorov and I'm a...
2019-04-08 - We are pleased to announce that our PhD student, Fei Xue has received the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, with their paper titled "Integrating multi-source block-wise missing data in model selection". This award provides funding for travel and registration to attend and possibly present at an IMS-sponsored meeting,...
2019-04-02 - How do you expose students to real world problems and solutions? You can bring the real world to them, which is what happened at the recent Datathon held at the U of I campus. About 250 students came together at the Alice Campbell Alumni Center for a competition coordinated by the Illini Statistics Club, the ...
2019-03-22 - Congratulations to Professor Yuguo Chen and Professor Bo Li who have been approved for named scholar appointments each titled Data Science Founder Professorial Scholar. The named scholars program aims to recognize outstanding members of the faculty and to provide each with a funding allocation to enhance her or his scholarly activities. Professor Chen and Professor Li are richly deserving of this...
2019-02-25 - Instructor Karle Flanagan has won the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff as well as the campus-level award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Ms Flanagan will be honored for these awards in separate ceremonies in April 2019. Karle received her MS degree in Statistics at the University of Illinois in 2013 and began teaching for the Statistics...
2019-02-20 - Professor Annie Qu's groundbreaking work in data science has earned the honor of a named professor title Data Science Founder Professor. Dr. Qu is Professor of Statistics, Affiliated Member of the Institute for Genomic Biology, and Director of the Illinois Statistics Office at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was awarded as Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar by...
2019-02-19 - The University of Illinois is moving forward with plans to expand its leadership in the mathematical sciences by constructing a new building west of the Main Quad by 2022 and renovating Altgeld Hall by 2024. Derek Fultz, director of facilities for the College of LAS, said the university is negotiating an architect contract for the roughly $100 million ...
2019-02-07 - Department of Statistics Assistant Professor, Naveen Narisetty has been selected for the prestigious Fellowship Award in the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for the 2019-2020 academic year. CAS Fellows are untenured University of Illinois faculty members with the rank of assistant professor. With the Professors and Associates, they form the intellectual core of the Center for...
2019-01-24 - Statistics PhD student, Yujia Deng has been selected as one of three runners-up of the 2019 ASA Statistics in Imaging Section Student Paper Competition for his paper titled: "Correlation Tensor Decomposition and Its Application in Spatial Imaging Data". The award will be presented at this year's Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver, Colorado. Yujia is advised by Professor Annie...
2019-01-07 - Statistics PhD student, Yubai Yuan, has been selected as a winner of the 2019 Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “Community Detection with Dependent Connectivity”. The SLDS of the American Statistical Association (ASA) sponsored a student paper competition for the 2019 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) that is to be held in...
2018-12-10 - The Daily Illini -- The gap between data science and computer programming is becoming even smaller. At the University, a new introductory course is being developed to encourage beginners to take an interest in these fields. The pilot launch for a new data science course, STAT 107: Data Science Discovery, is set to take place in the Spring 2019 semester. It will be co-taught...
2018-09-26 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois in partnership with LAS has opened a search for a Visiting Instructional Technology Specialist to join our department. The Visiting Instructional Technology Specialist will help faculty design and create computing systems for use in data science instruction. Working within the Department of Statistics, they will collaborate with...
2018-09-06 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months). Areas of emphasis include statistical methods and computation methods for big data, computational statistics, biological and health sciences, statistical machine learning, causal inference, graphical...
2018-08-31 - Plans for a new statewide innovation network to accelerate job creation and economic growth include building a world-class center devoted to the fast-growing field of data science, U of I System officials announced yesterday. The data science center will be created by replacing the university’s Illini Hall, which currently consists of primarily classrooms, computer labs, and faculty offices,...