Congratulations to Assistant Professor Susu Zhang on being named a 2024 Outstanding Reviewer by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She was formally recognized at the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting during the Publications Reception, an event celebrating excellence across AERA’s...

 A new interdisciplinary study co-authored by researchers from the statistics and history departments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduces a novel statistical framework for comparing baseball players across different eras. The...

 The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Chan Park has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) New Researcher Travel Award. This prestigious award supports promising early-career researchers within five years of...

 Dear Sweet Little Freshman-Year Victoria, Graduation has always been the end goal. It is always the big thing looming in the background of every day spent here on campus, every memory made here. With each passing year, it becomes a larger and larger reality. You realize all of the things...

 Yuexi Wang, Assistant Professor for the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is revolutionizing how we analyze complex data by merging Bayesian statistics with cutting-edge deep learning. She builds scalable inference tools for real-world...

 Matthew Singh, an assistant professor in the Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explores how nonlinear dynamics and machine learning can untangle the brain's complexity. His work develops personalized brain-stimulation strategies and tackles theoretical challenges in...

 Over 180 student teams filled the Campus Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on March 28–30 to compete in the 2025 Illinois Statistics Datathon, one of the most anticipated data science competitions on campus. This year’s event, hosted in partnership with...