Fueled by determination, problem-solving ingenuity, and a few slices of pizza, 113 teams took on the challenge of the 2024 Illinois Statistics Datathon. The annual event, sponsored by Synchrony in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratory, invited students from all levels across campus to put...

In November 2023, Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider and Karle Flanagan spent a full day at the Discovery Partners...

It’s been almost a year since workers lifted the cornerstone of Illini Hall. It was a momentous event, occurring during the building’s demolition that marked the opening phase of the Altgeld and Illini Hall Project. A crowd of...

In the high-impact world of professional football, player health and safety are of utmost concern. Behind the scenes, data scientists like Illinois alumna, Ishani Desai (BS, '22, statistics and computer science) play a critical role leveraging analytics to track equipment, identify trends, and...

Christopher Qian, a doctoral student in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been named a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program award. The SCGSR Program is a highly competitive award...