Professor Vimal Rao of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Department of Statistics is a recipient of an Illinois Center for Social & Behavioral Science (CSBS) Small Grant award for his innovative...

The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is thrilled to welcome six new faculty members, each bringing a unique blend of research expertise and academic excellence to the department. Their arrival underscores the department's commitment to advancing the field...

The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce new leadership for the upcoming academic year. Professor Yuguo Chen will serve as Interim Chair of the department for the 2024-2025 academic year, succeeding Professor Bo Li, who has held the...

The 4th Annual Blackwell Summers Scholars Program concluded on August 1st with a research symposium at the Illini Union. The forum marks another successful year of research and collaboration for the scholars in the program named in honor of the esteemed mathematician and Illinois alum Dr. David H....

The groundbreaking legacy of STAT 107/CS 107: Data Science Discovery will be remembered for the ages. The University of Illinois Alumni Association recently revealed the 2024 syllabus for Data Science Discovery as one of ten items to be included in the sesquicentennial time capsule. The chosen...

Timothy Chin (BS, '18 statistics; MS, '20 statistics) is a data scientist for Rocket Mortgage where he works on predictive modeling and machine learning solutions for the mortgage lending company. The work ranges from developing new data science models that optimize the efficiency of the...

Statistics professors Kelly Findley and Vimal Rao were recently named recipients for a grant through the Provost's Initiative on Teaching Advancement (PITA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  PITA grants are awarded to project proposals designed with a high likelihood...