Mehrdad Mohammadi, a Ph.D. candidate in statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received the 2025 Illinois International Graduate Achievement Award. The honor recognizes his impactful international research and service that have made a meaningful difference both on...

 On March 31, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors Karle Flanagan from the Department of Statistics and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider from the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science collaborated with the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for a...

The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is seeking applications for multiple full-time, 9-month Lecturer and Instructor positions as part of a revised and extended search. These career-oriented, teaching-focused roles offer exciting opportunities...

 Eren C. Kızıldağ, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, is exploring statistical-computational trade-offs in large-scale random models and advancing the mathematics of data science to tackle challenges in optimization and inference.What drew you to the field of...

Chan Park, an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studies how to better understand cause-and-effect in complex data. His research addresses challenges like missing information and interconnected data, using advanced...

The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is proud to announce that Bo Yuan has been recognized with a 2025 Distinguished Student Paper Award by the Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SSGG) of the American Statistical Association. This award celebrates...

Despite the unprecedented hardships that accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic, it served as a moment of learning for many scientists and researchers across the globe. In a time of so much uncertainty, these professionals stepped up to the plate to find a solution.  For one such researcher at the...

Karle Flanagan and Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider recently joined Eric Van Dusen and Lauren Chu on The Data Science Education Podcast to discuss the creation and success of STAT 107, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's introductory data science course. They share insights into growing the course...