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...

Professor Frank Quan of Actuarial Science and Risk Management has been appointed as a Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Quan is an affiliate professor of statistics and affiliate of the National...

The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has named Assistant Professor Susu Zhang of Statistics and Psychology as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professor (LEAP) Scholar. The LEAP Scholar designation recognizes Zhang’s significant achievements...

New research by Dr. Susu Zhang and a team of researchers provides fresh insights into when bifactor models—a popular statistical method used to explain psychological phenomena—will and will not generate unique results. Psychologists often use a collection of items—survey questions,...