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...
I work as a software engineer working with a lot of the largest banks in the world to streamline how much work it takes for international payments and make it more automated.
What is your...
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...
In my role as a data scientist, I work on predictive modeling and machine learning solutions for Rocket Mortgage. The work ranges from developing new data science models that optimize the efficiency...
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,...
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) has announced the selection of Professor Yuguo Chen to the 2024 IMS Fellows list. Chen was chosen for his substantive and sustained contributions to Monte Carlo methods, network data analysis and statistical computing, and exceptional and extensive...
