The Statistics Ambassadors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are a group of students who are passionate about statistics and are dedicated to helping their peers succeed. In their latest blog post on the Statistics Ambassador blogsite, Statistics Ambassadors Mingli Xu and Botao Huang have compiled a short list of their favorite courses, which they recommend to students of all...
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The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is actively seeking qualified candidates to fill multiple faculty positions across various areas of Statistics, Neuroinformatics, and Data Science. These positions are part of the Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and present exciting opportunities for academics looking to make a significant impact in their...
“Our lives and the things that we value as humans are all impacted every day by the decisions and predictions made by algorithms which are typically at least explicitly only optimizing for just the single human value: accuracy,” stated Tori Ellison. Tori Ellison has been a teaching assistant professor in the Statistics department since 2020. She currently teaches STAT...
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- Joe Bonomo (BS, ‘12, statistics) has a number of skills listed on his resume. However, he’s built his career on being a creative problem solver, a skill...
- Professor Bo Li of the Department of Statistics has been named a recipient of the Marjorie Roberts Professorship. This distinguished honor from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recognizes Professor Li's contributions to scholarship, her...
- The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's prestigious Doctoral Student Teaching Award. The annual award, presented at the department's banquet on September 15, 2023, recognizes outstanding graduate teaching assistants who have...
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Alumni Spotlight: Karle Flanagan ('12, '13) - Senior Instructor, Department of Statistics at University of Illinois
My name is Karle Flanagan and I am a Senior Instructor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have taught introductory statistics to over 20,000 students at UIUC since Spring of 2014. I am currently still teaching introductory...