04/16/2019 - Professor Bo Li has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She will be formally presented this honor at a July 30, 2019 awards ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meeting in...
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04/15/2019 - Congratulations to Nikola Todorov for being honored as an intern ranked as excellent for his work in LAS 101! LAS 101 is a freshman seminar that is led by accomplished junior and senior interns....
04/08/2019 - We are pleased to announce that our PhD student, Fei Xue has received the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, with their paper titled "Integrating multi-source...
04/02/2019 - How do you expose students to real world problems and solutions? You can bring the real world to them, which is what happened at the recent Datathon held at the U of I campus. About 250 students...
03/22/2019 - Congratulations to Professor Yuguo Chen and Professor Bo Li who have been approved for named scholar appointments each titled Data Science Founder Professorial Scholar. The named scholars program...
02/25/2019 - Instructor Karle Flanagan has won the LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Instructional Staff as well as the campus-level award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Ms ...
02/20/2019 - Professor Annie Qu's groundbreaking work in data science has earned the honor of a named professor title Data Science Founder Professor. Dr. Qu is Professor of Statistics, Affiliated Member of the...
02/19/2019 - The University of Illinois is moving forward with plans to expand its leadership in the mathematical sciences by constructing a new building west of the Main Quad by 2022 and renovating Altgeld Hall...
02/07/2019 - Department of Statistics Assistant Professor, Naveen Narisetty has been selected for the prestigious Fellowship Award in the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) for the 2019-2020 academic year. CAS...
01/24/2019 - Statistics PhD student, Yujia Deng has been selected as one of three runners-up of the 2019 ASA Statistics in Imaging Section Student Paper Competition for his paper titled: "Correlation Tensor...
01/07/2019 - Statistics PhD student, Yubai Yuan, has been selected as a winner of the 2019 Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “Community Detection with...
12/10/2018 - The Daily Illini -- The gap between data science and computer programming is becoming even smaller. At the University, a new introductory course is being developed to encourage beginners...
09/26/2018 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois in partnership with LAS has opened a search for a Visiting Instructional Technology Specialist to join our department. The Visiting...
09/06/2018 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months)....
08/31/2018 - Plans for a new statewide innovation network to accelerate job creation and economic growth include building a world-class center devoted to the fast-growing field of data science, U of I System...
