2019
2020 Class of Fellows of the AMS
November 1, 2019
Lek-Heng Lim, Associate Professor in Statistics and the Computational and Applied Mathematics Initiative, has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2020 for his contributions to applied mathematics, particularly numerical linear algebra.
New initiative brings together AI and science
October 10, 2019
Prof. Rebecca Willett has been leading a new initiative sponsored by the Office for National Laboratories at the University of Chicago to facilitate new collaborations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and basic sciences in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab. Read more...
The Statistics Consulting Program
October 4, 2019
The Department of Statistics Consulting Program is now open and receiving project requests for the new academic year.
Our application for Fall 2020 is now open!
September 23, 2019
Our application for Fall 2020 is now open!
Geometric Learning Bridges Mathematics and Statistics to Marine Biology and Geophysical Sciences
September 5, 2019
Tingran Gao, William H. Kruskal Instructor, has been developing geometric learning frameworks to analyze 3-D scans of complex biological surfaces.
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter Graduates!
August 21, 2019
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter Graduates!
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
June 24, 2019
Consulting Project Award Winner
June 5, 2019
Consulting Project Award Winner
David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
June 4, 2019
PhD candidate, Yuxin Zou, awarded the David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics.
Stephen M. Stigler Awarded the Arthur L. Kelly Prize
June 4, 2019
Prof. Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, has been awarded the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for exceptional service in the Physical Sciences Division.
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
June 3, 2019
We are pleased to congratulate Prof. Steven Lalley for receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring this year.
Congratulations to our Harper Fellow!
May 24, 2019
Statistics PhD Peter Panov has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2019-20. The University-side competition awards financial support toward the completion of the candidate’s dissertation.
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
May 22, 2019
The Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics and the Department of Statistics hosted a series of six lectures on numerical methods in data science and two seminars on deep neural networks in the afternoons of June 17, 19, 21
Best wishes to our Spring Quarter Graduates!
May 21, 2019
Jiageng Liu, MS
Juan Mora, MS
Suchan Park, MS
Gang Qiao, MS
Jasha Sommer-Simpson, MS
Rui Wang, MS
Heqing Ye, MS
Mahtiyar Bonakdarpour, PHD
Joelle Mbatchou, PHD
Fan Yang, PHD
Statistics Fellowship Information Session
May 21, 2019
Karen Rosenthall, the Fellowship Director at UChicagoGRAD, will present a talk about funding opportunities available to Statistics graduate students tailored specifically to our department on Friday, May 31, 2019, at 2:30 PM in Jones 304.