2020
Our Spring Quarter 2020 Graduates
May 22, 2020
Best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2020 graduates!
Rina Foygel Barber wins Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize
March 31, 2020
The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early-career research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly construed. The inaugural recipient of the 2020 Peter Hall Prize is Rina Foygel Barber, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Read more
Our Winter Quarter 2020 graduates!
February 28, 2020
Best wishes to our Winter 2020 graduates!
2019
Faculty accolade
December 30, 2019
Matthew Stephens was named the Ralph W. Gerard Professor, effective January 1, 2020.
Our Autumn Quarter 2019 graduates!
December 12, 2019
Best wishes to our Autumn Quarter 2019 graduates!
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award
November 26, 2019
Congratulations to Prof. Wei Biao Wu for being elected to receive a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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...
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.
Our Summer Quarter 2019 graduates!
August 21, 2019
Best wishes to our Summer Quarter graduates!
Daniel Massatt Awarded the 2019 SIAM Student Paper Prize for PhD Thesis Research
August 5, 2019
William H. Kruskal Instructor Daniel Massatt Awarded the 2019 SIAM Student Paper Prize for PhD Thesis Research
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
June 24, 2019
Consulting Award winner
June 5, 2019
The Department's annual Consulting Award was presented to Ph.D. candidate Keshav Vemuri on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at 1:00 pm in Jones 111.
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.