2021
Our Autumn Quarter 2021 graduates
November 17, 2021
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Join us in congratulating our Autumn Quarter graduates!
Our application for Autumn 2022 is open
September 20, 2021
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The application deadline for Autumn 2022 is January 3rd. Read more about our exciting programs of study at our Divisional and Departmental Admissions sites. Questions? Visit our FAQs.
Meet the new members of our department!
August 26, 2021
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Please welcome the newest members of our department, Zhimei Ren, postdoctoral scholar, Cong Ma, assistant professor, and Yandi Shen, William H. Kruskal Instructor
Consulting award presentation
July 12, 2021
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Professors Dan Nicolae and Peter McCullagh presented the Consulting Award certificates to Micól Tresoldi (winner for 2020-2021), and Dongyue Xie (winner for 2019-2020) at 4:15 pm in Jones 110.
Our Summer Quarter 2021 graduates
July 1, 2021
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Congratulations and best wishes to our Summer Quarter 2021 graduates!
Brent Doiron, inaugural director of the Grossman Institute
June 30, 2021
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The PSD profiled Professor Brent Doiron, Departments of Neurobiology and Statistics, as he steps into the new role as inaugural director of the Grossman Institute for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, which seeks to integrate the work of theorists and experimentalists at UChicago spanning the Physical, Biological, and Social Science Divisions towards a better understanding of neural systems.
Consulting award winner!
June 11, 2021
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Please join us in congratulating Micól Tresoldi, winner of our consulting award for 2020-2021.
Our Spring Quarter 2021 graduates
May 24, 2021
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Congratulations and best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2021 graduates!
David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
May 24, 2021
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The Department's David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics is given yearly to graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. The award includes a supplement to the student’s summer support. This year, the award is given to Micol Tresoldi for her research on sparsity in ANOVA and F-ratios, and for her outstanding contributions to the consulting program over the years.
Symposium highlights UChicago collaborations with leading French research center
May 18, 2021
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An online symposium featured 11 presentations by student teams from UChicago and French universities affiliated with the French National Centre for Scientific Research, with questions and discussion from faculty supervisors. Attendees voted to choose the best presentations and awarded two prizes. PSD’s Yi Liu in statistics (pictured) and Maria Douaihy of CNRS – U. Montpellier won second place for “Modeling Transcriptional Bursting in Space and Time.” First place was awarded to Marie Greaney of BSD and Maxime Lehman of CNRS – U. Paris-Saclay for “How is Sensory Information Transformed into Appropriate Motor Control?”
Congratulations to our Harper Fellow!
May 13, 2021
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Statistics PhD Pinhan Chen has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-22.
Victor Veitch, first UChicago data science faculty, builds “safe and credible” AI systems
April 27, 2021
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Victor Veitch, a new assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and the first faculty hire in the University of Chicago’s new data science initiative, wants to see a future of “safe and credible” artificial intelligence. In order to realize that vision, he’s interested in revising the foundations of machine learning so that models work in ways more palatable to humans and human values, instead of today’s black boxes and non-sequitur logic.
Four decades crossing disciplinary lines
March 31, 2021
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Prof. Stephen Stigler retired this past October after a long career that included investigating the history of the development of statistical methods, in relation to problems in many fields—from astronomy to medicine to social sciences and psychology.
Rebecca Willett selected as a SIAM Fellow for 2021
March 31, 2021
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Rebecca Willett selected as a SIAM Fellow for 2021
Prof. Chao Gao receives 2021 IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award
March 15, 2021
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Prof. Chao Gao has been selected to receive the 2021 Tweedie New Researcher Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).