2024
Winter 2024 Consulting Cup Winners
February 28, 2024
Consulting Cup winners, the Friday Team, John Hood, David Chen, Theodora Ko, and Annie Xie. Congratulations!
Prof. Yuehaw Khoo awarded a prestigious Sloan Fellowship in 2024
February 21, 2024
Prof. Yuehaw Khoo is among five UChicago scholars awarded a prestigious Sloan Fellowship in 2024.
Prof. Rebecca Willett awarded the SIAG DATA Career prize
February 10, 2024
Prof. Rebecca Willett has been awarded the inaugural SIAG DATA Career prize.
The prize will be awarded at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24) to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from October 21 – 25, 2024.
Student Research Poster Day: photos from the event!
January 19, 2024
We invite all students (Stat and CAM) and faculty to the Student Research Poster Day
SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science Best Paper Prize 2024
January 19, 2024
Congratulations to Cong Ma and co-authors Kaizheng Wang, Yuejie Chi, and Yuxin Chen on receiving the 2024 SIAG/Imaging Science Best Paper Prize for their work "Implicit Regularization in Nonconvex Statistical Estimation: Gradient Descent Converges Linearly for Phase Retrieval, Matrix Completion, and Blind Deconvolution" published on Foundations of Computational Mathematics.
2023
2023 Neumann Prize winner
December 14, 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Stephen M. Stigler on winning the 2023 Neumann Prize for his book, "Casanova's Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance."
Autumn 2023 Consulting Cup Winners
November 29, 2023
Congratulations to the Friday Team!
Prof. Rina Foygel Barber awarded a MacArthur Fellowship
October 4, 2023
"Developing tools to reduce false positives and improve confidence in high-dimensional data models."
Congratulations to Qiaosen Wang!
October 2, 2023
Congratulations to Qiaosen Wang, recipient of the Second Annual Takintayo Akinbiyi Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Statistics.
Chao Gao awarded the Noether Early Career Scholar Award for 2023
July 13, 2023
Chao Gao, assistant professor, Department of Statistics, is a recipient of the Noether Early Career Scholar Award for 2023.
2023 Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division
May 30, 2023
Profs. Dan Nicolae and Michael Franklin are the 2023 recipients of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division.
Aaron Groff wins the Draft-Legal Duathlon National Championships!
April 27, 2023
Aaron Groff, Master's student in the Department of Statistics, wins the Draft-Legal Duathlon National Championships in Irving, Texas, at the 2023 USA Triathlon Multisport National Championships Festival.
An Applied Mathematician With an Unexpected Toolbox
March 3, 2023
Lek-Heng Lim uses tools from algebra, geometry and topology to answer questions in machine learning.
The Winter Consulting Cup Award
March 1, 2023
The Consulting Cup Team Award presentation was held at noon today, Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
2022
2022-2023 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
December 19, 2022
Alexander Strang, William H. Kruskal Instructor in the Department of Statistics and member of the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM), is one of the recipients of the 2022-2023 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.