2022
Our 2022-2023 Harper Fellow!
June 7, 2022
Statistics PhD Lijia Zhou has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2022-23.
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching 2022
May 26, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Wei Biao Wu for receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.
Prof. Lek-Heng Lim awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
April 11, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Lek-Heng Lim on being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2022!
Lek-Heng Lim selected as a 2022 SIAM Fellow
April 4, 2022
Prof. Lek-Heng Lim, Department of Statistics, has been selected as a 2022 SIAM Fellow.
The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup Award
March 9, 2022
Congratulations to The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup winner - The Wednesday Team!
Prof. Chao Gao awarded a Sloan Fellowship for 2022
February 15, 2022
Prof. Chao Gao awarded a Sloan Fellowship for 2022
2021
The Fall 2021 Consulting Cup Award
December 2, 2021
Congratulations to The Fall 2021 Consulting Cup winner -- The Thursday Team!
2021-2022 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardee
November 29, 2021
Jongyoon Baik, MS candidate in Statistics, and PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Chicago, has been awarded a 2021-2022 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) by the American Political Science Association for her dissertation research.
Consulting award presentation
July 12, 2021
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.
Consulting award winner!
June 11, 2021
Please join us in congratulating Micól Tresoldi, winner of our consulting award for 2020-2021.
David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
May 24, 2021
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
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
Statistics PhD Pinhan Chen has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-22.
Rebecca Willett selected as a SIAM Fellow for 2021
March 31, 2021
Rebecca Willett selected as a SIAM Fellow for 2021
Prof. Chao Gao receives 2021 IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award
March 15, 2021
Prof. Chao Gao has been selected to receive the 2021 Tweedie New Researcher Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).