2023
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."
Please welcome our latest faculty hire
September 18, 2023

Please join us in welcoming Daniel Xiang, as our new assistant instructional professor!
How AI is transforming scientific research, with Rebecca Willett (Ep. 116)
August 16, 2023

Examining the possibilities—and the dangers—of this rapidly developing technology.
Welcome to Xinran Li
August 15, 2023

Please join us in welcoming, Xinran Li, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and the College.
Welcome to our new hires!
August 1, 2023

Please join us in welcoming Tristan Goodwill, Anjali Nair, Siyao Yang, and Yuxin Zhou, our new William H. Kruskal Instructors.
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.
Welcome to our new faculty
July 6, 2023

The Department welcomes two new faculty: Nikolaos (Nikos) Ignatiadis, assistant professor, and Ryan McShane, assistant instructional professor, to the Department of Statistics, and the Data Science Institute.
Axiom’s zero-knowledge proofs might one day help detect deepfakes
July 6, 2023

Prof. Yi Sun discusses his startup Axiom developing technology to quickly and accurately detect deepfakes on the internet.
Guillaume Bal appointed Director of CCAM
July 5, 2023

Guillaume Bal, Professor, Departments of Statistics (CAMI), Mathematics, and the College has been appointed as Director of the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM), effective July 1, 2023.
Faculty accolade: Dan Nicolae
July 5, 2023

Dan Nicolae has been named the Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor.
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.
Matthew Stephens elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society!
May 10, 2023

Our Chair, Matthew Stephens, Ralph W. Gerard Professor, Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, and member of the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society!
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.
Billingsley Lectures on Probability
January 26, 2023

We are pleased to have Prof. Russell Lyons, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, as our honored speaker.
Bahadur Memorial Lectures
January 26, 2023

Prof. Dr. Sara van de Geer, Department of Mathematics, and Seminar für Statistik (SfS), ETH Zürich, will give the 22nd Annual Bahadur Lectures on May 1st and May 4th, 2023. Further details to come.