News: Faculty

2020

Welcome new faculty hires!

July 1, 2020

The Department is excited to welcome the following new hires:  Brent Doiron, Claire Donnat, Jeremy Hoskins, Alisa Knizel, Yi Sun, and Pierre Yves Gaudreau Lamarre.


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


2019

Faculty accolade

December 30, 2019

Matthew Stephens, Ralph W. Gerard Professor

Matthew Stephens was named the Ralph W. Gerard Professor, effective January 1, 2020. 


Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award

November 26, 2019

Wei Biao Wu, Professor

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, Professor

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

Rebecca Willett, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science

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...


RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science

June 24, 2019

David Bindel, Visiting Scholar


Stephen M. Stigler Awarded the Arthur L. Kelly Prize

June 4, 2019

Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor

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.


Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

June 3, 2019

Steven Lalley, Professor Emeritus

We are pleased to congratulate Prof. Steven Lalley for receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring this year.


Per Mykland Chosen as Guggenheim Fellow

April 15, 2019

Per Mykland, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor

Per A. Mykland, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor in Statistics and Finance, has been named a recipient of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.


Rebecca Willett—IEEE Award for Best Paper

January 30, 2019

Rebecca Willett, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science

Prof. Rebecca Willett and co-author Eric C. Hall received the "2018 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for their article "Online Convex Optimization in Dynamic Environments." Congratulations, Becca, on recognition of your ongoing research!


Gregory Lawler awarded Wolf Prize

January 23, 2019

Gregory F. Lawler

Prof. Gregory Lawler is a 2019 recipient of the highly prestigious Wolf Prize in mathematics for pioneering research in the use of probability.


Award-winning faculty

January 15, 2019

Lek-Heng Lim

Prof. Lek-Heng Lim has been awarded the prestigious Hans Schneider Prize for 2019 by the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS). The Society acknowledges the best scholarship in this area of mathematical research triennially.


2018

Congratulate our student women in science

December 20, 2018


Billingsley Lectures on Probability

October 10, 2018

Prof. Allan Sly from Princeton University will speak on "Phase Transitions of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems" for the 7th Billingsley Lecture on Probability.