2023
Alumni SPOTLIGHT: Meet Shinpei Nakamura Sakai
April 5, 2023
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Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on Shinpei Nakamura Sakai, SM'19.
Alumni SPOTLIGHT: Meet Stefano Castruccio
March 10, 2023
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Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on Stefano Castruccio, PhD'13.
An Applied Mathematician With an Unexpected Toolbox
March 3, 2023
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Lek-Heng Lim uses tools from algebra, geometry and topology to answer questions in machine learning.
The Winter Consulting Cup Award
March 1, 2023
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The Consulting Cup Team Award presentation was held at noon today, Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Solution to Puzzle 42!
February 27, 2023
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Congratulations to Soham Bonnerjee, PhD candidate, Department of Statistics, for solving both parts of Puzzle 42!
Alumni SPOTLIGHT: Meet Ayman Moawad
February 17, 2023
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Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on Ayman Moawad, SM'20.
Billingsley Lectures on Probability
January 26, 2023
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We are pleased to have Prof. Russell Lyons, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, as our honored speaker.
Bahadur Memorial Lectures
January 26, 2023
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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.
Alumni SPOTLIGHT: Meet Mengyu Xu
January 3, 2023
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Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on MENGYU XU, PhD'16.
2022
2022-2023 Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
December 19, 2022
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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.
New Schmidt Futures Fellowship at UChicago to Foster Next Generation of AI-Driven Scientists
October 26, 2022
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The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Futures, will train the next generation of scientists combining research in both AI and science fields, including physics, astronomy and biology.
Photo courtesy of the Department of Computer Science.
Welcome to Thuyen Dang
September 1, 2022
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Thuyen Dang is our new William H. Kruskal Instructor.
UChicago/Argonne Researchers Will Cultivate AI Model “Gardens” With $3.5M NSF Grant
August 30, 2022
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Project including Ben Blaiszik, Ian Foster, Eliu Huerta, and Rebecca Willett of UChicago CS will build a new platform to curate AI models and make it simple to test and deploy these powerful tools for science.
UChicago Co-Leads $10 Million NSF Institute on Foundations of Data Science
August 9, 2022
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The Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (IDEAL), a multi-institutional collaboration of Chicago universities studying the foundations and applications of data science, was expanded and renewed for five years through a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Courtesy of Rob Mitchum (Department of Computer Science and the Data Science Institute).
Our Summer Quarter 2022 graduates
July 10, 2022
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Congratulations to our Summer Quarter 2022 graduates!