News: Research

Statistics PhD Pinhan Chen has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-22.

Victor Veitch, a new assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and the first faculty hire in the University of Chicago’s new data science initiative, wants to see a future of “safe and credible” artificial intelligence.  In order to realize that vision, he’s interested in revising the foundations of machine learning so that models work in ways more palatable to humans and human values, instead of today’s black boxes and non-sequitur logic.

Prof. Stephen Stigler retired this past October after a long career that included investigating the history of the development of statistical methods, in relation to problems in many fields—from astronomy to medicine to social sciences and psychology. 

Rebecca Willett selected as a SIAM Fellow for 2021

Prof. Chao Gao has been selected to receive the 2021 Tweedie New Researcher Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Read about our PhD student, Ahmed Bou-Rabee and his research, experiences, and future career plans.

Best wishes to our Winter Quarter 2021 graduates!

PhD candidate, Yi Liu, has been awarded the prestigious SBSS Student Paper Award.

The Department of Statistics mourns the passing of Leo Goodman.

We are excited to welcome David Biron, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor and Victor Veitch, Assistant Professor, to our department.

Rina Foygel Barber has been named the Louis Block Professor.

Best wishes to our Autumn Quarter 2020 graduates!

The Department is excited to welcome our new faculty hire...READ MORE

Professor Rebecca Willett of the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, along with Professors Rina Foygel Barber and Mary Silber from Statistics, will help the four-university collaboration establish the maturing field of data science while also advancing machine learning and other artificial intelligence approaches.