News: 2023

Please join us in welcoming Tristan Goodwill, Anjali Nair, Siyao Yang, and Yuxin Zhou, our new William H. Kruskal Instructors.

Workshop on Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging August 7-10, 2023

University of Chicago professor of computational and applied mathematics Lek-Heng Lim has been awarded the 2023 Vannevar Bush Fellowship, the U.S. Department of Defense’s most prestigious award for basic research. It provides $3 million in funding to support transformative, “blue-sky” research at the limits of today’s technology.

Chao Gao, assistant professor, Department of Statistics, is a recipient of the Noether Early Career Scholar Award for 2023. 

Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on Miaoyan Wang, PhD'15

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.

Prof. Yi Sun discusses his startup Axiom developing technology to quickly and accurately detect deepfakes on the internet.

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

Dan Nicolae has been named the Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor.

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.

Please welcome Cristina Martin-Linares to our department.

Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on Matthew Reimherr, PhD'13.

Congratulations to our Spring 2023 Consulting Cup winners!

Congratulations to the following students for their outstanding participation and contribution to the Consulting Program. 

Robert E. Kass, alumnus of the Department of Statistics, PhD'80, and the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.