News: 2024

June

PhD student, Yu Gui, awarded Harper Dissertation Fellowship

June 18, 2024

Yu Gui, PhD student

PhD student, Yu Gui, has been awarded a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2024-25.
Congratulations, Yu!


May

Our Spring Quarter 2024 graduates

May 16, 2024

Angzhi Fan, PhD

Congratulations and best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2024 graduates!


Congratulations to our Consulting Award recipients for 2023-24

May 15, 2024

Raphael Rossellini and Amber Lee, Consulting Award for 2023-24

Congratulations to our Consulting Award recipients for 2023-24.  Thank you for your participation and hard work!


Veronika Rockova, recipient of the 2024 COPSS Award

May 7, 2024

Veronika Rockova

"For path-breaking contributions to theory and methodology at the intersection of Bayesian and frequentist Statistics in the areas of variable selection, factor models, non-parametric Bayes, tree-based and deep-learning methods, high-dimensional inference, generative methods for Bayesian computation; for exemplary service to Statistics and for generous mentorship of students and post-doctoral researchers."


April

Congratulations to Matthew Oline!

April 19, 2024

Matthew Oline, PhD Student, CCAM

Congratulations to Matthew Oline, PhD student in the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics on receiving a 2023-24 Physical Sciences Teaching Prize.


March

Alumni SPOTLIGHT: Meet Jason Willwerscheid, PhD’21

March 15, 2024


Billingsley Lectures on Probability: Sourav Chatterjee

March 4, 2024

Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford University

We are pleased to have Prof. Sourav Chatterjee, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, as our honored speaker on Thursday, May 2, 2023, at 4:30 PM, Math/Stat 112, 5727 South University Avenue.  A reception will immediately follow the lecture at 5:30 pm, in the Reading Room, Math/Stat 101, 5727 South University Avenue.


Annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Emmanuel Candès

March 4, 2024

Emmanuel Candes

Prof. Emmanuel Candès, the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University, will give the 23rd Annual Bahadur Lectures on Monday, April 29th, 2024, and Wednesday, May 1st, 2024.


February

Winter 2024 Consulting Cup Winners

February 28, 2024

Consulting Cup winners, the Friday Team, John Hood, David Chen, Theodora Ko, and Annie Xie. Congratulations!


Our Winter 2024 graduates

February 23, 2024

Kai Gong, MS Student

Please join us in congratulating our Winter 2024 graduates.


Prof. Yuehaw Khoo awarded a prestigious Sloan Fellowship in 2024

February 21, 2024

Prof. Yuehaw Khoo is among five UChicago scholars awarded a prestigious Sloan Fellowship in 2024.


Prof. Rebecca Willett awarded the SIAM Activity Group on Data Science Career Prize

February 10, 2024

Rebecca Willett, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science

Prof. Rebecca Willett has been awarded the inaugural SIAM Activity Group on Data Science Career Prize (SIAG/DATA Career Prize). 

The prize will be awarded at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS24) to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from October 21 – 25, 2024.


January

Student Research Poster Day: photos from the event!

January 19, 2024

We invite all students (Stat and CAM) and faculty to the Student Research Poster Day


SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science Best Paper Prize 2024

January 19, 2024

Cong Ma

Congratulations to Cong Ma and co-authors Kaizheng Wang, Yuejie Chi, and Yuxin Chen on receiving the 2024 SIAG/Imaging Science Best Paper Prize for their work "Implicit Regularization in Nonconvex Statistical Estimation: Gradient Descent Converges Linearly for Phase Retrieval, Matrix Completion, and Blind Deconvolution" published on Foundations of Computational Mathematics.


 


A warm welcome to Frederic Koehler!

January 16, 2024

Frederic Koehler, Assistant Professor (Jan 1, 2024)

Please join us in welcoming Frederic Koehler to our department as a new assistant professor of Statistics and the Data Science Institute.