News: 2024

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

Congratulations and best wishes to our Spring Quarter 2024 graduates!

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

"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."

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

Our Alumni SPOTLIGHT focuses on Jason Willwerscheid, PhD'21.

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.

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.

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

Please join us in congratulating our Winter 2024 graduates.

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

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.

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