12/10/2018 - The Daily Illini -- The gap between data science and computer programming is becoming even smaller. At the University, a new introductory course is being developed to encourage beginners...
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09/26/2018 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois in partnership with LAS has opened a search for a Visiting Instructional Technology Specialist to join our department. The Visiting...
09/06/2018 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months)....
08/31/2018 - Plans for a new statewide innovation network to accelerate job creation and economic growth include building a world-class center devoted to the fast-growing field of data science, U of I System...
08/03/2018 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for lecturer, teaching, clinical and visiting assistant/associate/full professor positions in Statistics and Data Science (up to 100% for 9 months)....
05/30/2018 - The Illinois Student Government hosted their annual Teaching Excellence Awards banquet on Sunday, April 22, at the Illini Union. The Illinois Student Government’s Teaching Excellence Awards is a...
05/15/2018 - Lingrui Gan has been awarded the prestigious Dissertation Completion Fellowship award from the Graduate College for 2018. Lingrui Gan is in his fourth year of study in the PhD program. There were a...
04/25/2018 - Department of Statistics Professor, Yuguo Chen has been selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for 2018. The designation of ASA Fellow...
04/23/2018 - The ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy and the Section on Statistics and the...
03/13/2018 - Current MS in Statistics student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ruixuan (Rachel) Zhou, has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2018 ASA Section of Statistics in Genomics...
03/08/2018 - Young LAS alumni are more quickly finding jobs and other endeavors after graduation. New graduates from LAS are increasingly successful at securing a first destination after college, according to...
02/28/2018 - Professor Xiaohui Chen of Statistics has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his work titled as "Computer-Intensive Statistical Inference on High-Dimensional...
02/16/2018 - The Department of Statistics seeks a full-time (12-month) academic professional as an Academic Advisor. This position reports to the Undergraduate Advising and Professional Development Office and...
01/29/2018 - Lingrui Gan, fourth year Statistics PhD student, has been selected as a winner of the 2018 Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) Student Paper Competition and will be among the possible...
01/16/2018 - Fei Xue, Statistics PhD student, has been selected as a winner of the 2018 Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Award for her paper entitled “Variable Selection for Highly...