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Professor Yun S. Song and alum Jingyi Jessica Li, PhD. ‘13 have been named as 2026 fellows at the International Society for Computational Biology.  

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From Zora Neale Hurston to Jennifer Doudna, winners of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship are known for artistic creations, scientific discoveries and groundbreaking scholarship that fundamentally transform our world.

This year, four UC Berkeley faculty are joining this illustrious group. 

UC Berkeley’s graduate programs in statistics, computer and electrical engineering, and computer science continue to receive high rankings by U.S.

Associate Professor Sam Pimentel was recently awarded a sizable grant by the Huo Family Foundation in conjunction with family online safety company Aura to study the impact of social media on children’s mental health.

Jason Peter Miller, a faculty member at the University of Cambridge's Statistics Laboratory and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the recipient of the 2025 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability.  The prize is awarded every two years and recognizes outstanding contributions by researchers in m

The 2026 AMS-EMS Mikhail Gordin Prize will be awarded to Vadim Gorin from the University of California, Berkeley and Simion Filip from the University of Chicago. The prize is awarded by the American Mathematical Society and the European Mathematical Society. 

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Meet Sequoia Andrade, a second-year Ph.D. student in Statistics at UC Berkeley, whose journey links mathematics, data science, and critical environmental causes. Sequoia's career path highlights the versatility of statistics, moving her from safety engineering at NASA to current research in climate and emissions monitoring.

Assistant Professor Amanda Coston has been awarded a significant research grant by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. 

On a sunny late summer day, UC Berkeley Department of Statistics’ faculty, students, alumni, researchers and industry partners gathered on campus to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the department’s founding.

Statistics Ph.D. student Ruiqi Zhang has been awarded a fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year from Citadel Securities. A gold-level partner with Berkeley Statistics' Industry Alliance Program, Citadel is one of the world's leading securities firms.

The UC Berkeley Department of Statistics community was widely recognized at the Joint Statistical Meeting recently held in Nashville, TN.

Associate Professor Avi Feller has been awarded the 2025 Mid-Career Award by the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for his contributions to causal inference, with groundbreaking and fundamental contributions in areas that include methods for policy evaluation - including randomized trials and synt

Professor Ryan Tibshirani has been named Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, effective July 1st, 2025. 

In May, Statistics held a Special Seminar honoring the legendary Professor David Blackwell (1919-2010), featuring talks by Distinguished Professor Peter Bickel and Associate Professor Will Fithian.

The UC Berkeley Department of Statistics celebrated the graduates of the class of 2025 on Wednesday, May 22nd, at Zellerbach Playhouse on the Berkeley campus. Department Chair Haiyan Huang led commencement activities, which featured an address by Nobel Laureate Guido Imbens.

Current Ph.D. student and alum Daniel Raban (B.A. Mathematics, 2018) was a finalist at the 2025 UC Berkeley Grad Slam competition. Grad Slam is a UC-wide sponsored competition designed to showcase graduate student research in three-minute talks for a general audience.

Distinguished Professor Philip B. Stark has been awarded the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public Interest. The award honors research by faculty that addresses critical needs and issues affecting local, state, national, or global communities.

Distinguished Professor Bin Yu is co-organizing a Workshop on Veridical Data Science. Talk submissions are accepted until April 25, 2025.

https://www.integreat.no/events/public-events/workshops/veridical-data-science.html

Distinguished Professor Steven Evans is serving the spring 2025 semester as a Research Professor in the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures program at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath).

Associate Professor Shirshendu Ganguly has been named a Miller Research Professor for the 2025-26 academic year at UC Berkeley's Adolph C. and Mary Sprague Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science.