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

Dr. Joshua Grossman will join the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics as an Acting Assistant Teaching Professor in the fall of 2024. Grossman is a 2024 alum of Stanford, where he earned his Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E), advised by Sharad Goel.

Dr. Amanda Coston will join the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2024. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research on the Machine Learning and Statistics Team. 

Yoav Benjamini, the Nathan and Lily Silver Professor of Applied Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at Tel Aviv University and former Visiting Professor at the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics, has won the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize.

The Society for Science announced that Lester Mackey M.A. '11, has joined the Society’s National Leadership Council (NLC). Formed in 2018, the NLC comprises alumni from the Society’s three science competitions: the Science Talent Search, the International Science and Engineering Fair and its middle school science research competitions.

'21 M.A. program alum and current Ph.D.

Professor Emerita and Professor of the Graduate School Deborah Nolan has been awarded the Berkeley Faculty Service Award by the UC Berkeley Faculty Senate. 

The UC Berkeley Department of Statistics celebrated the graduates of the class of 2024 on Wednesday, May 15th, at Zellerbach Playhouse on the Berkeley campus. Department Chair Haiyan Huang led commencement activities, which featured an address by Professor Kate Crawford. After the ceremony, family and friends joined the graduates for a reception at the Alumni House. 

Associate Teaching Professor Andrew Bray has won a 2024 Instructional Technology and Innovation Micro Grant from the Office of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education for the project “Gradebook: A tool for easy, flexible, and accurate course grades.” The Instructional Technology and Innovation Micro Grant program aims to aid faculty in all

Steve Howard’s early interest lay in programming and was nowhere near statistics. As a high school student, he attended coding camps and competitions. Howard’s internships and other opportunities focused on programming and computer science throughout his education. Notably, Howard never found much interest in statistics growing up despite living under the same roof as a statistician. 

The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy recently announced the year of Open Science Recognition Challenge winners, including Project Jupyter, an open-source computing platform co-founded by Associate Professor Fe

Gradient has announced Statistics Postdoc Soufiane Hayou as the first-ever recipient of the Gradient AI Research Fellowship.

Distinguished Professor Bin Yu and Ph.D. alum Rebecca L. Barter have published an online book titled "Veridical Data Science: The Practice of Responsible Data Analysis and Decision Making."

Assistant Professor Song Mei has won the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The $450,000 grant is for his work around theoretical foundations for deep learning and large-scale AI models.

The Department of Statistics community was involved in the inaugural Statistics Empowering Data Science (SEEDS) Conference on January 12th and 13th in Los Angeles.  The conference was attended by a number of current MA program students and featured a talk by Professor Ryan Tibsh

The Department of Statistics is thrilled to welcome Andrea Massari as a lecturer for the spring 2024 semester. 

The Delphi Research Group, for which Professor Ryan Tibshirani is a principal investigator, was recently awarded $17.5 million to build new data pipelines and statistical tools to support the CDC and state governments during public health emergencies.

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce Ahmed Alaa and Adam Yala have joined Statistics as Affiliated Assistant Professors.

 The Department of Statistics, in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) at the University of California, Berkeley currently seeks applications for a non-tenure-track Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor position. The Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor will be expected to engage in teaching and research and participate in seminars and lectures within the department.