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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.

Assistant Professor Song Mei has been named a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship recipient. Read more via UC Berkeley Public Affairs.

Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School Michael I. Jordan has been named a Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate. The 17th edition of the award recognizes and rewards excellence in research and cultural creation, especially contributions that have achieved broad impact due to their originality and significance.

The White House has announced President Joseph Biden awarded Berkeley Statistics alum Tamara Broderick, Ph.D. '14, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.

The Department of Statistics held the Berkeley Statistics Annual Research Symposium (BSTARS) on November 14th at California Memorial Stadium. The event brought together the Berkeley Statistics community and its industry partners to survey the department's latest research developments and emphasize possible applications to statistical problems encountered in industry.

Assistant Professor Jacob Steinhardt has co-founded Transluce, a non-profit AI research lab. Transluce is building open, scalable technology to understand AI systems and steer them in the public interest.

Arash Jamshidpey and Evan Munro joined the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics as Neyman Visiting Assistant Professors in the fall of 2024.

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.

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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.