By: David Apilado, Jr. Photo By: David Apilado Jr.
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.
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.