Abrahams '21 Wins Best Poster at ICLR
'21 M.A. program alum and current Ph.D.
'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."
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.
Jian Ding (丁剑) has been awarded the 2023 Liné and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability (Loève Prize).
The Department of Statistics in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks applicants for an open rank position at the Assistant or Associate/Full Teaching Professor levels. The position is formally titled Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment (LPSOE), Lecturer with Security of Employment (LSOE), or Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment (Sr. LSOE) depending on qualifications and experience.
The Department of Statistics, in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) at the University of California, Berkeley, currently seeks applicants with outstanding records in Statistics and Data Science for a position at the assistant, associate, or (full) professor rank.
On Saturday, September 23rd the Department of Statistics held the inaugural Alumni Advisory Board event. The day-long event featured an advisory session with the faculty, a panel with student-generated questions, and a breakout session for students.
The UC Berkeley Department of Statistics is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Ryan Giordano, Ph.D. 2019 to the faculty.