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The UC Berkeley Department of Statistics is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Ryan Giordano, Ph.D. 2019 to the faculty. 

We are seeking applicants for two faculty positions at the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor rank, whose research is at the interface of the computational, statistical, chemical, and physical sciences, including the development and deployment of new materials using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methodology. The two positions to be filled are:

The UC Berkeley Department of Statistics is excited to welcome Alexander Strang as Assistant Teaching Professor. He previously served as Kruskal Instructor at the University of Chicago after receiving his B.A and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve in Cleaveland, Ohio.

Associate Professor Fernando Pérez has been named Faculty Director for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). The appointment will start in July, 2024. As a founding team member of BIDS, Pérez brings a deep understanding of the data science community at Berkeley and a commitment to high profile open-source projects.

Professor Ryan Tibshirani was named the 2023 COPSS Presidents' Award winner at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Toronto, ON.

UC Berkeley Department of Statistics faculty members were widely recognized at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meeting in Toronto, ON.

Distinguished Professor Bin Yu will deliver the 2023 COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lecture (DAAL) (formerly Fisher Lecture) at JSM in Toronto next week on "Veridical Data Sciences towards Trustworthy AI."

Two Sigma is generously sponsoring a PhD fellowship for the academic year 2023-24.

Statistics staffer Ryan Lovett '99 has been named a Jupyter Distinguished Contributor (JDC). Lovett serves as Director of Computing, overseeing the Statistical Computing Facility (SCF).

The new College of Computing, Data Science, and Society will help meet skyrocketing demand for students with data and computer science training.

The UC Board of Regents today voted to establish UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the campus’s first new college in more than 50 years.

A southern California native, Maxwell Weinstein ‘18, has had a lifelong love of numbers and his hometown Los Angeles Dodgers. Even as a child, Weinstein knew he wanted to find a way to make it to the big leagues. Today he serves as Director of Baseball Innovation for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“Baseball is my first love, and statistics is my second. They have flipped a few times.”

Distinguished Professor Bin Yu was interviewed by former Berkeley Statistics Postdoc Merle Behr in the scientific journal KI - Künstliche Intelligenz titled "Building Trust in Medical AI Algorithms with Veridical Data Science."

Computing, Data Science and Society recently profiled 2023 grad Alice Xie, who is double majoring in Statisitcs and Art History. 

When she arrived at Berkeley in 2019, current Statistics Ph.D. student Corrine F. Elliott had already spent nearly a decade in academia asking, “What can we learn about the world from data?”

Professor Giles Hooker will give a keynote address at the 2023 UC Davis Peter Hall Conference on Advances in Statistical Data Science titled "V-Statistics and Variance Estimation: Inference for Random Forests and Other Ensembles."

https://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/hallconference2023/schedule.php

Distinguished Professor Mark van der Laan was part of a team that has been awarded a $100k prize for a long COVID-19 prediction model.

Adjunct Professor and Statistical Computing Consultant Christopher Paciorek has been appointed as a member of a new National Academy of Sciences committee that will consider approaches for estimating probable maximum precipitation (PMP) in a changing climate.

Foraging for food may not be the foundation of our nutrition, but Professor Philip Stark thinks the practice might provide a better way for us to interact with our cities and ecosystems.

Read the complete article from the Berkeley Food Institute.