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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.

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. 

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.