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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.

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. 

Continuing Lecturer Shobhana Stoyanov was selected by the 2023 UC Berkeley Senior Class Council to deliver the annual Last Lecture, a farewell speech to graduating seniors. The Last Lecture is the final event in a week of activities the council plans for graduates each spring.

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?”