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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. 

Statistics Chair Haiyan Huang and Ph.D. student Shuni Li have contributed to an article recently published in the journal Nature titled "Population-based heteropolymer design to mimic protein mixtures."

You can learn more via the Berkeley News article, which asks, "Can synthetic polymers replace the body’s natural proteins?"

Statistics Associate Professors Peng Ding and Avi Feller have won the 2023 Emerging Leader Awards from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).

The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) has selected Bin Yu for the 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (DAAL). Formerly known as the R. A.

Professor Sandrine Dudoit (Ph.D. 1999) will give a virtual talk titled "Learning from Data in Single-Cell Transcriptomics" on February 13th for CANSSI, the Canadian Statistical Institute.

Associate Professor Fernando Pérez will give the keynote address at this year's PyData Paris Meetup held at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts.  

Berkeley Statistics is saddened to share the passing of Teaching Professor Emeritus Roger Purves.

A native of Vancouver, Canada, Professor Roger Purves (1935-2023) earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics in 1963. Purves returned to Berkeley two years later and would serve in the Department from 1965-1980 and again from 1986 until his retirement in 2013.

The Department of Statistics is thrilled to welcome Adrián González-Casanova as Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor.

UC Berkeley statistics professor Philip Stark is no stranger to seeing his name in the media. He serves as an expert in response to reporter requests on such wide-ranging subjects as elections, earthquakes, the lottery and gender bias in academia. 

- Written by Matthew Santillan for EECS

We are excited to share the news that Professor Ryan Tibshirani is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Mortimer Spiegelman Award.

We are excited to share that Professor Bin Yu is the inaugural recipient of the IBS/WNAR Outstanding Impact Award!

Last week, we held our commencement for our graduating class of 2022. We heard words from a variety of speakers such as commencement speaker Peng Zhao or graduate student Ishaan Srivastava, and overall celebrated the graduation of over 100 students in total. Read more about the commencement here.

Congratulations to the class of 2022!

In a recent article, author Jon Bashor highlights how Professor Bin Yu and members from her group, including Chandan Singh as her deputy, responded to a call from a nonprofit to provide data science expertise at the onset of the COVID pandemic. Thanks to the combined efforts of her team in collaboration with Response4Life, the predictions of Yu's group helped deliver PPE to where it was most needed.

Two Sigma is generously sponsoring a graduate student fellowship for the academic year 2022-23. This competitive fellowship provides an academic year of support to an exceptional PhD graduate student within the department.

Congratulations to Alice Cima who has been awarded the Two Sigma Fellowship for 2022-23!

We are excited to highlight that Whyjay Zheng, a Berkeley Statistics postdoctoral fellow, has created an improved model of glacial movement that was recently featured in the Berkeley News. The model was published in the journal The Cryosphere.

Whyjay is currently working with Fernando Pérez.

Director of Student Services La Shana Porlaris and Director of Administration Laura Slakey received Excellence in Management (EIM) awards at a campus ceremony Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The EIM award honors exemplary managers and supervisors who have led their teams and team members to meaningful accomplishments this past year. 

We are excited to share that Professor Rasmus Nielsen has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! He is one of six Berkeley faculty members that were elected this year in recognition of their achievements in research. Election to the National Academy of Sciences is a mark of excellence in science and is considered to be one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive. Congrats Professor Nielsen!