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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?”

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. 

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.