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 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?”
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.
