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Statistics faculty Nick Jewell and his daughter Britta Jewell have another article in the New York Times on "The Huge Cost of Waiting to Contain the Pandemic".

Professor Bin Yu and her team are developing models to connect hospitals with needed supplies. Their work with the nonprofit organization Response4Life is described in this news article from the College of Engineering. 

The new Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) received an anonymous $252 million anchor gift for the construction of the Data Hub building. The Data Hub, on the site of the old Tolman building, will be the brick-and-mortar home of data science on campus.

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The Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach the following courses should an opening arise. Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from semester to semester including summer sessions, depending upon the needs of the Department. Positions may range from 33% to 100% time.

The newest release of the H2O software was named after Bin Yu: H2O v3.28, code name “Yu”.

H2O.ai (https://www.h2o.ai) is a company that provides an open-source distributed computing platform for AI.

Congratulations Bin on this cool honor!

Associate Provost and Dean Chayes and EVCP Alivisatos announced the official name of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society.

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Peng Ding and Shirshendu Ganguly on their NSF CAREER Awards.

NSF TEACHING POSTDOC POSITION  - DEADLINE FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Congratulations to Ashwin Pananjady for winning the IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award.

Ashwin Pananjady is a PhD student in EECS, co-advised by Martin Wainwright and Thomas Courtade. This competitive award is given annually to three PhD students who will present their work at an invited session as part of the IMS Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to Statistics PhD students Olivia Angiuli, Eli Ben-Michael, Bryan Liu, and Zoe Vernon on winning the $20K first place prize at the 2019 Berkeley Datathon sponsored by Citadel. They will be going to the Data Open Championship in 2020 to compete for the $100K grand prize (for which Statistics PhD students Soren Kunzel and Jake Soloff were on the winning team two years ago).

UC Berkeley Professors Fernando Pérez and Laurel Larsen (Geography) and team-members Lindsey Heagy, Chris Holdgraf, and Yuvi Panda, were awarded an NSF Earth Cube grant for their project “Jupyter meets the Earth: Enabling discovery in geoscience through interactive computing at scale.” This project is in partnership with

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

The Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for at least one Associate or Full Professor position, in all areas of Probability, Statistics, and Data Science, with an expected start date of July 1st, 2020. Associate Professor and Full Professor positions carry tenure.

 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

The Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for at least one Assistant Professor position, in all areas of Probability, Statistics, and Data Science, with an expected start date of July 1st, 2020. Assistant Professor positions are regarded as tenure-track.

Bin Yu is the recipient of the 2018 Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation, awarded by the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University. Bin will visit Texas A&M on Thursday, September 5th to receive the award and give a lecture. Congratulations Bin on another impressive award!

Wonderful documentary, article, and podcast on Philip Stark's involvement in the Berkeley Open Source Food project and urban foraging. 

Amanda Glazer's interview of Adjunct Professor Lisa Goldberg, "The Sustaining Thread of Mathematics: An Interview with Lisa Goldberg", is featured in the Berkeley Science Review: A very thoughtful conversation about a career in mathematics i

The Berkeley Statistics mixer at JSM 2019 had a great turn-out as usual and people had a fun time catching up and sharing news: professional and personal. As the host, Bin Yu updated everyone with department news especially about data science. Tamara Broderick, as the photo master, organized a wonderful photo shoot again. Thanks to everyone for coming!

Professor Ani Adhikari is the recipient of a 2019 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs.

This award "is presented annually to faculty members who have provided outstanding pedagogical mentorship to GSIs. Recipients of this award are asked to provide a statement of their GSI mentoring philosophy.".

Yesterday, Tuesday, May 21, 2019, was our annual Statistics Department commencement ceremony. This year the Statistics Department was back in Wheeler Auditorium and we had a packed house with family, friends, and 133 undergrads, 23 Master's, & 13 PhDs. More graduates than ever before! This year's commencement speaker was Amanda Cox, Data Editor of the New York Times.

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