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Two former PhD students from the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics are among the recipients of this year's Sloan Research Fellowships.

“Restoring Value to Minimum Variance,” by Lisa Goldberg, Ran Leshem, and Patrick Geddes, won a Special Distin

Professor Ben Recht won the 2015 William O.

Prof. Peter J.

Professor Deborah Nolan

David Blackwell was

We invite applications for tenure-track level (Assistant Professor) positions in the areas

Professor Terry Speed wins 

Prof. Terry Speed won the 2014 Jerome Sacks award from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS).

Just after 4pm on Wednesday August 6th, at the 2014 JSM in Boston, our colleague Martin Wainwright received the year’s COPSS Presidents’

"Michael Jordan, a leading UC Berkeley researcher in the fields of computer science and statistics,

Prof. Martin Wainwright has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

Former VIGRE Postdoc Emilia Huerta-Sanchez and her advisor, Rasmus Nielsen, have

Spring 2014 courses supported by the cloud

A conference "Combinatorial Stochastic Processes" in celebration of Jim Pitman's work was held at U.C. San Diego, June 20-21 2014.

The African American Faculty and Senior Staff Oral History Project

Lisa discusses the Monty Hall problem on Nu

Congratulations to Bin Yu on her election to the National Academy of Sciences!

Registration for the 2014 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 2014) is

Congratulations to Jonathan who was awarded the Citadel Studen