Last Thursday, March 21st, 2019 was the 7th annual BSTARS. Every year this event gives our PhDs and Post-Docs the opportunity to present their research in a professional setting to the Statistics Department's Industry partners, faculty, and fellow students.
Kellie Ottoboni received the Innovation Award from the Election Verification Network (EVN) for her work with Professor Philip Stark developing the Stratified Union-Intersection Tests of Elections (SUITE) tool for use in the pilot of risk-limiting audits. The SUITE tool is a Jupyter notebook that encompasses all steps of a post-election risk-limiting audit: risk calculations, an estimate of the number of ballots to examine, and a procedure to sample and locate ballots.
The UCB Statistics Department is looking forward to having Amanda Cox, Data Editor for the New York Times, as this year's commencement speaker. We invite you to learn more about her by reading this article she's featured in from the NY Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/reader-center/data-visualization-edi…
Shirshendu Ganguly has been named a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, "a philanthropic, New York-based grant-making institution established in 1934 by former General Motors president and CEO Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr."
We are thrilled to share that this fall we have the first graduates from our new Data Science major. In total nine undergradaute students make up the first class to gradaute from the major which was official opened earlier this semester. The Data Science major was created by Statistics and Computer Science department and offers undergradaute students an opportunity to study data from myriad angles.
A new portrait of Professor Blackwell adorns the wall of UC Berkeley newest residence Hall. Check out the full article here, https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/12/07/portrait-honoring-david-blackwell-…
Statistics community check out this interesting article on Google's new 'super-human' game playing AI. Professor Yu was interviewed for this article. Be sure to read the full article and keep an eye-open for her comments.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/google-alphazero-artificial-intel…
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
NOTE: The applications for the Assistant Professor position must be received by November 23, 2018. For the tenured position (Associate and Full Professor), applications must be received by December 28, 2018.
Risk-limiting audits are endorsed by the American Statistical Association, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, the League of Women Voters, Verified Voting, and other election integrity groups. Colorado was the first state to require risk-limiting audits, which are also in law in California and Rhode Island, and have been tested in Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and Denmark. Prof. Stark serves on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Capstone Lecturer: Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
The Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach the capstone course in the Berkeley Statistics Masters Program should an opening arise. This position is 33% time. Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from semester to semester, depending upon the needs of the Department.
September 11, 2018, was the dedication of UC Berkeley's newest residence hall named after renown UC Berkeley Statistics Professor David Harold Blackwell. The ceremony took place in front of the new residence hall, which is now filled with first year students who moved in August 14th, 2018. The ceremony was attended by members of the Blackwell family, faculty and staff of the Statistics Department, members of the UC Berkeley administration, and staff from the residence hall community.
David Blackwell Hall, the first new residence hall to open at UC Berkeley since 2012, is a living space for more than 700 students full of patios, study rooms, bike racks, ping-pong tables, exercise machines and — if you’re lucky enough to live on the west side of the building — million-dollar views of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco skyline.
The Statistics department is pleased to announce that Professor Deborah Nolan, current Department Chair, has been selected by the American Statistical Associate as this year's recipient of the Waller Award for Distinguished Teaching Career. Professor Nolan is well deserving of this prestigious award for her many contributions to the teaching in Statistics Department and at UC Berkeley.
We are delighted to share that Statistics Professor Bin Yu has been chosen by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, COPSS, as the recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth L. Scott Award. Professor Yu is being acknowledged for her dedicated and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the statistics field and for her mentorship of women students.
Laura Slakey, the MSO of the Statistics Department, was selected once again to receive an Excellence in Management award from the Berkeley Staff Assembly committee for 2018. Congratulations Laura!
This year's commencement was a wonderful celebration for all those who participated, whether it was students, parents, faculty or staff. We had more students participate than even before in our graduation ceremony which took place at Zellerbach Playhouse on Monday, May 14th, 2018.