News and Announcements

 

Date News
January 2013 Congratulations to PhD student Xinxin Shu, Student Paper Competition Winner for the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics. Xinxin was advised by Professor Annie Qu.
January 2013 Congratulations to PhD student Nathaniel Helwig, Student Paper Competition Winner for the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics. Nathaniel was advised by Professor Ping Ma.
January 2013 Congratulations to PhD student Subhadeep Paul, Student Paper Competition Winner for the International Indian Statistical Association. Subhadeep was advised by Professor Feng Liang.
August 2012 Xianyang Zhang wins ASA Section on Nonparametric Statistics Student Presentation Award. Xianyang was advised by Xiaofeng Shao.
May 2012 Chistopher Kinson one of 33 UIUC students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
March 2012 Ping Ma selected for 2011 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award.
February 2012 PhD Alum Huixia (Judy) Wang selected for 2011 Tweedie New Researcher Award.
February 2012 Sheng Zhong selected for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.
January 2012 Congratulations to PhD student Jingfei Zhang, Student Paper Competition Winner for the ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics. Jingfei is advised by Professor Yuguo Chen.
January 2012 Welcome new faculty member Steven Culpepper, Assistant Professor of Statistics.
September 2011 PhD Alum and long-time faculty member Xuming He appointed H.C. Carver Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan.
August 2011 PhD Alum and Statistics Affiliate Hua-Hua Chang elected President of the Psychometric Society for 2012-2013.
August 2011 UIUC PhD Student Peng Wang, advised by Annie Qu, receives Laha Travel Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting.
August 2011 UIUC PhD Student Yunwen Yang, advised by Xuming He, receives Laha Travel Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics to present a paper at the IMS Annual Meeting.
May 2011 PhD Alum Min-ge Xie elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
April 2011 UIUC PhD Student Xianyang Zhang, advised by Xiaofeng Shao, wins Best Student Poster Award at the 2011 IISA Conference on Probability, Statistics and Data Analysis.
February 2011 PhD Alum Ying Wei receives the 2011 Noether Young Scholar Award for outstanding early career contributions to Nonparametric Statistics
January 2011 Ping Ma receives NSF CAREER Award: "Subsampling methods in Statistical Modeling of Ultra-Large Sample Geophysics"
August 2010 Xuming He is named Theory and Methods Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association
August 2010 Xuming He is Program Chair for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings
May 2010 Annie Qu elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
May 2010 Adam Martinsek elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
March 2010 Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Statistics! The 2010 UIUC Statistics Sympoisum was held March 29-30, 2010.
March 2010 Roger Koenker awarded the 2010 Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation
February 2010 From The Economist: "Data, data everywhere"
November 2009 Ping Ma featured in Purdue University Alumni Profile
August 2009 From The New York Times: "For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics"
August 2009 Ya-Hui Hsu receives 2009 JSM Student Paper Award from the Section on Nonparametric Statistics
August 2009 Jeffrey Douglas promoted to Full Professor
April 2009 William Stout received the 2009 Purdue College of Science Distinguished Alumni Award
December 2008 Xuming He elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
October 2008 UIUC hosts "Second Annual Midwest Symposium on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics". Speakers include Terry Speed, Peter Bickel, John Storey and Chung-I Wu.
August 2008 Yuguo Chen promoted to Associate Professor
August 2008 Annie Qu joins the Department of Statistics as Associate Professor
August 2008 Roger Koenker elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
August 2008 Roger Koenker elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
May 2008 Congratulations 2007-2008 Graduates!
April 2008 PhD candidate Guixian Lin selected as a SAS Statistical Summer Fellow for 2008.
March 2008 Ping Ma selected as a Beckman Fellow in the Center for Advanced Study for 2008-2009.
August 2007 Wenxuan Zhong joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor
August 2007 Xuming He delivers Medallion Lecture at the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings
May 2007 Congratulations 2006-2007 Graduates!
May 2007 Ping Ma's research featured in Science Daily, PhysOrg.Com and United Press International
August 2006 Xiaofeng Shao joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor
July 2006 Feng Liang joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor
July 2006 In Memoriam Walter Philipp passed away July 19, 2006 while hiking in the Alps.
January 2006 Alexey Stepanov joins the Department of Statistics as Lecturer
August 2005 Ping Ma joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor
August 2005 Yuguo Chen joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor
August 2005 Xuming He is elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Spring 2005 Ellen Fireman receives the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate teaching
Spring 2005 Ellen Fireman receives the LAS Lynn Martin Award for Distinguished Women Teachers
February 5, 2005 In Memoriam Robert A. Wijsman, August 20, 1920 - February 5, 2005
2005 - 2007 Stephen Portnoy is Co-Editor Elect of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Theory & Methods
Fall 2004 Y. Michelle Wang joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor
2003 - 2005 Xuming He is Program Director for Statistics at the National Science Foundation
Fall 2003 Sarah Hartz wins national outstanding Ph.D. thesis award from the Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation Division of the American Psychology Association
Fall 2002 Hernando Ombao joins the Department of Statistics as Assistant Professor
July 2002 Xuming He named as Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Spring 2002 John Marden wins the Campus Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction
Usha Dhar wins LAS Staff Award
Fall 2001 Jeff Douglas joins Department of Statistics as Associate Professor
Spring 2001 Adam Martinsek wins LAS and Campus Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
2001 - 2003 John Marden is Co-Editor of the Annals of Statistics
2001 Bill Stout is President-Elect of the Psychometric Society
2001 Stan Wasserman is President-Elect of the Classification Society of North America
August 2000 Doug Simpson is named as Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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