Department of Statistics

Sequoia Hall front entrance seen from Math Corner

Statistics is a uniquely fascinating discipline, poised at the triple conjunction of mathematics, science, and philosophy.

As the first and most fully developed information science, it has grown steadily in influence for 100 years, combined now with 21st century computing technologies. What do statisticians do? Everything

News & Announcements

Dennis Sun appointed new Associate Professor (Teaching)

Dennis returns to Stanford in January to become Associate Professor (Teaching) of Statistics. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 2015 under the advising of Jonathan Taylor, he most recently has been Associate Professor of Statistics and Affiliate Professor of Computer Science at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a Senior Data Scientist at Google.

Appointments

New Stein Fellows for 2022

Two more Fellows will join the Statistics Department in September: Alden Green and Shuangping Li.

2022 Department Dissertation Awards

The Statistics Department is honored to announce a full lineup of doctoral dissertation awards this year. Each hard-won distinction is accompanied by a prize of $1,000 and recipients will be presented with their certificates during our diploma ceremony on June 12th.

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Upcoming Seminars & Events

January

Probability Seminar

Voting models and semilinear parabolic equations

4:00pm

Sequoia 200

Lenya Ryzhik, Stanford Math

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January

Statistics Seminar

Nonlinear embedding methods in modern dimension reduction: Theory and practice

4:30pm

Sloan 380C

Rong Ma, Stanford Statistics

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February

Statistics Seminar

Towards responsible machine learning in societal systems

4:30pm

300-300

Lydia Liu, Cornell University

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February

Probability Seminar

Cointegration, S&P, and random matrices

4:00pm

Sequoia 200

Vadim Gorin, UC Berkeley

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Industrial Affiliates

Our IA Program develops practical relationships between the department and the industrial community by creating opportunities for scientists, engineers, and developers from high-profile businesses to meet with our graduate students and share research topics in an informal setting. The annual conference for members, faculty, and final-year PhD candidates is a highlight event in our academic year.

Program Details

New Faculty Search

Assistant Professor, Stanford Data Science and the Department of Statistics

Search committee begins application review: November 15, 2022
Consideration guaranteed for applications received by: December 15, 2022

WiDS Stanford

Registration is open for the 2023 Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference, to be held in person on March 8th. Outstanding women will discuss their exceptional work in data science and related fields across a wide variety of research domains.

Discounts are available for students, postdocs, faculty and academic staff.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend this unique conference, connecting with attendees from industry, academia, government and non-profits.