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

Statistics, Data Science and MCS Diploma Ceremony 2023

Sunday, June 18th, 2023 Statistics and Data Science graduates and their families and friends are cordially invited to the department's Diploma Ceremony in Sequoia Hall Grove immediately following the Universi

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.

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Upcoming Seminars & Events

April

Statistics Seminar

Hypothesis testing in multiparameter exponential families

4:30pm

Sloan 380C

Michael Perlman, University of Washington

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April

Statistics Seminar

A non-asymptotic framework for approximate message passing

4:30pm

TBD

Yuting Wei, Wharton/U Penn

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April

Statistics Seminar

Title to come

4:30pm

Sloan 380C

Davide Viviano, Stanford GSB

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April

Statistics Seminar

Title to come

4:30pm

Sloan 380C

Victor Panaretos, EPFL

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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

Keynote Video

Neural Information Processing Systems Conference keynote address by Emmanuel Candès

The recording of his 2022 Breiman Lecture on Conformal Prediction along with the slide deck are available for viewing at the NeurIPS site.

WiDS Stanford

WiDS @Lane Medical Library Virtual Conference set for April 26th

Lane Medical Library will be hosting a half-day virtual conference in partnership with Women in Data Science. This year the theme is Connecting Health and the Environment through Data. Everyone is invited to attend all WiDS conference and WiDS Datathon Workshop events, which feature outstanding women doing outstanding work.