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With an appointment that starts on September 1st, Emily comes to Stanford from the University of Washington where she has held the post of Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and Department of Statistics.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of their prestigious Sloan Fellowships for the new year and Tengyu has been selected for this very special recognition.
Andrea Montanari has been named the Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor in the School of Engineering, and the Department of Statistics joins in congratulating him on this well-deserved honor. The Kleist Professorship was endowed in 1997 to honor a faculty member teaching and conducting research in information systems technology.
The 2020 Infosys Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Sourav for his ground-breaking work in probability and statistical physics.
The IEEE Board of Directors has selected Professor Candès along with his colleagues Terence Tao at UCLA and Justin Romberg at the Georgia Institute of Technology as co-recipients of this award in recognition of outstanding achievements in signal processing.
The new year will see a welcome new appointment in the department. Tselil has spent 2020 in various locations and pursuits, most recently as Microsoft Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing with their Probability, Geometry and Computation in High Dimensions program.
Vishesh Jain will join our department in mid-December, direct from the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing where he is currently a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellow for the program on Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions.
Fortune's list of 40 emerging leaders is revamped for 2020 to highlight influential people in five separate categories: finance, technology, healthcare, government and politics, and media and entertainment.
The Statistics Department welcomes Paromita Dubey to our newest Stein Fellow appointment beginning September 1st. Paromita just completed her posting as Postdoctoral Scholar with the Department of Statistics at UC Davis, where she also received her PhD in June 2019.
The Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the American Statistical Association has selected Trevor for their award named in honor of Professor Leo Breiman. Breiman's work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning.
Professor Candès is among four laureates chosen to receive Spain's Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
To all of our graduates of Statistics Masters, Data Science Masters and Statistics Doctoral degree programs, a message from the Chair:
The School of Humanities and Sciences has produced a three-part series highlighting Statistics faculty working on COVID-related research.
SSC Annual Meeting Canceled
Professor Owen is the 2020 recipient of the Noether Senior Scholar Award from the American Statistical Association. This honor is given each year to a distinguished senior researcher or teacher in nonparametric statistics.
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics Committee on Fellows has selected their cohort of new Fellows, and we have learned that Professor Montanari will be on the list of honorees. Traditionally, the Fellows would be presented at the Presidential Address and awards session during the Joint Statistical Meetings.
The Statistics Department was extremely saddened by the news that our PhD student Xiaowei Wang passed away before dawn on Wednesday, March 11th. In the fourth year of the doctoral program, he had spent the past few years in treatment for cancer yet made an impression on us all by being always cheerful and positive.
John has been selected to receive the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Early Career Prize for 2020, the first award of this new prize. Congratulations!
Jacqueline's unprecedented career of more than forty years has been recognized by the Psychometric Society with their Career Award for Lifetime Achievement.
For the third year in a row, Stanford's Applied Cyber team placed first at the Collegiate Penetrating Testing Competition at the Rochester Institute of Technology, beating out nine college hacking teams from around the world.
A short film about our department was commissioned over the summer in connection with the 2019 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics that was held in Valencia, Spain.
The Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Bologna has announced that Trevor has been awarded the Sigillum Magnum, the highest award given by the university. U Bologna was founded in 1088 and is the oldest academic institution in Europe.
Dominik will begin his appointment on September 1, 2019, coming to Sequoia Hall from a postdoctoral stint with the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD in Mathematics from ETH Zurich where he was awarded the ETH medal for outstanding doctoral thesis.
Celebrating their 80th anniversary this year, the Faculty of Science at Hong Kong University have named 18 individuals to be honored as Distinguished Alumni for 2019, encompassing criteria that include notable achievements in science education, research, business or professional fields, service to HKU, and contributions to society and the
Nicholas Cook joins the Statistics Department as a Stein Fellow for a one-year appointment. Nick has spent three years at Stanford with the Math Department on a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) embodies the high priority placed by the federal government on maintaining the leadership position of the United States in science by producing outstanding scientists and engineers and nurturing their continued developmen
On July 1, 2019, the latest arrival to Sequoia Hall will be Guillaume Basse, Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and Department of Statistics.
The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program highlights academic scientists and engineers affiliated with US institutions of higher education which award degrees in science, engineering or mathematics. Recipients of this distinction have shown exceptional promise for doing creative research in an early stage of their careers, and the
With great appreciation for all those involved in the nomination and review process, we proudly announce this year’s doctoral dissertation award winners.
In her article for the June issue of Significance magazine, Amanda L. Golbeck reflects on her collaborator and friend, and his career-long role as a "mover and shaker" for women in statistics.