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The Statistics Department welcomes two new Stein Fellows for the start of the 2017-18 academic year: Yumeng Zhang and Xiang Zhu.
The Wald Memorial Lectures are among the IMS Named Lectures invited each year by the Committee on Special Lectures, and are given in honor of Professor Abraham Wald. Emmanuel presented his talk, "What's Happening in Selective Inference?" on August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd during the Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore.
Peter Mohanty has been chosen as the Science Education Fellow in Statistics, effective August 1st. The Science Education Fellowship is designed to support faculty in implementing an effective transition of statistics courses to a modern active learning format and to improve undergraduate education in STEM fields through active learning.
Professor Candès was notified in late March of his selection for this year's Ralph E. Kleinman Prize and is set to receive this biannual honor during the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh this week.
Professor Donoho was the featured speaker at the recent Congressional Lunch Briefing held by the American Mathematical Society, their first in partnership with MSRI. Attendees were from sister scientific societies, local universities and fede
Mike's innovative approach to applying math to a real-world problem has impressed the selection committee for the Rosenkranz Prize for Health Care Research in Developing Countries, presented by the Stanford Health Policy center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
First notified of their selection in January, Professor Efron and Sir David Cox received their BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in a formal ceremony on June 15th. The event was att
The diploma ceremony for the Department of Statistics will include formal recognition of recipients of the dissertation and teaching assistant awards. A new honor was created this year with the renaming of the applied statistics thesis prize for our emeritus colleague, Jerry Friedman.
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology posted at their YouTube channel a short film clip featuring Professor Donoho in celebration of his Honorary Doctorate Conferment Ceremony on June 12, 2017.
On Thursday, June 22nd, just ahead of the Math+Stats+X Conference in celebration of Dave Donoho's 60th birthday, the Statistics Department will host author presentations of submissions for the 2017 Information and Inference Best Paper Prize.
One of Jane Stanford’s five "noble" buildings, Old Chemistry re-opened for Winter Quarter classes as the Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning, and today's Stanford Report highlights another addition to the landmark space: the Robin Li and Me
John was among seven Stanford faculty recognized this year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today.
Hosted by ICME, the second annual Women in Data Science Conference took place on February 3rd and again highlighted women doing amazing work in that field, in academia as well as industry. Susan Holmes was among the speakers, with a technical presentation about the ways statistical analysis can bias large data sets.
Together with David Cox of the University of Oxford, Brad Efron has been honored as a Laureate in the 2016 edition of these awards, "for revolutionizing statistics." The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards seek to recognize and encourage w
Friends and colleagues shared their memories of Charles for this obituary in the Stanford Report.
The Department of Statistics is very sorry to share the sad news that our friend and colleague Charles Stein died in his sleep on the night of November 24th. After the loss of his wife Margaret in September, our hearts remain with his children and other family during this period of overwhelming loss.
The Q&A article in which Susan talks about the fields of statistics and data science also includes a video interview recorded at Stanford Medicine’s recent Big Data in Biomedicine Conference.
Consulting Professor of Statistics John Chambers announced today that Senior Research Scientist Narasimhan has been elected to membership by a majority vote of the general assembly of the R Foundation. John, also a Foundation member, explained:
In a late-morning extra release to their online edition, the Stanford Report issued this expanded obituary for Ted today.
We regret to announce today the loss of our esteemed colleague, Ted Anderson, emeritus professor of Statistics and of Economics. Ted was taken to Stanford Hospital last Wednesday after suffering heart issues; he passed away early Saturday morning, September 17th.
James Johndrow became the Department's newest Stein Fellow on September 1, 2016. James received his PhD in Statistical Science from Duke University in January of 2016. He is presently a statistical consultant with Human Rights Data Analysis Group in San Francisco as well as a data science consultant with Treasure Data, Inc.
Julia A. Palacios comes to Stanford from joint postdoctoral research at Harvard University and Brown University. She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington in 2013.
The diploma award ceremony for the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, held on Sunday, June 12, in Lomita Grove, saw the presentation of the annual dissertation and teaching assistant awards.
Andrea Montanari has been selected by the IEEE Information Theory Society to receive their 2016 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars.
Both daily newspapers, the Stanford Report and the student-run
It is with great sadness that we share the news that our colleague Ingram Olkin passed away peacefully in the late evening of April 28, 2016. Ingram was a most dignified person, who graced the lives of many with his sharp wit and intellect, his good spirits, his generosity and his kindness.
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After years of preparation, the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong (ASHK) was inaugurated on December 5th in a ceremony at the Government House. ASHK sets out to promote scientific research and education, to serve as a focal point for academic assembly and discussion, and to help realize Hong Kong’s aspiration as a center of scientific
Data Science @ Stanford recently featured Trevor Hastie as part of its ongoing Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
Three leading names in statistics are convening via the internet to take part in the next RSS Journal webinar, taking place October 21, 2015; the start time is set for 8am in California (PDT), 11am in New York (EDT), and 4pm in the UK (BST). The webinar will focus on Efron's paper, 'Frequentist accuracy of Bayes