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The University of British Columbia, Vancouver invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Teaching position in the Department of Statistics, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. The salary range for this position is $120K - $135K, commensurate with qualifications and experience. 

This position provides the opportunity, with strong institutional support, to pursue a career based on excellence in teaching and educational leadership, while...

Applications for the 2025 academic year are now open. 

Deadline for applications is midnight Sunday March 23d

The Department of Statistics is hiring several TA and marker positions for 2025.

Positions may be available for:

DSCI 100 – Introduction to Data Science

DSCI 310 -  Reproducible and Trustworthy Workflows for Data Science

Stat 200 – Elementary Statistics for Applications

Stat 201 - Statistical Inference for Data Science...

Research Highlight

Since 2009, more than 60 researchers have been a part of this group, studying the properties of wood products, working on projects such as the development of engineering standards, monitoring for changes in product properties over time, subset selection methods for species grouping in the marketing of lumber and the duration of load effect in construction. The group is made up of  statisticians from UBC and SFU - faculty, students and staff - and collaborating scientists at FPInnovations Vancouver, funded by Collaborative Research and Development Grants awards under NSERC’s Forest Sector R & D Initiative. 

Forest products have a complex variability and, as a biomaterial, are inherently stochastic. Therefore, the group has analyzed forest product data using advanced statistical  methods in areas such as survey sampling, survival analysis, nonparametric Bayesian analysis and the handling of big data.  The group has made novel contributions to statistical science that transfer to other domains and has solved long standing problems in wood science.  And something that rarely is the case - statisticians have run their own experiments and data collection. 

Read more about the Forest Products Stochastic Modeling Group.

Events

Mar 21 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Xinglong Li, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
ESB 4192 / Zoom
Apr 4 2025 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
van Eeden Invited Speaker: Dr. Arnaud Doucet, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Online or ESB 5104/5106 at the University of British Columbia

News

We are pleased to announce that this year’s recipients of the Anona Thorne and Takao Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship are Master's students Zachary Lau (on the left in the photo)  and Junsong Tang (on the right in the photo).

The Department of Statistics is soliciting nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science, an award to recognize the importance of developing and applying tools to answer important questions through the analysis of data....

Jiaping (Olivia) Liu, a senior PhD student in our graduate program, has been awarded the prestigious BC Graduate Scholarship (BCGS) for her outstanding contributions to the field of computational statistics and computational biology.

The Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia is pleased to offer "Data Science Essentials: Statistics, Tools, and Techniques" as part of the ...

The Department of Statistics of the University of British Columbia is pleased to announce a new admission stream.

Effective now, we offer a PhD Track stream for strong undergraduate students expecting to graduate in Spring 2025 interested...