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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 closed. 

Deadline for applications was 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

Statistical procedures are called robust if they remain informative and efficient in the presence of outliers and other departures from typical model assumptions on the data.    Ignoring unusual observations can play havoc with standard statistical methods and can also result in losing the valuable information gotten from unusual data points.  Robust procedures prevent this.  And these procedures are more important than ever since currently, data are often collected without following established experimental protocols.  As a result, data may not represent a single well-defined population.  Analyzing these data by non-robust methods may result in biased conclusions.  To perform reliable and informative inference based on such a heterogeneous data set, we need statistical methods that can fit models and identify patterns, focusing on the dominant homogeneous subset of the data without being affected by structurally different small subgroups.  Robust Statistics does exactly this.  Some examples of applications are finding exceptional athletes (e.g. hockey players), detecting intrusion in computer networks and constructing reliable single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping.

Events

Apr 22 2025 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Xiaoting Li, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
ESB 4192 / Zoom
Apr 22 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Kenny Chiu, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
ESB 4192 / Zoom
Apr 25 2025 - 6:30am to 3:00pm
Daniel J. McDonald, Associate Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Hybrid (in person and on Zoom); University of Manitoba, Fort Gary Campus, Armes Building, Room 200
Jul 7 2025 - 10:00am to 3:00pm
UBC Vancouver Campus

News

Statistics PhD candidates Kenny Chiu and Naitong Chen were honoured with the...

Statistics PhD candidate Kenny Chiu has been awarded the prestigious...

Congratulations to Xiaoting Li, the winner of the 2024-25 Marshall Prize!

Congratulations, to the 2024 awardee, Farhan Samir! Farhan is in his fourth year of a Ph.D. in computational linguistics. He holds an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship and an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship for his future postdoc studies. His...

The CANSSI Prairies Regional Centre organized the CANSSI Prairies Workshop Series in Data Science in 2023, offering an excellent opportunity for individuals to enhance their...

We were very happy to read the Government of Canada’s recent announcement of new and renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRCs), especially because one of our professors, Natalia Nolde,...