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Sessional Lecturer Positions with Department of Statistics, UBC

The Department of Statistics at UBC is a growing academic unit within the Faculty of Science with activities in research, education, and consulting. To meet the increasing demand for statistics and data science training at the undergraduate level, we are seeking a sessional lecturer for 2025 Winter Term 2 to teach STAT 310: Reproducible and Trustworthy Workflows for Data Science. The appointment may be renewed subject to the department's needs, funding availability, and demonstration of excellence in teaching. The terms and conditions of the lecturer appointment are in...

Faculty position in Education Leadership in the Department of Statistics

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...

Teaching Assistants - Graduate and Undergraduate

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...

Data Science

Data Science information page.

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Events

Apr 2 2025 - 9:00am to 10:15am

Poster Session for STAT 450

STAT 450 Students

ESB Atrium - East Corridor (PME Gallery)

Apr 4 2025 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

van Eeden seminar: From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - When Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport

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

Apr 7 2025 - 10:00am to 11:00am

Statistical models that are known or suspected to be partially identified: Issues of parameterization, computation, and software development

Seren Lee, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student

ESB 4192 / Zoom

Apr 8 2025 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Statistics for Satellite Conjunctions

Anthony Davison, Professor of Statistics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

ESB 4192 / Zoom

Events Calendar

Job Postings

Sessional Lecturer Positions with Department of Statistics, UBC

Faculty position in Education Leadership in the Department of Statistics

Teaching Assistants - Graduate and Undergraduate

Research Highlight

Data Science

Events

Poster Session for STAT 450

van Eeden seminar: From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - When Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport

Statistical models that are known or suspected to be partially identified: Issues of parameterization, computation, and software development

Statistics for Satellite Conjunctions

News

Linguistics Ph.D. student Farhan Samir wins 2024-25 Data Science Award

Professor Daniel J. McDonald’s Talk in the CANSSI Prairies Workshop Series in Data Science

Professor Natalia Nolde named CRC Tier I in Statistics of Extremes and Risk

Thorne–Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship Recipients (2024): Zachary Lau & Junsong Tang

Call for nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science for Academic Year 2024-25