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Professor Lang Wu appointed as Associate Director representing Alberta/BC/Yukon

Congratulations to our Professor Lang Wu on his role as the Associate Director representing Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI). As an Associate Director, Lang will provide feedback on all aspects of CANSSI operations, help steer CANSSI developments, and adjudicate the smaller budget programs as well as the CANSSI...

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December 14, 2022

Call for nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science for Academic Year 2022-23

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.

This $1,000 award is offered to an undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated initiative and creativity in making outstanding contributions in the field of Data Science. The award is made on the recommendation of the Department of...

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December 13, 2022

Free Statistical Consultation: 2022/23

The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 450/550, SOS and STAT 551 as follows:

  • STAT 450/550: Term 2 only, open to anyone, via students in STAT 450 mentored by faculty; accepting projects for term 2 2022-23 from now until Dec 15
  • SOS (Statistical Opportunity for Students): year-round, UBC-V graduate students only, via a team of a senior Statistical consultant and a Statistics graduate...
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November 3, 2022

Professor Jiahua Chen elected as fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada

UBC Statistics Professor Jiahua Chen has been named a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Canada’s highest academic honour. Founded in 1882, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) comprises the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences, and The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. It recognizes excellence, advises the government and the larger society, and promotes a culture of knowledge and innovation in Canada and...

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September 13, 2022

Professor Daniel J. McDonald’s talk in the Data Science Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) series

Data Science Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) collaborated between the Department of Statistical Sciences at University of Toronto and CANSSI Ontario is a new speaker series that showcases opportunities in all realms of society for Data Science. And our faculty member Daniel J. McDonald is one of the speakers in the series!

To join...

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September 12, 2022

Welcoming our three new faculty members

UBC Statistics announces the appointment of three new tenured/tenure track faculty – Lucy Gao, Joel Östblom, and Geoff Pleiss.

Lucy began an Assistant Professor position with us on July 1, 2022.

Joel joined us on August 23, 2022 in an Assistant Professor of Teaching position with a primary focus on the Master of Data Science (MDS) program.

And Geoff will begin his role as an Assistant Professor in the...

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August 30, 2022

Recipients of the 2022 Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarship

This year’s recipients of the Dr. John and Barbara Petkau Scholarships are Chenyue Qian and Yujie Chen.

Chenyue Qian is a Statistics major with stellar grades in all courses and the recipient of the Faculty of Science International Student Scholarship and the Trek Excellence Scholarship for Continuing Students. In the summer of 2021, he was an intern at the Bank of Ningbo, which helped him...

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August 26, 2022

Free Statistical Consultation: 2022/23

The Statistics Department offers several types of free statistical consultation, via STAT 551, SOS and STAT 450/550, as follows:

  • STAT 551: Term 1 only, open to anyone, via students in STAT 551 mentored by faculty; accepting projects for term 1 2022-23 from now until Oct 31
  • SOS (Statistical Opportunity for Students): year-round, UBC-V graduate students only, via a team of a senior Statistical consultant and a Statistics graduate student...
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August 16, 2022

PhD Student Evan Sidrow receives the 2021 Rick White Award

Congratulation to Evan Sidrow, the recipient of the Rick White Award for the UBC academic year 2021.

Evan has made important contributions to the applied fields of ecology, developing new methods to analyze high frequency biologging data, with a focus on killer whale kinematic data. This work has helped scientists to identify crucial behaviours such as foraging and to understand the differences in health of the Southern and Northern Resident Killer Whales. He is now developing...

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June 6, 2022

Ruijie (Richard) Hou receives Nash Medal

The Nash Medal in Statistics was awarded this academic year to Ruijie (Richard) Hou, who graduates with a combined honours degree in Statistics and Computer Science. Richard has taken many challenging courses, all with very high grades. He has also expanded his skill set by taking the project-based capstone STAT 450 and by working as a co-op student. His co-op work involved application of deep learning in computer vision....

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May 25, 2022

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