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Congratulations to 2024 GTA Award Winners, Kenny Chiu and Naitong Chen!

Statistics PhD candidates Kenny Chiu and Naitong Chen were honoured with the Statistics Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards for 2024. Kenny and Naitong have been recognized for their exceptional contributions to teaching.

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April 14, 2025

Kenny Chiu awarded Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Statistics PhD candidate Kenny Chiu has been awarded the prestigious Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2024/2025.

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April 4, 2025

Xiaoting Li Wins 2024-25 Marshall Prize for Excellence in Statistics

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

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April 2, 2025

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

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 advisor is Professor Jian Zhu.

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April 1, 2025

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

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 knowledge and skills in various areas of data science through engaging, interactive workshops, while exploring new topics, learning cutting-edge techniques, and connecting with experts in the field. And our faculty member...

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March 20, 2025

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

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, is on the list of new CRC recipients. Natalia has now been named as a CRC Tier I in Statistics of Extremes and Risk.

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March 18, 2025

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

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).

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February 27, 2025

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

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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February 21, 2025

Statistics PhD student Olivia Liu won the BC Graduate Scholarship (BCGS)

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.

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January 9, 2025

2025 UBC Vancouver Summer Program: Data Science Essentials

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 UBC Vancouver Summer Program.

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December 17, 2024

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