Department of Statistics

Columbia University

Faculty Position Starting Fall 2019

The Department of Statistics invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin July 1, 2019. A Ph.D. in statistics or a related field is required. Candidates will be ...

The proliferation of master’s and doctoral programs in data science and analytics continues, seemingly due to the insatiable demand of employers for data scientists. Amstat News started reaching out two years ago to those in the statistical community who are ...

David Blei was named co-editor-in-chief at the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR). Established in 2000, JMLR has become the premiere journal in the field of machine learning. It is open-access, self-published, and is entirely run by volunteers in ...

Professor Ming Yuan will serve as a co-Editor of The Annals of Statistics for the three-year term from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2021. The journal homepage is at http://www.imstat.org/aos/....

When he was a graduate student in statistics at Columbia, Swupnil Sahai considered doing his doctoral dissertation on the statistics of tennis. As an avid tennis player, he wanted to create an easy-to-use app that amateur players could use to ...

This prize recognizes the best PhD thesis in probability or statistics defended at a Canadian university in a given year.

Victor Veitch is the winner of the Pierre Robillard Award of the Statistical Society of Canada. Victor’s thesis, entitled “(Sparse) ...