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 ...

Columbia University will be holding a symposium to honor Mark Brown. The symposium takes place at Columbia University on March 1st, 2019. With deep affection and appreciation we honor our colleague Mark Brown on the occasion of his 75th birthday. ...

For most of his career, Simon Tavaré has worked at the intersection of the mathematical and biomedical sciences. A pioneering statistician and internationally recognized cancer researcher, Tavaré was appointed by President Lee C. Bollinger in July as director of the ...

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/....