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 ...

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) ...

The international workshop on “Statistical Challenges in High-dimensional and Complex Data” will be held at Columbia University on Sep 14 and Sep 15, 2018. The workshop will cover a wide range of topics including high-dimensional regression, topic modeling, social network, ...

Congratulations to Professor Jingchen Liu, winner of the 2018 Psychometric Society Early Career Award. The Psychometric Society Early Career Award recognizes scholars at the early stage of their career whose research has the potential to make a major contribution ...