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The Department of Statistics is consistently recognized as one of the top statistics programs in the country. We work to advance the frontiers of statistical sciences and data science both in theory and application. New directions in statistics are often interdisciplinary and encompass bioinformatics and genomics, computational finance, data science, differential privacy, and machine learning. The National Research Council recognizes our faculty as one of the nation's strongest. Our faculty and graduates are leaders in academia and industry who bring the strengths of the statistical sciences to the world’s toughest challenges.

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New Faculty Members Join Biological Sciences and Statistics

08-27-2024

The Departments of Biological Sciences and Statistics are pleased to welcome two outstanding new faculty members for the 2024-25 academic year.


Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy

04-24-2024

Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars and customized advertisements. Research has shown, however, that these systems memorize aspects of the data they were trained with in order to learn patterns, which raises concerns for privacy.


Xiao Wang Named Department Head

04-16-2024

Xiao Wang Named Statistics Department Head


Actuarial Science program honored by the Casualty Actuarial Society

03-13-2024

Actuarial Science (CAS) Silver Award


Partnership with Math Motivators

12-01-2023

Statistics students will tutor high school mathematics students


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