Han Liu, Associate Professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will join the faculty on September 1, 2018. He uses computation and data as a lens to explore science and intelligence.
Arend Kuyper, Assistant Professor of Instruction, joined the faculty in September 2017, focusing on the development and application of statistical methods in education and the Department's Data Science initiatives.
Elizabeth Tipton will join the Faculty as Associate Professor of Statistics and Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) on September 1, 2018. Tipton's research focuses on the development of statistical methods and tools for making ‘causal generalizations’.
From left to right: Yi Gao, Xiaofei Hu, Zach Seeskin, Wendy Chan, Qingyang Zhang
Statistics Chairman Larry Hedges was appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Education Science Board. The Board helps establish policy and priorities for the research arm of the US Department of Education. Read more about the Board at: https://ies.ed.gov/director/board/
Beth Tipton (PhD 2011), Assistant Professor at Columbia University, was awarded the American Educational Research Association’s Early Career Award for Quantitative Research in Education for 2016.
Yuan Liao (PhD 2010) will be appointed as Associate Professor of Economics at Rutgers University this fall.
Statistics professors Bruce Spencer and Ajit Tamhane were elected as Fellows of the International Statistical Institute.
Wendy Chan (PhD 2016) has accepted a position as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Postdoc Nathan VanHoudnos received the award for the outstanding doctoral dissertation among all predoctoral training fellows supported by the US Institute of Education Science.
Jiangtao Gou has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Hunter College of CUNY.
Qingayng Zhang has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at University of Arkansas.
Professor Donald B. Rubin receives an honorary degree from Northwestern on June 16, 2017 at Northwestern University’s 159th commencement ceremony. Read more about it here
Ph.D. alumni gathered together with faculty members Larry Hedges, Ji-Ping Wang, Hongmei Jiang, and Beth Andrews for dinner after the JSM conference on August 1.
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Professor Larry Hedges was recently elected "Statistician of the Year" by the Chicago chapter of the American Statistical Association for 2013–14.
