Congratulations to 2024 GTA Award Winners, Kenny Chiu and Naitong Chen!
Statistics PhD candidates Kenny Chiu and Naitong Chen were honoured with the Statistics Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards for 2024. Kenny and Naitong have been recognized for their exceptional contributions to teaching.
Kenny Chiu awarded Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Statistics PhD candidate Kenny Chiu has been awarded the prestigious Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2024/2025.
Xiaoting Li Wins 2024-25 Marshall Prize for Excellence in Statistics
Congratulations to Xiaoting Li, the winner of the 2024-25 Marshall Prize!
Linguistics Ph.D. student Farhan Samir wins 2024-25 Data Science Award
Congratulations, to the 2024 awardee, Farhan Samir! Farhan is in his fourth year of a Ph.D. in computational linguistics. He holds an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship and an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship for his future postdoc studies. His advisor is Professor Jian Zhu.
Professor Daniel J. McDonald’s Talk in the CANSSI Prairies Workshop Series in Data Science
The CANSSI Prairies Regional Centre organized the CANSSI Prairies Workshop Series in Data Science in 2023, offering an excellent opportunity for individuals to enhance their knowledge and skills in various areas of data science through engaging, interactive workshops, while exploring new topics, learning cutting-edge techniques, and connecting with experts in the field. And our faculty member Daniel J. McDonald is one of the speakers in the series!
Professor Natalia Nolde named CRC Tier I in Statistics of Extremes and Risk
We were very happy to read the Government of Canada’s recent announcement of new and renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRCs), especially because one of our professors, Natalia Nolde, is on the list of new CRC recipients. Natalia has now been named as a CRC Tier I in Statistics of Extremes and Risk.
Thorne–Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship Recipients (2024): Zachary Lau & Junsong Tang
We are pleased to announce that this year’s recipients of the Anona Thorne and Takao Tanabe Graduate Entrance Scholarship are Master's students Zachary Lau (on the left in the photo) and Junsong Tang (on the right in the photo).
Call for nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science for Academic Year 2024-25
The Department of Statistics is soliciting nominations for the Department of Statistics Award in Data Science, an award to recognize the importance of developing and applying tools to answer important questions through the analysis of data.
Statistics PhD student Olivia Liu won the BC Graduate Scholarship (BCGS)
Jiaping (Olivia) Liu, a senior PhD student in our graduate program, has been awarded the prestigious BC Graduate Scholarship (BCGS) for her outstanding contributions to the field of computational statistics and computational biology.
2025 UBC Vancouver Summer Program: Data Science Essentials
The Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia is pleased to offer "Data Science Essentials: Statistics, Tools, and Techniques" as part of the UBC Vancouver Summer Program.