Statistics & Operations Research
The Department of Statistics and Operations Research specializes in inference, decision-making, and data analysis involving complex models and systems exhibiting both deterministic and random behavior. We focus on developing and analyzing the necessary quantitative and computational tools to enable practitioners to solve problems in statistical and probabilistic analysis, modeling, optimization, and the evaluation of system performance.
Our research work is at the core of Data Science, Machine Learning/AI, Analytics, Network Science and related fields.
News
Newsletter
Welcome to the 2021 annual issue of STORies, which looks back at the department’s past academic year 2020/2021...
CLP Interim Director
Prof. Budhiraja was appointed an Interim Director of the Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) ...
Research
Optimization
Probability
Statistics
Stochastic Modeling
Teaching
The department runs highly popular Statistics and Analytics (STAN) major and minor, and partners for Data Science (DS) minor. Our offerings include “Foundations of Statistics and Data Science” (STOR 120), “Introduction to Data Science” (STOR 320), “Sports Analytics” (STOR 538) and many other highly sought undergraduate courses.
Our graduate MS and Ph.D. programs in Statistics and Operations Research provide challenging and comprehensive training across the full spectrum of STOR.
Outreach
The department runs the UNC Statistical / Data Science Consulting Center, which serves clients across campus and elsewhere. Under the supervision of faculty members, graduate students work with the clients to address their statistical & data science questions.
Separately, STOR graduate students run the Data Outreach Program for Students (Data OPS) aimed at educating local K-12 students in data science topics.
Upcoming Events
STOR Colloquium: Thomas Lee, University of California – Davis
STOR Colloquium: Lauren Davis, North Carolina A&T University
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 United States
Ph.D. Defense: Nhan Huu Pham
Chapel Hill, 27599 United States
STOR Colloquium: George Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 United States
Twitter Feed
We are lucky to have as our department manager!
Manager of @uncstor Shayna Hill, Massey Award winner, has tirelessly advocated for University staff during a dark and difficult period. Read more about the wonderful work Hill has done for Carolina: http://ow.ly/viK050G99IR
#TarHeelsTogether: @UNCstor will introduce a #datascience minor in Fall 2021 that is designed to appeal to students majoring in a broad array of disciplines. The minor is an important component of the soon-to-launch data science initiative at UNC. https://www.unc.edu/posts/2021/05/20/new-data-science-minor-to-launch-in-fall-2021/