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Hotelling Lectures

Amir Dembo will deliver the Hotelling Lectures, an annual event in the Department...
SAIL

The department is excited about the launch of the UNC Sports Analysis Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)...
News
INFORMS award

Alumnus Minghui Liu was part of the winning team for the 2023 INFORMS Franz Edelman award...
Alzheimer's discovery

Prof. Zhang uncovered how Alzheimer's can accelerate atrophy in subcortical brain regions in individuals aged 60-75...
New IMS Fellow

Professor Kai Zhang has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
NSF fellowship

Our student Michael Nizenson was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship...
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.
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