Banerjee awarded the IISA 2024 Early Career Award

December 8, 2024

Our STOR faculty, Professor Sayan Banerjee, was awarded the IISA 2024 Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Sciences (ECASDS)  in the “Statistics and Data Sciences: Theory”.

The Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Sciences (ECASDS) recognizes and felicitates IISA members who have made outstanding contributions in all topics covered under the broad umbrella of statistics and data sciences. Awards will be given in three tracks: “Statistics and Data Sciences: Theory”, “Statistics and Data Sciences: Applications” and “Statistics and Data Sciences: Interdisciplinary Studies and Practice”.

More about this award here.

University research week presentations

October 28, 2024

• Eva Loeser: Queuing Theory, Complex Systems and Operations Research
• Panagiotis Andreou: Opinion Dynamics on Networks with Communities
• Dawn Sanderson: Bayesian uncertainty quantification and reliability assessment for mars sample return
• Akshay Sakanaveeti: Central limit theorems in random graphs

Election article by alumni and faculty

October 20, 2024

Tuning in to data at Spotify

October 12, 2024

STOR alumna, Haley Talton (class of 2020), now works at Spotify as a data scientist. She took her passion for data science from statistics classes at Carolina to her career at the world’s largest audio streaming service. Talton credits her statistics classes at UNC with introducing her to the foundational skills that she uses daily in her role in Spotify’s finance department working with podcast and advertising monetization. More on this news here.

Available Faculty Positions

September 29, 2024

Applications are invited for three tenure-track assistant professor positions, a professor of the practice position, and a teaching assistant professor position, beginning July 1^st, 2025. More about the positions and deadlines here.

NeuroConnect 2024: Advancing Brain Network Research Workshop

September 12, 2024

The UNC Education Program of Intelligence and Connectomics (UNC-EPIC) hosted the NeuroConnect 2024: Advancing Brain Network Research Workshop in August 2024. This event was organized by Professor Zhengwu Zhang from STOR, along with Professor Guorong Wu and Professor Hongtu Zhu, who are affiliated with STOR as adjunct professors. More information about this event can be found here.

Welcome new faculty members

July 3, 2024

The Statistics and Operations Research Department would like to welcome our newest faculty members, Assistant Professors Mo Liu, Ben Seeger, and Chudi Zhong (jointly with SDSS).

Dr. Liu

Mo’s research lies in decision-focused learning, a methodology that designs and trains prediction models to account for decision-making in downstream optimization problems. These downstream problems include real-world applications in revenue management. Mo received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley, advised by Zuo-Jun Max Shen.

Dr. Seeger

Ben received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2019 under the supervision of Panagiotis E. Souganidis. From 2019 to 2021, he was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Collège de France and the Université Paris-Dauphine (CEREMADE), mentored by Pierre Cardaliaguet and Pierre-Louis Lions. Since 2021, he has been an NSF RTG Postdoctoral Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. His research is concerned with stochastic analysis, in particular, the effects that noise has on models coming from the physical or social sciences. Most recently, he has been interested in the theory and applications of mean field games and other interacting agent models.

Dr. Zhong

Chudi received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in 2024. Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning, optimization, and human-model interaction. She develops interpretable machine learning algorithms and pipelines to facilitate high-stakes decision-making. She was recognized as a Rising Star in Data Science and won second place in the 2023 Bell Labs Prize.

Budhiraja awarded the Heilbronn Distinguished Visiting Fellowship

May 13, 2024

The STOR faculty, Professor Amarjit Budhiraja, was awarded the Heilbronn Distinguished Visiting Fellowship to visit the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge for the Stochastic systems for anomalous diffusion program.  More Details about the fellowship can be found here.

March MATHness

March 25, 2024

On March 4 at 5PM, the Sports Analytics Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) invited Dr. Tim Chartier from Davidson College for a talk titled March MATHness.  More information about the event can be found here.

The SAIL team would like to thank Dr. Tim Chartier and all of the students, staff, and faculty who attended this event. This was not only the first event in our SAIL Spring Speaker Series, but our first invited talk ever. We thank the Statistics and Operations Research Department for their support in the production of this event.

2024 Spring Commencement RSVP’s Have Been E-mailed to STAN Degree Candidates

March 18, 2024

ATTENTION! 

RSVP’S have went out to Statistics degree candidates on Monday, March 18th. Parents and Guardians please join us in encouraging your senior to RSVP to our Departmental Celebration! The link to our RSVP survey is found in their e-mails.

The UNC-CH Mathematics and Statistics and Operations Research Departments will honor graduates in a recognition ceremony on Sunday, May 12th.  We will recognize December 2023, May 2024, and expected August 2024 graduates at our ceremony.

A few important notes about graduation:

• The ceremony will be Sunday, May 12th, at 11:00 AM in Memorial Hall.   You must RSVP by Monday, April 1st at 4:00 PM.  RSVPs after this date will be dependent on ticket availability.

• Guests must have a ticket to attend.

• In addition to our departmental ceremony, the university will host a Spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11th at 7 PM in Kenan Memorial Stadium. The celebration in Kenan does not limit the number of guests you are able to bring. We encourage you to have your larger groups celebrate together with you at this ceremony. (https://commencement.unc.edu/spring-commencement/)

• During the graduate recognition, graduates will walk up a short flight of stairs to reach the commencement stage, please be sure to wear appropriate footwear for this event. If you or your guests need accommodations, please complete the form here with additional information as soon as possible. Requests can be served more effectively if notice is provided at least 14 days before the event.

IMPORTANT: NO BALLOONS INSIDE MEMORIAL HALL!