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The Departments of Linguistics and Statistics at the University of California, Davis jointly invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in Fall 2025. 

A successful candidate is expected to be active in both departments. We are particularly interested in scholars working on the intersection of linguistics and theoretical foundations of large language models, including topics related to generalization, compositionality, interpretability, reliability, and cognitive modeling. 

We are very pleased to announce that Professor and Department Chair Jiming Jiang has received the 2023-2024 SAE Award (full name: Award for Outstanding Contribution to Small Area Estimation). Professor Jiang received the award during the SAE 2023-2024: Small Area Estimation & Data Science, A Conference Celebrating the 65th Birthday of Prof. Partha Lahiri, which was held on June 3-7 in Lima, Peru .

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our former IT Systems Administrator Larry Tai, who died in March 2024. Larry was one of the founding staff members of the our department, when we were born as the Intercollegiate Division of Statistics in 1979. He retired in 2012 and was succeeded by Nehad Ismail. Larry was a much loved presence in the department and those of us who worked with him have fond memories. Our former chair Rudy Beran remembered Larry from the pioneering days of IT in the department:

The Department of Statistics at the University of California, Davis, is soliciting applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor position starting Fall 2024.

We are excited to announce that Yi Han, a PhD candidate in our Statistics program, has been named as a finalist of for the ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section Student Paper Competition. The prize is awarded annually by the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Yi Han's paper, entitled "Change Point Detection in Sequential Pairwise Comparison Data with Covariate Information", will be presented along with those of other finalists at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland.

We are excited to announce that Jue Wang, a PhD candidate in our Statistics program, has been named as the winner of the First Place Award for the Statistics in Imaging Section of the ASA! The prize is awarded annually by the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Jue Wang's winning paper, entitled "Uncertainty Quantification of Object Boundaries Extracted from Spatial Point Pattern Images", will be presented along with those of other winners at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland.

The Department of Statistics at the University of California, Davis, invites applications for several full-time faculty positions in Statistics, starting in Fall 2024.

This search and hiring will be conducted at the assistant professor rank. The search will be primarily in the areas of Data Science, Machine Learning and Modern Statistics, but all areas of Statistics will be considered. Individuals specializing in statistical methods for large and complex or massive data are especially encouraged to apply.

The Departments of Linguistics and Statistics at the University of California, Davis, are soliciting applications for a joint Assistant Professor position starting Fall 2024.

We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Krishna Balasubramanian has been named as a recipient of the 2023 Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award, given by the Office of Graduate Studies to advisors who have displayed outstanding excellence in advising and mentoring of their graduate students.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Jiming Jiang has been invited as the primary speaker for the 31st annual Morris Hansen Lecture. This lecture will be held on November 14, 2023, 

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that Professor Jiming Jiang has been appointed as the new Department Chair, from July 1 2023 until June 30 2026.

Professor Jiang joined the Department in 2001 from Case Western Reserve University, having received his Ph.D. in 1995 from UC Berkeley under Peter J. Bickel.

We are excited to announce that Yi Han, a PhD candidate in our Statistics program, has been named as a winner of this year's ASA Business and Economics Student Paper Award! The prize is awarded annually by the American Statistical Association (ASA). Yi Han's winning paper,  entitled "Structural Break Detection in Non-stationary Network Vector Autoregression Models", will be presented along with those of other winners at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto.

We are delighted to announce that Associate Professor Xiaodong Li has been selected as a Chancellor's Fellow for 2022-23. Congratulations Professor Li!

We are very excited to announce that Distinguished Professor Jane-Ling Wang has been elected as Academician of Academia Sinica at the 34th Convocation of Academicians, held from July 4 to July 7, 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan. (The election was delayed for two years due to the Covid 19 pandemic, so it was in fact the 33rd Academicians election.)

In the latest US News rankings of graduate programs (published 3/28/22), our Statistics graduate program ranked joint 13th in the U.S. This is up from 31st in the previous rankings, and also ranks us 2nd in the UC system as a whole.  The Biostatistics graduate program ranked 24th among Biostats programs nationally.