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Kaytlin Hoey
Stat Ambassadors Blog: Study Tips, Academic Resources, and Productivity Tools
As a student, it is often overwhelming to balance multiple courses, assignments, exams, extracurriculars, social life, and taking care of yourself. I’ve found that the best way to find balance between all these is to try and break infinite tasks, such as studying, into finite, bite sized tasks in...
Lelys Bravo
Lelys Bravo de Guenni’s Global Classrooms Proposal approved for Spring 2027
 Lelys Bravo de Guenni, clinical associate professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received approval from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for a Global Classrooms initiative launching in Spring 2027.The project will connect students...
Ruoqi Yu
Ruoqi Yu receives Campus Research Board Funding and Arnold O. Beckman Award
 Ruoqi Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been selected for funding by the Campus Research Board through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation. Her project, “Design Before Analysis:...
Alexandra Chronopoulou
Alexandra Chronopoulou named Alma Project Senior Faculty Fellow
 Alexandra Chronopoulou, clinical associate professor of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as one of three inaugural Senior Faculty Fellows for the Alma Project, a campus initiative focused on promoting neighborliness and a sense of purpose through...
Yuguo Chen
Yuguo Chen appointed Robert W. Schaefer Professor
 Professor and Department Chair Yuguo Chen has been appointed a Robert W. Schaefer Professor in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The professorship honors the late Robert W. Schaefer (BS ’56, Chemical Engineering), a Illinois alumnus and...

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Xinran Liu
Alumni Spotlight

Xinran Liu ('14)- Data Scientist, Amazon

As an international student, I came to Champaign in the summer of 2012 for Master program in Statistics. Currently I am employed with Amazon as a data scientist, formerly with Zillow. Two years of studying experience in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign definitely prepared me well (and also my classmates I believe) for my early career. If you look at my (and their) career path, there are several possible tracks/concentrations. Credit Risk Modeling (banking or financial service, usually require using SAS, traditional large company) Marketing and sales (market mix model, choice...
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