Berkeley Statistics@UCBStatistics

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 Berkeley, CA
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Joined February 2021
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UC Berkeley Statistics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (@Berkeley_EECS ) is hiring! Details & apply: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05…

Assistant Professor – Intersection of Statistics and CS – Departments of Electrical Engineering &...

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status. #Statistics #CS #FacultyJobs #UCBerkeley
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UC Berkeley Department of Statistics is hiring! We’re seeking applications for our Postdoctoral Neyman Fellow position. Details & apply: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05… #Statistics #Probability #DataScience #FacultyJobs #UCBerkeley

Postdoctoral Neyman Fellow - Department of Statistics

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society invites applicants for open faculty positions. #Biomedicine #ComputationalBiology #ComputerScience #MaterialsScience #Statistics #DataScience bit.ly/3OjKH3J @UCBerkeley @UCSF @UCBStatistics @Berkeley_EECS
Open faculty positions featuring Gateway, home of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. Text displays titles of five faculty positions in areas of computational biomedicine; AI for biology; computer science and statistics; statistics, probability, and data science; and electronic, functional, and quantum materials.

ALT Open faculty positions featuring Gateway, home of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. Text displays titles of five faculty positions in areas of computational biomedicine; AI for biology; computer science and statistics; statistics, probability, and data science; and electronic, functional, and quantum materials.
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2026 Voleon Fellow: João Vitor Romano statistics.berkeley.edu/abou… #BerkeleyStats
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Faculty member @philipbstark was recently quoted in a @ScienceMagazine article about an AI agent independently contacting researchers. Exclusive: An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us why | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/… #BerkeleyStats

Exclusive: An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us why

To get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent

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Faculty member @wfithian co-authored the study. #BerkeleyStats
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A recent report co-authored by UC Berkeley scholars finds a global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible. The researchers’ proposal offers a potential path to reducing AI risks through international cooperation and verifiable safeguards. bit.ly/4jhZoVY
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UC Berkeley Department of Statistics is hiring! We’re seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Statistics, Probability, and Data Science. Details & apply: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05… #BerkeleyStats #Probability #DataScience #FacultyJobs #UCBerkeley
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The 2026 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture, hosted by @StatisticsFSU, is only one month away! 🤩 This year's speaker is Bin Yu, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at @UCBerkeley. The lecture, titled "Veridical Data Science Towards Trustworthy AI," will explore human judgement's role in the data science life cycle. Yu will introduce how three fundamental principles — predictability, computability and stability — can more clearly identify potential uncertainties and risks in AI algorithms. 🗓️ Friday, Nov. 6 ⏰ 2 p.m. 📍 Chemical Sciences Building Auditorium For more info on this year's event, including virtual attendance registration, visit: fla.st/ADO58YF7. @FloridaState @UCBStatistics @Berkeley_EECS
Event flyer for the 2026 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture.

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2026 Berkeley Statistics Annual Research Symposium Join us for BSTARS, a gathering for the UC Berkeley Statistics department and friends, featuring a keynote speech by Professor Yun Song. November 4 - Gateway 5th floor event space docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #BerkeleyStats
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The International Balzan Foundation recognized faculty member Rasmus Nielsen with its 2026 Balzan Prize for Molecular Evolution. ls.berkeley.edu/news/rasmus-… #BerkeleyStats
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Berkeley Statistics Homecoming Mixer 2026 Friday, October 9th, 3-5pm at the South Courtyard of the Gateway Join Statistics faculty, students, alums, donors, and friends for a mixer at UC Berkeley’s homecoming weekend! RSVP required: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #BerkeleyStats
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UC Berkeley researchers create a new AI model for DNA to unlock secrets of the human genome. 🔗 bit.ly/4r0jKoi @yun_s_song @UCBerkeley @UCBStatistics @Berkeley_EECS @Nature #Health #DNA #Genomics #ComputationalBiomedicine #AI #Berkeley #UCBerkeley
Collage of two photos: Yun Song, Gonzolo Benegas and Chengzhong Ye in Song’s office on the UC Berkeley campus; an illustration of a DNA strand. Text reads: UC Berkeley researchers create a new AI model for DNA to unlock secrets of the human genome.

ALT Collage of two photos: Yun Song, Gonzolo Benegas and Chengzhong Ye in Song’s office on the UC Berkeley campus; an illustration of a DNA strand. Text reads: UC Berkeley researchers create a new AI model for DNA to unlock secrets of the human genome.

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We are thrilled to share that our GPN-Star manuscript is now published and freely available: doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-1… (1/n)

Predicting genome-wide functional constraints with GPN-Star

Nature - GPN-Star, a genomic language model with a phylogeny-aware architecture for whole-genome alignment data, is shown to be a scalable and flexible tool for genetic variant effect prediction...

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Amanda L. Golbeck,  Ph.D. '83 recently appeared on the Stats + Stories podcast, where she spoke about two of the department's founders, Elizabeth Scott and F.N. David. statsandstories.net/society1… #BerkeleyStats
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Welcome to @uuujingfeng and Kevin Yang! #BerkeleyStats
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CDSS welcomes 6 new faculty members! 🎉 @UCBStatistics @Berkeley_EECS 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4qVhZZK #PeopleOfCDSS #NewFaculty #Statistics #ComputerScience #ElectricalEngineering
Collage of CDSS faculty members Behcet Açıkmeşe, YoungJu Jo, Asir Khan, Kater Murch, Jingfeng Wu and Kevin Yang.

ALT Collage of CDSS faculty members Behcet Açıkmeşe, YoungJu Jo, Asir Khan, Kater Murch, Jingfeng Wu and Kevin Yang.

Text reads: “Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). Behcet Açıkmeşe, Chancellor’s Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; YoungJu Jo, assistant professor; Asir Khan, assistant professor; Kater Murch, professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics. Department of Statistics: Jingfeng Wu, assistant professor; Kevin Yang, assistant professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Mathematics."

ALT Text reads: “Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). Behcet Açıkmeşe, Chancellor’s Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; YoungJu Jo, assistant professor; Asir Khan, assistant professor; Kater Murch, professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics. Department of Statistics: Jingfeng Wu, assistant professor; Kevin Yang, assistant professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Mathematics."
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Last week, Statistics faculty member Andrew Bray gave the very first lecture in the new Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway. One of many more to come here in our new home! #BerkeleyStats Photo: Kayla Sim
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Assistant Professor Amanda Coston has been awarded a significant research grant by the Hellman Foundation. statistics.berkeley.edu/abou… #BerkeleyStats
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Transfer students prepare for their UC Berkeley journey this fall through a new CDSS program – Transfer Launch! 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4wHyR7r @Berkeley_EECS @UCBStatistics @UCBerkeley

Transfer students prepare for their UC Berkeley launch this fall

More than a week before the fall semester at UC Berkeley officially began, 53 eager transfer students arrived on campus Aug. 9 to participate in a new program hosted by the College of Computing, Data...

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Why We Don’t Need More Data Centers to Build Better AI In a recent Berkeley News interview, Statistics faculty member Fernando Pérez discussed the future of AI and smaller, more efficient open-source technologies. #BerkeleyStats
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UC Berkeley scientists say AI can move beyond data centers to more energy-efficient options. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3TW5Qal @SchmidtDSE @UCBStatistics @NatureAtCal @UCBerkeley #Berkeley #DataScience #OpenSource #OpenScience #PeopleOfCDSS
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