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Statistics, as a core discipline focusing on data-driven discovery, understanding, and decision-making, is rapidly evolving and advancing in the data science era. The new Department of Statistics and Data Science aims to be a world-class department with outstanding scholars who will transform the university intellectual community not only through their own activities and achievements but also through synergistic collaborations with existing faculty and departments across Arts & Sciences, the McKelvey School of Engineering, and all of the other schools at the university.
The department aims to provide a foundation for ambitious and innovative digital transformation across a range of disciplinary areas, filling a vital niche in the current academic landscape that leverages the emerging opportunities of computational and data science. The Department values foundational as well as transdisciplinary scholarship, and will focus on using data to offer solutions to some of the most complex global issues.