July 1, 2025
Dan Nicolae, Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Faculty Co-Director of the Data Science Institute and the Committee on Data Science, is appointed as Interim Chair of the Department of Statistics from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. Dan previously served as chair from 2016 to 2022.
Effective July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029, Matthew Stephens, Ralph W. Gerard Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, will return as Chair of the Department of Statistics.