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University of Texas at Austin, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences

Company Overview

The mission of the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Statistics and Data Sciences (SDS) is to be a world-class hub for research and education in statistics and data science focused on harnessing the power of data to promote interdisciplinary scientific discovery, providing principled insights into society's greatest challenges, and enabling data-driven decision-making.

SDS was established in 2014 and is the newest department in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. The department has grown rapidly over the past few years and currently has 26 tenured/tenure track faculty, including 13 with appointments split between two departments.

The department offers several degrees including a Ph.D. in Statistics, a concurrent M.S. in Statistics, and a B.S. in Statistics and Data Science. In addition, the department partners with the Department of Computer Science on the online M.S. in Data Science (MSDS) Program

Company History

SDS was established in 2014.

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  • 10 days ago

    Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty Position Scientific Machine Learning and AI for Science

    University of Texas at Austin: Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Department of Statistics and Data Sciences - Austin, TX, United States
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    The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin have an opening for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position beginning Fall 2026 in the area of Scientific Machine Learning and AI for Science. We are seeking candidates who address challenging scientific and technological problems through advances in statistical and mathematical AI and ML theory and algorithms. Examples of topics of interest ...

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  • 25 days ago

    Tenure-Track/Tenured Faculty Positions in Statistics and Data Sciences

    University of Texas at Austin, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences - Austin, TX, United States
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    The Department of Statistics and Data Sciences (SDS) at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for tenured or tenure-track faculty positions to begin in August 2026. We welcome applicants at any rank with research interests in any area ofstatistics and data science, whether theoretical, computational, or application-driven. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who work inscientific machine learning, the mathematical and statistical foundations of machine learning, ...

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