Academic Job Opportunities

Assistant Professor in Statistics

Applications are invited for a Full-Time Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. This appointment is for a full-time position with a 9-month service period (September 16 - June 15) and an anticipated start date of September 16, 2024. We encourage applicants whose interests align with our commitment to fostering diversity and inclusivity to apply. All UW faculty engage in teaching, research, and service.

Washington State Law requires that this ad list a binding salary range. The base salary range for this position will be $11,668 - $14,446 per month on a 9-month basis ($105,012 - $130,014 annually), commensurate with experience and qualifications, or as mandated by a U.S. Department of Labor prevailing wage determination.

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Assistant Teaching Professor in Statistics

Applications are invited for a non-tenure track Assistant Teaching Professor position in Statistics. This is a full-time position with a 9-month service period (September 16 – June 15), commencing no earlier than September 16, 2024.  The successful candidate will be expected to teach at both introductory and advanced undergraduate levels, and to engage in a thoughtful and modern approach to statistical pedagogy.

The Department of Statistics at the University of Washington (UW) is a nationwide leader in statistics research and education.  The successful candidate will join a growing group of over 25 full-time faculty members who are deeply involved in growing and diversifying the data science and statistics curriculum offered by the department. 

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Acting Assistant Professor in Statistics

Applications are invited for a non-tenure track Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. This is a full-time position with a 9-month service period (September 16 - June 15) and an anticipated start date of September 16, 2024.

The Department of Statistics is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community. All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. We encourage applications from individuals whose backgrounds or interests align with this commitment.

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Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary

Applications are invited for a Lecturer Part-Time - Temporary position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.

This appointment is for a part-time temporary position, with either a quarterly (September 16 - December 15 for Autumn quarter, December 16 - March 15 for Winter quarter, or March 16 - June 15 for Spring quarter) or a 9-month (September 16 - June 15) service period, depending on departmental needs. 

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Statistics Graders and Tutors

Applications are invited for Graders and Tutors in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.

These are hourly appointments open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Appointments are made on a quarterly basis. Current pay rates can be found here.

Graders provide diverse services as course assistants. Duties typically include grading student papers and examinations, consultation with instructors and other duties as assigned.

Tutors provide support and guidance to further undergraduate Statistical education in all introductory Statistics courses. For more information on this program, please visit this page.

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Research Papers

Vincent Roulet, Atish Agarwala, Fabian Pedregosa
Published 11/30/2023
Recent empirical work has revealed an intriguing property of deep learning models by which the sharpness (largest eigenvalue of the Hessian) increases throughout optimization until it stabilizes around a critical value at which the optimizer operates at the edge of stability, given a fixed stepsize (Cohen et al, 2022). We investigate empirically…
Yiyi Huo, Yingying Fan, Fang Han
Published 11/27/2023
Researchers often hold the belief that random forests are "the cure to the world's ills" (Bickel, 2010). But how exactly do they achieve this? Focused on the recently introduced causal forests (Athey and Imbens, 2016; Wager and Athey, 2018), this manuscript aims to contribute to an ongoing research trend towards answering this question, proving that causal forests…
Sara LaPlante, Emilija Perkovic
Published 11/10/2023
We consider the problem of identifying a conditional causal effect through covariate adjustment. We focus on the setting where the causal graph is known up to one of two types of graphs: a maximally oriented partially directed acyclic graph (MPDAG) or a partial ancestral graph (PAG). Both MPDAGs and PAGs represent equivalence classes of possible underlying causal…

Recent News

We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during Winter 2024. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate students of…
Each year in the fall, the Department of Statistics awards talented graduate students the Z.W. Birnbaum award and the Dorothy M. Gilford teaching award. The Z.W. Birnbaum award recognizes a PhD…
We are pleased to announce that Adrian Raftery has become the founding chair of the recently established PNAS Statistical Review Committee. The goal of the new committee is to improve the quality of…