About

Our department aims to be a diverse community engaged in areas of education and research in Statistical Theory and Methods, Data Science, Actuarial Science, Financial Mathematics, and Applied Probability; our research collaborations represent a wide range of interdisciplinary fields including environmental science, computer science, and biomedical science. We are home to the UCSB Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research, an interdisciplinary research center providing leadership in quantitative finance. We also provide consulting services through our Data Science Consulting Laboratory: DataLab

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At its core, our department views diversity and inclusion as critical within our mission to educate and prepare the future workforce of data scientists and quantitative thinkers. Increasing diversity across our field is essential in creating more productive, representative, and enriching outcomes as well as innovative solutions to critical problems. We recognize that historically, the job markets and academic communities in statistical theory and methods, financial mathematics, and actuarial science have been weighted toward racial, gender, and socioeconomically privileged communities. We are dedicated to correcting this imbalance in our own community.

PSTAT Department Calendar

May 2023

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Seminar - Professor Igor Mezic (UCSB Mechanical Engineering)
05/03/2023 - 15:30 to 16:30
 
 
 
 
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Seminar - Professor Richard Hahn (ASU)
05/10/2023 - 15:30 to 16:30
 
 
 
 
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Seminar - Professor Daisuke Murakami
05/17/2023 - 15:30 to 16:30
 
 
 
 
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Seminar - Professor Tamma Carleton (UCSB Bren School)
05/24/2023 - 15:30 to 16:30
 
 
 
 
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Seminar - Professor Annie Qu (UCI)
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Announcements

Myranda Flores awarded the Staff Citation of Excellence Award

Myranda Flores, PSTAT Student Affairs Manager and Graduate Program Advisor, is one of the recipients of the 2023 UCSB Staff Citation of Excellence Award.

  1. Staff Citation of Excellence Award
Actuarial Researchers - Insurance Mathematics and Economics (IME) Conference

Reminder!

The 26th International Congress on Insurance: Mathematics and Economics (IME 2023) will take place on 4th – 7th July 2023, hosted by the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University.

UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives

Professor Mengyang Gu was awarded with UC Collaborative for AI-enabled Materials Exploration and Optimization (UC-CAMEO) in UC Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative. 

Upcoming Seminars

Seminar - Professor Annie Qu (UCI)

Crowdsourcing Utilizing Subgroup Structure of Latent Factor Modeling
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  1. May 31, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
  1. Department Seminar
Seminar - Dr. Daniel Zhengyu Huang

Derivative-Free Bayesian Inference for Large-Scale Inverse Problems
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  1. June 7, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
  1. Department Seminar