During the weekend of May 1 - 3, teammates at DataFest 2026 pondered upon the dataset that they had been given.

"Algorithms & Innovations in Data Science" was a workshop held on April 10, 2026. It honored our department's founding chair, Jan de Leeuw. This photo shows all 5 of our chairs (past and present). Pictured from left to right are Rick Schoenberg, Qing Zhou, Jan de Leeuw, Mark Handcock and Hongquan Xu.

Two of our faculty show their UCLA pride when posing with Joe Bruin!

On May 30 the members of STAND showed their selflessness and sorted food at the LA Regional Food Bank!