Academic Job Opportunities

Lecturer Part-Time

Applications are invited for a non-tenure track Lecturer Part-Time position in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington. This is a multi-year, part-time position with a 9-month service period September 16 - June 15) and an anticipated start date of September 16, 2026. The base full-time salary range for this position will be $8,000 - $11,500 per month. Compensation level will be based on professional experience and level of assigned duties.

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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.

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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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Research Papers

Aparajithan Venkateswaran, Emilija Perkovic
Published 7/9/2024
We study the problem of restricting Markov equivalence classes of maximal ancestral graphs (MAGs) containing certain edge marks, which we refer to as expert knowledge. MAGs forming a Markov equivalence class can be uniquely represented by an essential ancestral graph. We seek to learn the restriction of the essential ancestral graph containing the…
Vincent Roulet, Atish Agarwala, Jean-Bastien Grill, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Mathieu Blondel, Fabian Pedregosa
Published 7/8/2024

Curvature information -- particularly, the largest eigenvalue of the loss Hessian, known as the sharpness -- often forms the basis for learning rate tuners. However, recent work has shown that the curvature information undergoes complex dynamics during training, going from a phase of…

Recent News

We are excited to announce that the statistics department at UW will once again be running a Directed Reading Program (DRP) during the Winter 2026 quarter. The DRP is an opportunity for undergraduate…
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…
Dear Friends of UW Statistics,As 2025 draws to a close, I am delighted to share a department update with you!It has been another fantastic year for UW Statistics.  This past June, we celebrated…