The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is a top-tier academic unit among statistical and actuarial science globally. Our community is engaged in topics such as actuarial science, biostatistics, data science, quantitative finance, statistics, & statistics-computing. Our department is home to 70 full-time faculty researching diverse and exciting areas, over 2000 undergraduate students from around the world, and approximately 200 graduate students in master, doctoral, and professional programs.
News
Chen, Ramezan and Lysy receive 2026 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award
The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) has awarded the 2026 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award to University of Waterloo researchers Meixi Chen, Reza Ramezan and Martin Lysy for their paper, Fast and scalable inference for spatial extreme value models, published in the Canadian Journal of Statistics in 2025.
Charmaine Dean Receives SSC-CANSSI Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work
Dr. Charmaine Dean has been named the 2026 recipient of the Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work presented by the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) and Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) .
Changbao Wu, 2026 Statistical Society of Canada Gold Medalist
Changbao Wu, Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, is the recipient of the 2026 Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), the Society’s highest honour.
Events
Statistics seminar: Yanjun Han
Yanjun Han
New York University
Room: M3 3127
Joint Actuarial Science and Statistics seminar: Ian Waudby-Smith
Ian Waudby-Smith
University of California, Berkeley
Room: M3 3127