Concentrator Mridula (Mally) Shan received First Place Prize (specifically, she won the Ruth and Silen M.D. Award for Public Health, Epidemiology, or Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering, and Clinical or Social Science) in poster presentations for this year’s New England Science Symposium. The poster presented Mally's work on a health security dashboard that she originally created in Stat 108...
We are pleased to share that Associate Professor Tracy Ke received a 2024 COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Emerging Leader Award for her contributions to statistical text analysis, statistical methods for complex network data, sparse inference and rare/weak signals, and for her service to the scientific community. This award is given annually to a maximum of eight early career statistical scientists in recognition of their accomplishments and potential for shaping their field and... Read more about Professor Tracy Ke Receives 2024 COPSS Emerging Leader Award
We are pleased to share that Professor Xihong Lin was invited to attend a roundtable discussion on March 2nd at the White House. Hosted by the White House and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the meeting included the following attendees: leaders from the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF), Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Deputy Assistant...
The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the publication of our annual newsletter, "Stats News Winter 2023-2024." The purpose of this newsletter is to help alums and current students, postdocs, and faculty stay connected at Harvard and beyond.
Please take a look at some of the stories in our newsletter, including the following:
With great excitement, the Department of Statistics would like to share that Professor Susan Murphy was selected by the American Statistical Association's Boston Chapter as the recipient of the 2024 Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award. The award was named after Professor Fred Mosteller, one of the founding members of our department. Every year the Boston Chapter presents the Statistician of the Year award to a distinguished statistician who... Read more about Professor Susan Murphy Receives 2024 Mosteller Award
In May 2023, Virginia (Ginnie) Linqian Ma won the inaugural Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize (along with Jason Zhou ’23 AB/AM). This prize is awarded annually to the graduating master’s (AM) student who has the best overall performance in coursework, has demonstrated achievements in Statistics outside of coursework, and has contributed significantly to the department. In following interview (excerpted and edited) from the summer (pardon the publishing delay!), Ginnie speaks with us about her journey as a master’s student through the Stats...
In the May 2023 Commencement Celebration, PhD student Yicong Jiang was awarded the 2022-2023 Dempster Prize for his paper co-authored with Professor Tracy Ke, "Semi-Supervised Community Detection via Structural Similarity Metrics." The Dempster Prize is named in honor of Emeritus Professor Arthur P. Dempster and is given annually to a graduate student in recognition of the student’s research. In the following excerpted and edited interview, Yicong shares with us how the Stats Department helped him adjust to living in a new country, discover his passion for research, and hone...
Statistics concentrator and master’s alum Jason Zhou was awarded the inaugural Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize in May 2023 (along with alum Virginia Ma). This prize is given annually to the graduating concurrent master’s student who has the best overall performance (as indicated by coursework results), has demonstrated achievements in statistics outside of coursework, and has contributed significantly to the department. To celebrate his award and learn about his thesis...
This year, concentrator alum Rachel Li received the May 2023 Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize for her superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis. Originally named the Department of Statistics Undergraduate Prize, the award was founded in 2020 and is given annually to the graduating senior concentrator who has the best overall performance and has contributed significantly to the department. In an interview (edited and excerpted below), Rachel shared her most...