Awards & Honors
Recent Award Winners
Yongkai Chen Receives 2026 STAI-X Outstanding Paper Award
The Harvard Statistics Department is thrilled to share that Postdoctoral Fellow Yongkai Chen has been selected to receive the 2026 STAI-X Outstanding Paper Award. Chen will be presented the award at the upcoming Statistics and Trustworthy AI for Cross (X)...
Announcing the Carl N. Morris Visiting Day Presentation Prize
The Department of Statistics is thrilled to announce the new Carl N. Morris Visiting Day Presentation Prize, established in memory of Professor Emeritus Carl N. Morris (1939–2023), a beloved member of the department for more than two decades. Professor...
Xiaodong Yang Receives 2026 Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship
The Statistics Department is delighted to announce that Xiaodong Yang, a 4th-year Statistics PhD Student advised by Associate Professor Subhabrata Sen and Professor Emeritus Jun Liu, was awarded a 2026 Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship . This...
Departmental Awards
Dempster Award
2026 Recipients: Nathan Cheng and Xiaodong Yang
Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Award
2026 Recipient: Leo Vanciu
Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Award
2026 Recipients: Emma Finn and Samuel Hwang
Pickard Award
Once every two years, the David Pickard Teaching Awards will be given to individuals who examplify excellence in teaching.
Additional Awards & Honors
Bok Teaching Award
The Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates is given each year to five teaching fellows who have been nominated by their departments.
Hoopes Prize
From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard has received a fund from which to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research.