Susan Murphy, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, will receive a Luminary Award at the Precision Medicine 2018 World Conference for her work developing innovative data science methods to improve mobile health care for patients with chronic disease.
The Faculty of the Department of Statistics is delighted to report that Professor Tracy Ke will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Statistics from 1 July 2018. Tracy is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Tracy works on high dimensional statistics, sparse inference, genetics & genomics, fMRI, large scale social networks, random matrix theory and financial econometrics.
The Statistics Department is delighted to report that Professor Susan A. Murphy is to be given the 2018 R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship. She will deliver the Fisher Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings this coming summer. Professor Murphy joined our Department in 2017 as the Professor of Statistics, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University and Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
The Statistics Department is delighted to report that Professor Kosuke Imai (currently Professor, Department of Politics and Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton) will become Professor of Government and Statistics at Harvard from the fall of 2018 and be a senior faculty member of our Department. Professor Imai's research area is political methodology and more generally applied statistics in the social sciences. He has extensively worked on the development and applications of statistical methods for causal inference with experimental and observational data.
The Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association (BCASA) has announced: The BCASA Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching of Statistics is to be given to Professor Joe Blitzstein, Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Harvard University. Congratulations, Joe!
