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Professor Joseph Blitzstein is Elected to the FAS Faculty Council
The Department would like to congratulate Professor of the Practice Joseph Blitzstein on his election to a divisional seat for Science and Engineering on the FAS Faculty Council for a term of three years, starting in the fall of 2023. Professor Blitzstein...
Joseph Blitzstein

Professor Tracy Ke is a 2023 Sloan Research Fellow
The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Tracy Ke on being selected to be a 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics for the next two years! According to the Sloan Research Fellows website, the fellowship...
Ke

Professor Subhabrata Sen Receives NSF Career Award
The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Subhabrata Sen on receiving the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for his project on “Statistical Inference in High...
Subhabrata Sen

PhD Student Lu Zhang Receives the 2022 SLDS Student Paper Award
Graduating PhD Student Lu Zhang won the 2022 Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Award for her paper entitled “ Floodgate: Inference for Model-Free Variable Importance” and presented it at the SLDS section in JSM 2022. This paper...
Lu Zhang

Yash Nair awarded 2022 Department’s Undergraduate Prize
The Department has decided to award the 2022 Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize to Yash Nair for his superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis. Congratulations on your achievement, Yash! The Undergraduate Department of...
Yash Nair Undergraduate Thesis Prize

Five Hoopes Winners in the Statistics Department
Congratulations to the below concentrators (and their advisors) on receiving Hoopes Prizes for their outstanding theses! This year, we are thrilled to have the following five winners in our Department: Jay Chandra for his project entitled “Classification...

2021 Dempster Prize awarded to Ambarish Chattopadhyay
The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2021 Dempster Prize will be awarded to Ambarish Chattopadhyay for his paper (with Jose Zubizarreta) "On the implied weights of linear regression for causal inference". Congratulations to Ambarish! We...
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2019 Dempster Prize Winner: Wenshuo Wang
The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Wenshuo Wang on being named the winner of the 2019 Dempster Prize, for his paper "Metropolized Knockoff Sampling" (abstract below). Wenshuo presented his paper on Friday, November 15th. More...
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