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Morgane Austern Is a 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Morgane Austern on being selected as a 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics . This is an enormous achievement, as the fellowship was awarded to 126 individuals...
Morgane Austern

Asher Spector Featured in the Wall Street Journal
We are thrilled to share that Asher Spector, a Statistics alum, was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal this month following the launch of his new AI research lab, Flapping Airplanes. The start-up aims to solve the "data efficiency" problem in artificial...
Asher Spector Headshot

Cynthia Dwork Receives 2026 Japan Prize
We are pleased to share that Affiliate Faculty Cynthia Dwork, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has received the prestigious 2026 Japan Prize honoring achievements in the...
Cynthia Dwork

Julie Vu Is Featured in the Harvard Crimson
The Department of Statistics would like to share a recent interview in the Harvard Crimson with Curriculum/Pedagogy Specialist Julie Vu, “Fifteen Questions: Julie Vu on Human Judgment, Teaching Philosophies, and Why Good Data Matters” by Megha Khemka. The...
Julie Vu

Mark Glickman's New Model for Rating Competitors
The Harvard Department of Statistics is thrilled to share that Senior Lecturer Mark Glickman has recently had two papers accepted for publication by peer-reviewed journals in statistics and data science. His work on developing an improved rating system...
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Xihong Lin Receives the Lowell Reed Lecture Award

The Department of Statistics is pleased to share that Xihong Lin was selected to receive the Lowell Reed Lecture Award from the Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The award is presented annually to a statistician...
Xihong Lin

Mark Sellke Receives 2026 Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award
The Department of Statistics is thrilled to share that Assistant Professor Mark Sellke has been awarded the 2026 Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award in Probability Theory . Prof. Sellke received this recognition for developing a theory of algorithmic...
Mark Sellke

Yufan Li and Tianle Liu Win 2025 Dempster Prize
The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Yufan Li and Tianle Liu, '25 PhD graduates, on winning the 2025 Dempster Award. Yufan received the award for his paper on " Spectrum-aware Debiasing: a Modern Inference Framework with Applications to...
Tianle Liu and Yufan Li pose with their Dempster Awards with Professor Natesh Pillai at the 2025 Commencement Celebration

Interview with 2024 Dempster Prize Recipient Souhardya Sengupta
In May 2024, PhD student Souhardya Sengupta received the 2024 Dempster Award for his exceptional paper titled " Leveraging Sparsity in the Gaussian Linear Model for Improved Inference," co-authored with Associate Professor Lucas Janson. The Dempster Prize...
Souhardya Sengupta