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Professor Tracy Ke Receives 2024 COPSS Emerging Leader Award

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...
Tracy Ke

Professor Susan Murphy Receives 2024 Mosteller Award

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...
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Interview with Virginia Ma about her 2023 Concurrent Masters Prize

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...
Ginnie Ma and Jason Zhou receive awards

Lucy Tu Receives AAAS Mass Media Fellowship from ASA

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Harvard undergraduate Lucy Tu, who is studying sociology, neuroscience, and the history of science, on her American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Fellowship from the...
Lucy Tu

PhD Students Tianle Liu and Haoyu Ye Win 2023 NESS Awards

The Department of Statistics is pleased to share the 2023 NESS (New England Statistics Symposium) awardees include statistics PhD students Tianle Liu and Haoyu Ye. Tianle won a NESS Student Research Award on his paper co-authored with Professor Morgane...
Haoyu Ye and Tianle Liu Receive Award with Morgane Austern

2022-2023 Dempster Prize is Awarded to Yicong Jiang

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Dempster Prize has been awarded to Yicong Jiang for his paper co-authored with Professor Tracy Ke, "Semi-Supervised Community Detection via Structural Similarity Metrics." The Dempster...
Yicong Jiang Receiving Dempster Award

Professor Xihong Lin is Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The Department of Statistics is proud to share that Professor Xihong Lin has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her continuing achievements in original research. Professor Lin's research focuses on developing...