Featured Awards

Fall 2018 Teaching Awards Announced

March 15, 2019

Congratulations to the following Statistics Department students and affiliates, who were awarded Bok Center Teaching Awards, for their teaching in Fall 2018 Statistics courses! CERTIFICATES OF DISTINCTION IN TEACHING for Teaching Fellows, Teaching...

2018 Pickard Teaching Awards

October 25, 2018

The Department of Statistics has awarded its biennial Pickard Teaching Awards to four Teaching Fellows and one Faculty Member. PhD students Sanqian Zhang , Luis Campos , Regan Mozer , and Zach Branson , as well as Assistant Professor Pierre Jacob...

Professor Susan Murphy wins Guy Medal in Silver, 3rd Win in a row for HU Statistics Affiliates

January 31, 2019

Professor Susan Murphy has won this year's Guy Medal in Silver. From the Royal Statistical Society: "The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to Susan Murphy for her methodological, computational and applied work on dynamic treatment regimens. Susan’s...

Two Hoopes Prizes for Undergraduate Senior Thesis Writers

June 14, 2018

Each year Harvard makes awards to the strongest the writers of Senior Theses. This year two Statistics concentrators were given this honor: Loboda, Katherine for her submission entitled “From Mendel’s Peas to P-Values: A Network Approach to Understanding...

Professor Pillai wins Young Statistical Scientist Award

May 15, 2018

The International Indian Statistical Association has made its 2018 Young Statistical Scientist Award in Statistical Theory to Professor Natesh Pillai, Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.

Robin Gong Wins 2018 Dempster Prize

April 30, 2018

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2018 Dempster Prize will be awarded to Robin Gong. She will present her Colloquium entitled “Conditioning rules for sets of probabilities: dilation, sure loss and Simpson’s paradox” at 4.15 Monday...

Dr. Marie-Abele Bind wins a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellowship

September 14, 2017

The Harvard Division of Science recently appointed Dr. Marie-Ab̬le Bind as a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow. This Fellowship program is detailed at https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/jhdsfprogram/current-fellows. Marie-Ab̬le Bind will continue to...

Professor Susan A. Murphy to Receive Precision Medicine Luminary Award

March 15, 2018

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...

Sacks Award to Professor Jun Liu

August 07, 2017

The 2017 “Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research” has been given to Professor Jun Liu for "For groundbreaking research contributions at the interface of statistics and biology, including algorithms for protein sequence analysis, DNA sequence...

Boston ASA's Outstanding Teaching award to Professor Blitzstein

November 20, 2017

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...