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. 

Harvard’s Dean of Science, Professor Jeremy Bloxham, reported on 3^rd May 2018 that “I am delighted to announce that Samuel Kou, Professor of Statistics, has agreed to become the next chair of Statistics, beginning July 1st, 2018. Samuel will bring to the chairmanship the thoughtful style and dedication for which he is so well regarded, and I have every confidence that the Department will continue to flourish under his leadership.”

Outgoing chair, Professor Neil Shephard, remarked: “Sam will be a wonderful chair. He leads by example, his brilliance in both research and...

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 30^th April, Science Center 705.

Previous winners of the Dempster Prize are: Espen Bernton & Xinran Lin in 2017; Anqi Zhao & David Jones in 2016; Panagiotis Toulis in 2015; Peng Ding in 2014; Bo Jiang in 2013; and Alexander Blocker in 2012. The Dempster Prize...

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. 

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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.