The Department is delighted to report that Professor Joe Blitzstein has been awarded the “Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching” by Harvard University’s Division of Sciences. The award “honors outstanding teaching in introductory science courses. Recipients are recommended by a faculty committee and are chosen based on their ability to inspire students, instill in them a passion for science, and effectively communicate complex ideas.”

Joe is the first non-ladder recipient of the Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching.

The Statistics Department is delighted that Professor Cynthia Dwork will become an affiliate of our Department from 1 January 2020. To statisticians she is probably most well known for her co-invention of differential privacy. She is currently working differential privacy, statistical validity in adaptive data analysis, and fairness in classification.

Dwork is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at SEAS, Harvard, the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Professor by Affiliation at Harvard Law School. She is an elected fellow of the...

You can watch the inaugural symposium of the Harvard Data Science Review at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harvard+data+science+conference.

The Harvard Data Science Review is edited by Professor Xiao-Li Meng. You can watch the 2019 Annual Conference of the Harvard Data Science Initiative at ...

Professor Pierre E. Jacob, Associate Professor of Statistics at Harvard, has been given an NSF CAREER award for his project “Unbiased Estimation with Faithful Markov Chains for Scalable Statistical Inference.” Congratulations Pierre! Details of the project are available at:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1844695&HistoricalAwards=false