Niloy Biswas, a PhD student at the Harvard’s Department of Statistics, was given the 2021 Laplace Award by the American Statistical Association. The ASA wrote “Niloy was selected for his paper titled "Coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo for high-dimensional regression with Half-t priors" authored with Anirban Bhattacharya (Texas A&M), Pierre E. Jacob (Harvard), and James E. Johndrow (University of Pennsylvania). Xiao-Li Meng is Niloy's advisor. ” More details are at:

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The Department of Statistics is delighted to note that Professor Susan A. Murphy has been appointed Mallinckrodt Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science. Congratulations Susan!

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies has written about Dr. Arianna Rosenbluth, alumni of Radcliffe College, who was the first to implement a MCMC algorithm --- which revolutionized statistics in the 1990s onwards.

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/flash-of-genius

The Department has decided to award the 2021 Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize to Asher Spector for his superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis.

The Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize was founded in 2020. It is given annually to the graduating senior concentrator who has the best overall performance (as indicated by coursework results and thesis) and who...