The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has honored Professor Natesh Pillai, Professor of Statistics, by electing him to their Fellowship in their 2021 intake.

Dr. Pillai received the award for significant contributions to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, mixing times of Markov chains and bridging the gap between applied probability, statistics, and computation.

The Faculty of the Department of Statistics is delighted to report that Dr. Morgane Austern will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Statistics from 1 July 2021. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Microsoft Research NE. Dr. Austern received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2019. Morgane’s work covers statistics, machine learning and probability theory.

The 2021 International Prize in Statistics, has been awarded to our colleague Nan Laird, Professor of Biostatistics (Emerita) at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health for her work on powerful methods that have made possible the analysis of complex longitudinal studies.

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Professor Laird received her Ph.D. from our Department in 1975, under the supervision of Arthur P. Dempster. An interview with...

Congratulations to Professor Xihong Lin, who is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Professor of Biostatistics in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has been awarded the 2021 Mosteller Statistician of the Year award from the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association. The award is in recognition of her pioneering work on statistical methods for the analysis of massive genomic, epidemiological, and health data, and of her leadership and major contributions to the statistics community locally, nationally, and internationally.