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Professor Kosuke Imai joins Harvard

January 24, 2018

The Statistics Department is delighted to report that Professor Kosuke Imai (currently Professor, Department of Politics and Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton) will become Professor of Government and Statistics at Harvard from the...

TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR IN STATISTICS

August 17, 2017

The Department of Statistics invites applications for a tenure-track professor for the 2018-19 academic year. Please follow the link for further details: http://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/7763

Congratulations to Professor Susan A. Murphy

January 24, 2018

The Statistics Department is delighted to report that Professor Susan A. Murphy is to be given the 2018 R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship. She will deliver the Fisher Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings this coming summer. Professor Murphy joined...

Harvard' Master of Science (SM) Degree in Data Science

May 10, 2017

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of a new Master of Science (SM) degree in Data Science. The new degree, under the joint academic leadership of the Computer Science and Statistics faculties and administered...

Professor Edoardo Airoldi gives Medallion Lecture at JSM

August 07, 2017

Professor Edoardo Airoldi gave his 2017 Medallion Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Baltimore on “Design and Analysis of Randomized Experiments on Networks.” Each year the Institute of Mathematical Statistics selects eight Medallion lecturers...

Professor Tracy Ke joins Harvard

February 26, 2018

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...

Tracking Dengue using Internet Searches

July 31, 2017

Samuel Kou is one of the co-authors of "Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue” which appeared in PLOS Computational Biology in 2017. Media coverage includes CNN, PLOS press release at Science Daily and Eurekalert, and Deutsches Arzteblatt...

F.N David Award for Professor Xihong Lin

August 03, 2017

Congratulations to Professor Xihong Lin, who has been awarded the 2017 Florence N. David Award by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Society of Canada...

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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...

Professor Susan Murphy joins Harvard Statistics

March 08, 2017

We are delighted that Professor Susan Murphy will join the Harvard Statistics Department on 1st September 2017 as a Professor of Statistics and the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Susan is currently H.E. Robbins...