Professor Pierre Jacob, our Ph.D. student John O’Leary, and Professor Yves Atchade of BU will present their JRSSB discussion paper, “Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo methods with couplings” at the Royal Statistical Society on 11 December 2019. The paper is available at https://www.rss.org.uk/Images/PDF/publications/2019/Jacob-11-Dec-2019.pdf. Contributions to the discussion can be made by emailing j.shorten@rss.org.uk.
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
Professor Susan A. Murphy became President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics on 31st July 2019, taking over from our own Professor Xiao-Li Meng. Other Harvard Faculty members who were, at one time or other, President are W.G. Cochran (1946), Herman Chernoff (1968), Frederick Mosteller (1975) and Xiao-Li Meng (2019). Congratulations Susan!
Xiao-Li Meng founded and is the first editor of the Harvard Data Science Review, which launched 2 July 2019. It is an open access journal of the Harvard Data Science Initiative published by the MIT Press. See more details at: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/.
Harvard is advertising Tenure-track Appointments in Science, Mathematics, and/or Statistics. Notice the deadline for applications is quite early: October 7, 2019.
Congratulations to Luke Miratrix, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Statistics Department Affiliate. Luke has been awarded a 2019 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. The award highlights mentors who help their graduate advisees thrive at Harvard. Graduate students nominate faculty for the award, and winners are chosen by a Harvard Graduate Student Council selection committee.
We are pleased to announce Pierre Jacob's promotion to Associate Professor. He is recognized as a great scholar, teacher, mentor, and department citizen. Congratulations!
The Faculty of the Department of Statistics is delighted to report that Dr. Subhabrata Sen will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Statistics from 1 July 2019. He is currently Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow at Microsoft Research NE and MIT Mathematics. Dr. Sen received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2017. Subhabrata work covers statistics, machine learning and applied probability. He has recently been focusing on models for random graphs and contagion models on social networks.
