Featured Awards

Congratulations to William Nickols, the May 2024 recipient (along with Kevin Luo) of the Department of Statistics Concurrent Master’s Prize! The prize is awarded annually to up to two graduating students from the Concurrent Master’s program in Statistics...

Congratulations to Kevin Luo, the May 2024 recipient (along with William Nickols) of the Department of Statistics Concurrent Master’s Prize! The prize is awarded annually to up to two graduating students having completed the Concurrent Master’s program in...

The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce that, in recognition of his "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research," Professor Jun Liu was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . Founded in 1863, the National Academy of...

In 2024, alum Skyler Wu received the 2024 Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize at our Commencement Celebration on May 23, 2024. Wu graduated with an AB in Statistics and Mathematics (Joint) and an SM in Applied Mathematics. He was selected...

The Department of Statistics announces that Senior Lecturer Mark Glickman has received the 2025 Founders Award from the American Statistical Association (ASA). Dr. Glickman was selected by ASA "for demonstrating exceptional dedication to advancing the...

The Department of Statistics is excited to share that Assistant Professor Mark Sellke was awarded the 2025 Rollo Davidson Prize for “his wide-ranging contributions to applications of probability, especially in the development and understanding of...

The Department of Statistics would like to announce that Dr. Xihong Lin , Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at Harvard University, has been elected to be a 2024 AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Fellow in the Section on...

The Department of Statistics is excited to share that Dr. Asim Gazi, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Susan Murphy's lab, received a NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) K99 Pathway to Independence Award for his...

The Department of Statistics is thrilled to share that Assistant Professor Mark Sellke has been selected to be a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow in the area of mathematics. According to the Sloan Research Fellowships website, these two-year fellowships are...

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Pragya Sur on receiving the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for her project on “ High-dimensional Learning and...