Featured Awards

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...

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Morgane Austern on receiving the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for her project on “ Distributional Approximation for...

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Professor José Zubizarreta on his American Statistical Association 2025 Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) Mid-Career Award. A Professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard...

We would like to congratulate Preceptor in Statistics Julie Vu on receiving a 2024 Excellence in Teaching Prize! This inaugural prize recognizes outstanding teaching conducted by non-ladder faculty. In particular, the Office of Undergraduate Education...

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Souhardya Sengupta, a PhD student entering his 3 rd year, on winning the 2024 Dempster Award for his exceptional paper titled "Leveraging Sparsity in the Gaussian Linear Model for Improved Inference"...

We are thrilled to announce that the recipients of the 2024 Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize are William Nickols (a Joint Concentrator in Chemical & Physical Biology and Statistics) and Kevin Luo (a Joint Concentrator in Statistics and...

The Department awarded the 2024 Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize to Skyler Wu at our Commencement Celebration on May 23rd. Skyler, who is graduating with an A.B. in Statistics and Mathematics (Joint) and S.M. in Applied Mathematics, was...

With commencement and award season upon us, we are pleased to announce Harvard prizes that our concentrators have received this year, including our seven 2024 Hoopes Prize winners and one Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning. We celebrate...