Featured Awards

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...

The Department is thrilled to share that Assistant Professor Subhabrata Sen has received a 2024 Roslyn Abramson Award for “excellence and sensitivity in teaching undergraduates." Established by Edward Abramson '57, the award is given annually to two...

Concentrator Mridula (Mally) Shan received First Place Prize (specifically, she won the Ruth and Silen M.D. Award for Public Health, Epidemiology, or Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering, and Clinical or Social Science) in...

We are pleased to share that Associate Professor Tracy Ke received a 2024 COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Emerging Leader Award for her contributions to statistical text analysis, statistical methods for complex network data...