The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Dempster Prize has been awarded to Yicong Jiang for his paper co-authored with Professor Tracy Ke, "Semi-Supervised Community Detection via Structural Similarity Metrics." The Dempster Prize is named in honor of Emeritus Professor Arthur P. Dempster and is given annually to a graduate student in recognition of their research. We are very grateful to all of our graduate students who took part in the competition.
Previous winners of the Dempster Prize include Ambarish Chattopadhyay (2021), Lu Zhang (2020), Wenshuo Wang (2019), Robin Gong (2018), Espen Bernton and Xinran Lin (2017), Anqi Zhao and David Jones (2016), Panagiotis Toulis (2015), Peng Ding (2014), Bo Jiang (2013), and Alexander Blocker (2012).