Harvard Statistics Congratulates 2025 Hoopes Winners 

With commencement and award season upon us, we are pleased to announce our Hoopes Prize winners in the Department of Statistics.  

We celebrate the accomplishments of all our seniors, many of whom took on the challenging feat of writing a thesis.  Supported by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes (class of 1919), the Hoopes fund provides an award to students with outstanding theses and scholarly work. The following eight statistics concentrators and/or statistics concurrent master's students were recognized with a Hoopes Prize:

  •  Elliot Chin for his submission entitled "Population Encoding Dynamics within the Mouse Auditory Cortex” —supervised by Professor Anne Takesian and Professor Subhabrata Sen
  •  Kenneth (Kenny) Gu for his submission entitled “Bootstrap Methods for High-Dimensional Linear and Logistic Regression” —supervised and nominated by Professor Pragya Sur
  •  Brice Laurent for his submission entitled “Epistasis between Somatic Mutations in the Normal Blood” — supervised and nominated by Professor Kamila Naxerova
  •  Victoria Li for her submission entitled “Abortion after Dobbs: A Causal Inference Approach to Changes in Abortion and Fertility” — nominated by Mr. William Nickols and supervised by Professor Stephen Sachs and Dr. Kevin Rader
  • Jamie Liu for his submission entitled “Accelerating Inference: Mitotic Stein Variational Gradient Descent for Bayesian Analysis of Dynamical Systems” —supervised and nominated by Professor Samuel Kou
  • Jacob Miller for his submission entitled “Minding the Attention Gap: Statistical Approaches to Inattentive Survey Respondents” — supervised and nominated by Professor Isaiah Andrews
  • Moses Stewart for his submission entitled “Constructing an Instrument as a Function of Covariates"— supervised and nominated by Dr. Rahul Singh
  • Michael Zhao for his submission entitled “Words Speak as Loudly as Actions: Deep Learning Methods for Stance-Based Ideal Points from Congressional Speeches” — nominated by Mr. António Câmara and supervised by Professor Ariel Procaccia and Mr. António Câmara
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