Yufan Li and Tianle Liu Win 2025 Dempster Prize

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Yufan Li and Tianle Liu, '25 PhD graduates, on winning the 2025 Dempster Award.  Yufan received the award for his paper on "Spectrum-aware Debiasing: a Modern Inference Framework with Applications to Principal Components Regression," co-authored with Assistant Professor Pragya Sur.  Tianle received the award for his paper on "A Heavily Right Strategy for Integrating Dependent Studies in Any Dimension," co-authored with Professors Xiao-Li Meng and Natesh Pillai.

The Dempster fund was started in 2012 by Stephen Blyth, a 1992 PhD alumnus, in honor of his advisor, faculty emeritus Arthur P. Dempster.  The purpose of the award is to “support and recognize promising graduate students within the Department of Statistics, in particular those who have made significant contributions to theoretical or foundational research in statistics.”