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Asher Spector award the 2021 Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize

May 19, 2021

The Department has decided to award the 2021 Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize to Asher Spector for his superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis.

The Undergraduate Department of Statistics Prize was founded in 2020. It is given annually to the graduating senior concentrator who has the best overall performance (as indicated by coursework results and thesis) and who...

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Professor Zheng Tracy Ke wins Peter Hall IMS Early Career Prize

May 13, 2021

The Department is delighted that our Professor Tracy Ke has won the Peter Hall IMS Early Career Prize. The IMS announcement is below.

The Peter Gavin Hall Early Career Prize recognizes early-career research accomplishments and research promise in statistics, broadly construed. The 2021 recipient of the Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize is Zheng Tracy Ke of Harvard University.

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Three Statistics concentrators receive Hoopes Prize for outstanding senior theses

May 10, 2021

Congratulations to the below concentrators on receiving Hoopes Prizes for their outstanded theses; also to their advisors!

 

Stephen Casper for his thesis “Efficient and Insidious Adversaries in Deep Reinforcement Learning", advised by Professor Gabriel Kreiman and Professor Lucas Janson.

Katherine Deng for her thesis “Toward a Latent Space Understanding of Regional Identity and Social Connectedness in the United States”, advised by Professor Benjamin Golub and Professor Tracy Ke.

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