Professor Kelly McConville and her summer undergraduate research group are collaborating on survey statistics projects for the US Forest Service.  More specifically, they are working on several different projects, including an exploration of zero-inflation models for estimating forest parameters over small regions, the creation of a watersheds estimation dashboard to inform new precision targets for forest inventory, small area estimates, and the construction of a tool to share carbon accounting estimates and their standard errors.  During their busy day of research, they...

Harvard Statistics Assistant Professor Tracy Ke co-led the New Advances in Statistics and Data Science conference from May 24-26 in Hawaii (a delightful location for the conference!) with Assistant Professor Weichen Wang of the University of Hong Kong.  This 3-day conference focused on the new challenges that we face in the big data era.  These challenges call for novel interdisciplinary research combining statistics, machine learning, econometrics, computer science, and biology.  Through a series of engaging talks and poster presentations, leading researchers offered new...

“Every weekend I go down to the river and try to learn the first trick that everyone does.  When you see it, it doesn’t look impressive but it’s very scary.  I need all the knee pads and elbow pads before I am comfortable doing it.”

Graduating stats concentrator Yash Nair is not afraid to tackle new challenges, whether it’s landing that first skateboarding trick or officially becoming a stats concentrator only a few months ago (it helped that he took many relevant classes along the way!).  Yash capped off his undergraduate experience by receiving the...