Concentrator Mridula (Mally) Shan received First Place Prize (specifically, she won the Ruth and Silen M.D. Award for Public Health, Epidemiology, or Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering, and Clinical or Social Science) in poster presentations for this year’s New England Science Symposium. The poster presented Mally's work on a health security dashboard that she originally created in Stat 108...
We are pleased to share that Associate Professor Tracy Ke received a 2024 COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Emerging Leader Award for her contributions to statistical text analysis, statistical methods for complex network data, sparse inference and rare/weak signals, and for her service to the scientific community. This award is given annually to a maximum of eight early career statistical scientists in recognition of their accomplishments and potential for shaping their field and... Read more about Professor Tracy Ke Receives 2024 COPSS Emerging Leader Award
We are pleased to share that Professor Xihong Lin was invited to attend a roundtable discussion on March 2nd at the White House. Hosted by the White House and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the meeting included the following attendees: leaders from the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF), Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Deputy Assistant...
The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the publication of our annual newsletter, "Stats News Winter 2023-2024." The purpose of this newsletter is to help alums and current students, postdocs, and faculty stay connected at Harvard and beyond.
Please take a look at some of the stories in our newsletter, including the following:
With great excitement, the Department of Statistics would like to share that Professor Susan Murphy was selected by the American Statistical Association's Boston Chapter as the recipient of the 2024 Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award. The award was named after Professor Fred Mosteller, one of the founding members of our department. Every year the Boston Chapter presents the Statistician of the Year award to a distinguished statistician who... Read more about Professor Susan Murphy Receives 2024 Mosteller Award
