#  Concentrators James Celi Kitch, Kavya Mehul Shah, and Jason Zhou Receive Awards 

 





June 13, 2023

 

 

 The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate our two concentrator recipients of the[ Sophia Freund Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#F), Kavya Mehul Shah ('23 AB) and Jason Zhou ('23 AB/AM), and our two concentrators who have been awarded the[ Thomas T. Hoopes Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/prize-descriptions#H), Jason Zhou and James Celi Kitch ('23 AB).

 The Sophia Freund Prize was established in 1964 to be awarded annually to the highest ranking undergraduate as determined at the final degree meeting of the Faculty.

 The Hoopes Prize is an annual award given to undergraduates selected for their outstanding scholarly work and theses. This year, Jason Zhou received the award for his project entitled, “Data Quality Always Matters: An Analysis of Data Quality for Finite Population Z-Estimator," supervised and nominated by Professor Xiao-Li Meng, and James Celi Kitch won the award for his project entitled, “Taming the Beast of Phylogenetic Trees: Learning Evolutionary Patterns of Mutation with Volume-Regularized NMF,” supervised and nominated by Professor Giovanni Parmigiani and Professor Shamil R. Sunyaev.

   ![James Kitch Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/statistics-2/files/kitch-james-resized.jpg?itok=fkzKAvN0) 

 

   ![Kavya Shah Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/statistics-2/files/shah-kavya.jpg?itok=yuxOH2iF) 

 

   ![Jason Zhou Picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum10116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/statistics-2/files/zhou-jason-resized.jpg?itok=Fm2wxiCi) 

 



 

 

 



 

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