Harvard Statistics Congratulates 2024 Taliesin Prize and 7 Hoopes Winners
With commencement and award season upon us, we are pleased to announce Harvard prizes that our concentrators have received this year, including our seven 2024 Hoopes Prize winners and one Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning.
We celebrate the accomplishments of all our seniors, including 36 who took on the challenging feat of writing a thesis. Supported by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes (class of 1919), the Hoopes fund provides an award to students with outstanding theses and scholarly work. The following seven statistics concentrators and/or statistics concurrent masters students were recognized with a Hoopes Prize:
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Lauren Chen for her submission entitled “The Graphex Model for Multilayer Networks”—supervised and nominated by Professor Subhabrata Sen
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Beverly Fu for her submission entitled “A Study of the Mutational Signatures of Structural Variation in Human Cancer”—supervised and nominated by Professor Peter Park
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Andrew Garber for his submission entitled “Average Ranks in Manipulable School Matching”— supervised and nominated by Professor Yannai A. Gonczarowski and Professor Morgane Austern
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Kevin Luo for his submission entitled “High-Dimensional Linear Interpolation for Structured Data”— supervised and nominated by Professor Pragya Sur
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Edis Memis for his submission entitled “Beyond Empirical Averages: Berry-Esseen Bounds in Transport Distances”—supervised and nominated by Professor Morgane Austern
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Ivan Specht for his submission entitled “Reconstructing Viral Epidemics: A Random Tree Approach”— supervised and nominated by Professor Michael Mitzenmacher and Dr. Pardis Sabeti
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Erik Zou for his submission entitled “Paint and Pixel: Reimagining Impressionist Color in Monet’s Rouen Cathedral Series through Statistics”—supervised and nominated by Professor Jeffrey Hamburger and Dr. Alexander Young
In addition, the Taliesin Prize, started in 2020 in the Division of Arts & Humanities, is awarded to three seniors who "best exhibit a spirit of intellectual adventure in their curricular paths as Harvard undergraduates." The Department would like to congratulate Erik Zou, a History of Art & Architecture and Statistics Concentrator, on receiving the 2024 Taliesin Prize for his creativity, curiosity, and exploration of the Harvard curriculum!
