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
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
In May 2023, Virginia (Ginnie) Linqian Ma won the inaugural Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize (along with Jason Zhou ’23 AB/AM). This prize is awarded annually to the graduating master’s (AM) student who has the best overall performance in coursework, has demonstrated achievements in Statistics outside of coursework, and has contributed significantly to the department. In following interview (excerpted and edited) from the summer (pardon the publishing delay!), Ginnie speaks with us about her journey as a master’s student through the Stats...
In the May 2023 Commencement Celebration, PhD student Yicong Jiang was awarded the 2022-2023 Dempster Prize for his paper co-authored with Professor Tracy Ke, "Semi-Supervised Community Detection via Structural Similarity Metrics." The Dempster Prize is named in honor of Emeritus Professor Arthur P. Dempster and is given annually to a graduate student in recognition of the student’s research. In the following excerpted and edited interview, Yicong shares with us how the Stats Department helped him adjust to living in a new country, discover his passion for research, and hone...
Statistics concentrator and master’s alum Jason Zhou was awarded the inaugural Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize in May 2023 (along with alum Virginia Ma). This prize is given annually to the graduating concurrent master’s student who has the best overall performance (as indicated by coursework results), has demonstrated achievements in statistics outside of coursework, and has contributed significantly to the department. To celebrate his award and learn about his thesis...
This year, concentrator alum Rachel Li received the May 2023 Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize for her superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis. Originally named the Department of Statistics Undergraduate Prize, the award was founded in 2020 and is given annually to the graduating senior concentrator who has the best overall performance and has contributed significantly to the department. In an interview (edited and excerpted below), Rachel shared her most...
The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Harvard undergraduate Lucy Tu, who is studying sociology, neuroscience, and the history of science, on her American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Fellowship from the American Statistical Association. The purpose of the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship is to support scholars on projects related to increasing public understanding of science and technology.
The Department of Statistics is pleased to share the 2023 NESS (New England Statistics Symposium) awardees include statistics PhD students Tianle Liu and Haoyu Ye. Tianle won a NESS Student Research Award on his paper co-authored with Professor Morgane Austern, "Wasserstein p Bounds in the Central Limit...
The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate our two concentrator recipients of the Sophia Freund Prize, Kavya Mehul Shah ('23 AB) and Jason Zhou ('23 AB/AM), and our two concentrators who have been awarded the Thomas T....
