The Department of Statistics is proud to share that Professor Xihong Lin has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her continuing achievements in original research.  Professor Lin's research focuses on developing and applying scalable statistical and machine learning methods for big genetics and health data.  Professor Lin was among 120 other members... Read more about Professor Xihong Lin is Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The Department has awarded the 2023 Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize to Rachel Li for her superb coursework in the concentration and for an outstanding thesis. Congratulations on your achievement, Rachel!

The Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize (originally named the Department of Statistics Undergraduate Prize) was founded in 2020.  It is given annually to the graduating senior concentrator who has the best overall performance (as indicated by coursework results and thesis) and who has contributed...

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The Department would like to congratulate Professor of the Practice Joseph Blitzstein on his election to a divisional seat for Science and Engineering on the FAS Faculty Council for a term of three years, starting in the fall of 2023. Professor Blitzstein will be part of an 18-member cohort of faculty across the divisions of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences that advises the Dean, the chair of the council.

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Subhabrata Sen on receiving the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for his project on “Statistical Inference in High Dimensions using Variational Approximations.”  According to ...

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