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Congratulations to Professor Susan A. Murphy

The Statistics Department is delighted to report that Professor Susan A. Murphy is to be given the 2018 R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship. She will deliver the Fisher Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings this coming summer. Professor Murphy joined...
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Harvard' Master of Science (SM) Degree in Data Science

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of a new Master of Science (SM) degree in Data Science. The new degree, under the joint academic leadership of the Computer Science and Statistics faculties and administered...
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Professor Edoardo Airoldi gives Medallion Lecture at JSM

Professor Edoardo Airoldi gave his 2017 Medallion Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Baltimore on “Design and Analysis of Randomized Experiments on Networks.” Each year the Institute of Mathematical Statistics selects eight Medallion lecturers...
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Professor Tracy Ke joins Harvard

The Faculty of the Department of Statistics is delighted to report that Professor Tracy Ke will be joining us as an Assistant Professor of Statistics from 1 July 2018. Tracy is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Tracy works on...
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Tracking Dengue using Internet Searches

Samuel Kou is one of the co-authors of "Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue” which appeared in PLOS Computational Biology in 2017. Media coverage includes CNN, PLOS press release at Science Daily and Eurekalert, and Deutsches Arzteblatt...
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F.N David Award for Professor Xihong Lin

Congratulations to Professor Xihong Lin, who has been awarded the 2017 Florence N. David Award by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Society of Canada...

Sacks Award to Professor Jun Liu

The 2017 “Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research” has been given to Professor Jun Liu for "For groundbreaking research contributions at the interface of statistics and biology, including algorithms for protein sequence analysis, DNA sequence...
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Boston ASA's Outstanding Teaching award to Professor Blitzstein

The Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association (BCASA) has announced: The BCASA Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching of Statistics is to be given to Professor Joe Blitzstein, Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Harvard...
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Professor Susan Murphy joins Harvard Statistics

We are delighted that Professor Susan Murphy will join the Harvard Statistics Department on 1st September 2017 as a Professor of Statistics and the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Susan is currently H.E. Robbins...
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