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 congratulates PhD alumna ('75) Nan Laird, who was awarded the 2023 Chernoff Excellence in Statistics Award by NESS (the New England Statistics Symposium). Nan Laird, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Public Health, Emerita, in Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, was previously awarded the 2021 International...
The Department of Statistics seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Statistics. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2024. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We seek strong candidates in any field of statistics and probability as well as in any interdisciplinary areas where innovative and principled use of statistics and/or probability is of vital importance.
Basic Qualifications: A doctorate or terminal degree in statistics or a related discipline is required by the time the...
The Department of Statistics is thrilled to share that Dr. Tracy Ke has been promoted to be an Associate Professor in the department. Professor Ke's promotion by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in recognition of her outstanding scholarship, teaching, mentoring, citizenship, and contributions to the department. In her research, Professor Ke focuses on high-dimensional statistics, machine...
The Department of Statistics is thrilled to share that Dr. Lucas Janson has been promoted to Associate Professor in the department. Professor Janson's promotion by the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in recognition of his outstanding scholarship, teaching, mentoring, citizenship, and contributions to the department. In his research, Professor Janson focuses on high...
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....
The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Dempster Prize has been awarded to Yicong Jiang 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 their research. We are very grateful to all of our graduate...
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...
