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Professor Joe Blitzstein Fannie Cox Prize featured in Harvard Gazette

February 05, 2020

As announced in December 2019, Professor Joseph Blitzstein has been awarded the Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching. Read the Harvard Gazette article about the award.

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Professor Tracy Ke wins NSF CAREER award

December 19, 2019

Professor Tracy Ke, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Harvard, has been given an NSF CAREER award for her project “Learning Probabilistic Factor Models”. Congratulations Tracy! Details of the project are available at: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch...

Professor Joe Blitzstein awarded Harvard’s “Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching”

December 18, 2019

The Department is delighted to report that Professor Joe Blitzstein has been awarded the “Fannie Cox Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching” by Harvard University’s Division of Sciences. The award “honors outstanding teaching in introductory science...

Undergraduate Statistics Prize Setup

December 12, 2019

The Harvard Faculty of Statistics has setup an Undergraduate Statistics Prize. This prize is awarded annually to the graduating senior concentrator who has the best overall performance (as indicated by coursework results and thesis) and who has...

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Professor Cynthia Dwork joins the Statistics Department

November 26, 2019

The Statistics Department is delighted that Professor Cynthia Dwork will become an affiliate of our Department from 1 January 2020. To statisticians she is probably most well known for her co-invention of differential privacy. She is currently working...

2019 Dempster Prize Winner: Wenshuo Wang

November 08, 2019

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Wenshuo Wang on being named the winner of the 2019 Dempster Prize, for his paper "Metropolized Knockoff Sampling" (abstract below). Wenshuo presented his paper on Friday, November 15th. More...

Harvard Data Science videos

October 28, 2019

You can watch the inaugural symposium of the Harvard Data Science Review at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=harvard+data+science+confe…. The Harvard Data Science Review is edited by Professor Xiao-Li Meng. You can watch the 2019 Annual...

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Professor Pierre Jacob and John O’Leary have JRSSB discussion paper

October 07, 2019

Professor Pierre Jacob, our Ph.D. student John O’Leary, and Professor Yves Atchade of BU will present their JRSSB discussion paper, “Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo methods with couplings” at the Royal Statistical Society on 11 December 2019. The paper...

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Professor Pierre Jacob wins NSF CAREER award

August 08, 2019

Professor Pierre E. Jacob, Associate Professor of Statistics at Harvard, has been given an NSF CAREER award for his project “Unbiased Estimation with Faithful Markov Chains for Scalable Statistical Inference.” Congratulations Pierre! Details of the...

Professor Susan Murphy becomes President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

August 06, 2019

Professor Susan A. Murphy became President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics on 31 st July 2019, taking over from our own Professor Xiao-Li Meng. Other Harvard Faculty members who were, at one time or other, President are W.G. Cochran (1946)...

Harvard Data Science Review Launches

July 03, 2019

Xiao-Li Meng founded and is the first editor of the Harvard Data Science Review, which launched 2 July 2019. It is an open access journal of the Harvard Data Science Initiative published by the MIT Press. See more details at: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu...

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Tenure Track Appointment at Harvard

June 26, 2019

Harvard is advertising Tenure-track Appointments in Science, Mathematics, and/or Statistics. Notice the deadline for applications is quite early: October 7, 2019. https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/9104

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