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Lucas Janson joins Harvard Statistics

March 15, 2017

We are delighted that Lucas Janson will join the Harvard Statistics Department on 1st July 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Statistics. Lucas is currently a PhD student in statistics at Stanford. Lucas describes his work in the following way: “I am...

2017 Guy Medal in Silver for Professor Neil Shephard

February 08, 2017

From the Royal Statistical Society announcement: “The 2017 Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to Neil Shephard for his seminal paper "Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-based models and some of their uses in financial economics" written jointly with Ole Eiler...

Senior Lecturer Mark Glickman Brings New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports to Harvard

September 29, 2017

The New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports is a meeting of statisticians and quantitative analysts connected with sports teams, sports media, and universities to discuss common problems of interest in statistical modeling and analysis of sports...

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Stat 110 smashes enrollment record

September 13, 2017

Joe Blitzstein' Stat 110 course, Introduction to Probability (which is based on his book https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Chapman-Statistical-Sci… joint with Jessica Hwang), hit a new landmark in September 2016. The...

Job Opening: Concentration Advisor and Lecturer

May 22, 2017

The Department of Statistics seeks applications for a Concentration Advisor and Lecturer. To view the full job description and to apply, visit the Harvard University employment site at https://hr.harvard.edu/jobs and reference req 42543BR.

Three Statistics Department 2016-17 Hoopes Prize Winners

June 13, 2017

The Department congratulates our three 2016-17 Hoopes Prize winners: Matthew Theodore DiSorbo, for his submission entitled “Probability!”—nominated by Professor Joseph Blitzstein Victor Jacob Kamenker, for his submission entitled “‘Caring for Him Who...

Professor Stephen Blyth's Generosity Featured

May 10, 2017

PhD Alumnus and Professor of the Practice Stephen Blyth's generosity is featured on the Harvard Alumni page. "Anyone cataloguing the many gifts Stephen Blyth PhD ’92 has made to Harvard over the last decade could use an annotated guide. He has named each...

President-Elect of IMS: Xiao-Li Meng

October 03, 2017

The Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Professor Xiao-Li Meng as their President-Elect (weblink http://bulletin.imstat.org/2017/07/ims-election-results/ ). His term as President starts in July 2018. Professor Meng is Harvard' Whipple V. N...

QS ranks Harvard World' # 1 in Statistics

August 22, 2017

The 2017 QS World University Rankings of “Statistics and Operational Research” groups places Harvard first. See: https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2017 The ranking in Statistics and OR is: Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Cambridge, Oxford...

2016 - 2017 PhD Students' Awards

June 12, 2017

Congratulations to our PhD students for the following honors, fellowships, and awards. Zach Branson: IBM Best Paper Award, New England Statistics Symposium; NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Keith Kin Wai Chan: Distinction in Teaching Award, Fall 2016...

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COPSS Presidents' Award for Professor Tyler VanderWeele

August 03, 2017

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Dr. Marie-Abele Bind wins a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellowship

September 14, 2017

The Harvard Division of Science recently appointed Dr. Marie-Ab̬le Bind as a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow. This Fellowship program is detailed at https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/jhdsfprogram/current-fellows. Marie-Ab̬le Bind will continue to...