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Harvard Statistics Newsletter Winter 2023-2024

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The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the publication of our annual newsletter, " Stats News Winter 2023-2024." The purpose of this newsletter is to help alums and current students, postdocs, and faculty stay connected at Harvard and beyond...

Herman Chernoff Obituary

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The Harvard Department of Statistics is saddened to share that Professor Emeritus Herman Chernoff, age 103, of Boston, MA, passed away peacefully on July 6, 2026. Professor Chernoff will be deeply missed by his former colleagues, mentees, friends, and...

Souhardya Sengupta Wins 2024 Dempster Prize

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The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Souhardya Sengupta, a PhD student entering his 3 rd year, on winning the 2024 Dempster Award for his exceptional paper titled "Leveraging Sparsity in the Gaussian Linear Model for Improved Inference"...

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The Statistics Department Faculty members are listed here. Other department members include, Researchers , Graduate Students, and Staff.

Yufan Li and Tianle Liu Win 2025 Dempster Prize

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The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Yufan Li and Tianle Liu, '25 PhD graduates, on winning the 2025 Dempster Award. Yufan received the award for his paper on " Spectrum-aware Debiasing: a Modern Inference Framework with Applications to...

Herman Chernoff's Centennial Celebration

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This research symposium will highlight Emeritus Professor Chernoff's teaching and research legacy by featuring panel discussions on how Professor Chernoff inspired researchers personally and professionally and technical presentations on research related...

Alumna Nan M. Laird Receives NESS Chernoff Award

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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...

Jun S. Liu

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Research Interests:

  • Statistical missing data problems,
  • Imputation methodology,
  • Gibbs sampling,
  • Markov structure,
  • Image reconstruction,
  • Bayesian methodology

Nathan Cheng and Xiaodong Yang Receive 2026 Dempster Award

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The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Nathan Cheng and Xiaodong Yang, PhD students in their 4th year, on winning the 2026 Department of Statistics Dempster Award! Nathan received the award for his paper on "Chiseling: Powerful and Valid...

Announcing the Carl N. Morris Visiting Day Presentation Prize

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The Department of Statistics is thrilled to announce the new Carl N. Morris Visiting Day Presentation Prize, established in memory of Professor Emeritus Carl N. Morris (1939–2023), a beloved member of the department for more than two decades. Professor...

Donald B. Rubin

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Research Interests

  • Causal inference in experiments and observational studies.
  • Inference in sample surveys with nonresponse and in missing data problems.
  • Application of Bayesian and empirical Bayesian techniques.
  • Developing and applying statistical models to...