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Statistics Affiliate Faculty Jose Zubizarreta is a 2022 American Statistical Association Fellow

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The Statistics Department is thrilled to share the news that Jose Zubizarreta, Affiliate Faculty of Statistics and Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy at Harvard Medical School, was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for...

2020 and 2021 Commencement Celebration on May 29th

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We welcomed back our 2020 and 2021 PhD, Master's, and concentrator graduates to celebrate their accomplishments with the Statistics Department in person. It felt very fitting to host our alums in our Science Center, where our students spent much of their...

Harvard Department of Statistics Seeks Tenure-Track Faculty

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The Department of Statistics seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Statistics. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We seek...

Administrative Coordinator Madeleine Straubel is honored with a 2017 FAS Dean's Distinction Award

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Congratulations go to Madeleine Straubel for her outstanding service as Administrative Coordinator; handling faculty support, office management, department events, and most recently department website with competence, efficiency, meticulous attention to...

Professor Subhabrata Sen Receives NSF Career Award

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The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Subhabrata Sen on receiving the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for his project on “Statistical Inference in High...

PhD Program

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A unique aspect of our Ph.D. program is our integrated and balanced training, covering research, teaching, and career development. The department encourages research in both theoretical and applied statistics. Faculty members of the department have been...

Pragya Sur starts as Assistant Professor

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Pragya Sur started her Assistant Professorship in Statistics on 1 July 2020. She just completed a post-doc with Professor Cynthia Dwork, before that she did her Ph.D. at the Department of Statistics, Stanford University. Harvard’s Department of Statistics...

Professor Morgane Austern Receives NSF CAREER Award

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The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Morgane Austern on receiving the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for her project on “ Distributional Approximation for...

Professor Pragya Sur Receives NSF CAREER Award

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The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Pragya Sur on receiving the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for her project on “ High-dimensional Learning and...

2026 Harvard Statistics Commencement Highlights

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On Thursday, May 28, the Statistics Department community gathered in the Maxwell Dworkin Second-Floor Lounge to honor the exceptional achievements of our newest alumni. The room was filled with energy, pride, and celebration as graduates, alumni, faculty...

New colleague: Luke Miratrix

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The Department welcomes Luke Miratrix as a Departmental affiliate faculty. Luke has recently taken up an Assistant Professorship at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard. He has wide interests in statistical methodology with a particular focus on...

Retreat

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Harvard Statistics Department Retreat9:30 AM-5:00 PM. Open to anyone in the Harvard Statistics community, including (but not limited to) students of all levels, post-docs, and faculty.This full-day event---an annual tradition---will feature student and...