Winter 2024 Consulting Cup Winners
February 28, 2024
A hearty congratulations to the winners of our Winter 2024 Consulting Cup, the Friday Team:
- John Hood
- David Chen
- Theodora Ko
- Annie Xie
The Second Annual Takintayo Akinbiyi Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Statistics
October 2, 2023
Congratulations to Qiaosen Wang, recipient of the Second Annual Takintayo Akinbiyi Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Statistics.
View a movie from the ceremony on Panopto: https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7bd4d1b2-ad7c-4cb8-baec-b08f01187572.
The Spring Consulting and Senior Consultant Award Winners
May 17, 2023
Congratulations to the following students for their outstanding participation and contribution to the Consulting Program.
- The winner of the Spring 2022-23 Consulting Award: Soumyabrata Kundu.
- The winners of the Spring 2022-23 Senior Consultant Award: Melissa Adrian, Soham Bonnerjee, Rohan Hore, and Sean O'Hagan
The Spring Consulting Cup Winners
May 17, 2023
Congratulations to our Spring 2023 Consulting Cup winners, The Friday Team: Or Goldreich, Paarth Sharma, Alexander Vattakkattu, Yuguan Wang, and Annie Xie
The Winter Consulting Cup Award
March 1, 2023
The Consulting Cup Team Award presentation was held at noon today, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Congratulations to Sean O'Hagan, Kiho Park, and Matthew Yang for outstanding work and participation throughout the quarter, with honorable mention to Misha Sohan and Zihao Wang.
Solution to Puzzle 42!
February 27, 2023
Congratulations to Soham Bonnerjee, PhD candidate, Department of Statistics, for solving both parts of Puzzle 42, one each in probability and statistics. Read the article from the IMS Bulletin, Volume 52, Issue 2.
Congratulations to Joelle Mbatchou!
June 29, 2022
Statistics alumnus Joelle Mbatchou, PhD'19, and Manager of Statistical Genetics at Regeneron Genetics Center, has been selected as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35.
Please join us in congratulating, Joelle!
2022-23 Harper Dissertation
June 7, 2022
Statistics PhD Lijia Zhou has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2022-23. The University-side competition awards financial support toward the completion of the candidate’s dissertation.
Congratulations, Lijia!
Our Spring 2022 Consulting and Senior Consultant Award Winners
May 26, 2022
Congratulations to the following students for their outstanding participation and contribution to the Consulting Program.
The winners of the Spring 2022 Consulting Award are:
- Yuhan Liu
- Bill Katsianos
- Subhodh Kotekal
The winners of the Spring 2022 Senior Consultant Award are:
- Rohan Hore
- Soumyabrata Kundu
- Wei Kuang
The Spring 2022 Consulting Cup Award
May 26, 2022
Congratulations to the Spring 2022 Consulting Cup winners — The Thursday Team!
Team Members: Yuwei Cheng, Kulunu Dharmakeerthi, Omar Ghattas, Lin Gui Xiaoyu Lei, and Cheuk To Tsui
Thank you to all the Spring quarter consultants for your excellent work!
- Monday Team: Irina Cristali, Ziming Gan, Wei Kuang, Kiho Park, Zihao Wang, Xiaohan Zhu
- Tuesday Team: Melissa Adrian, Yu Gui, Wentao Hu, Sounak Paul, Misha Sohan, Yuguan Wang
- Wednesday Team: Aabesh Bhattacharyya, Soham Bonnerjee, Yuhan Liu, Theo Man, Sean O'Hagan, Annie Xie
- Thursday Team: Yuwei Cheng, Kulunu Dharmakeerthi, Omar Ghattas, Lin Gui, Xiaoyu Lei, Cheuk To Tsui
- Friday Team: Alice Duan, Andre Fan, Rohan Hore, Harrison Jia, Subhodh Kotekal, Soumyabrata Kuntu
The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup Award
March 9, 2022
Congratulations to The Winter 2022 Consulting Cup winner—The Wednesday Team!
Team Members: Tanmay Gupta, Bill Katsianos, Annie Xie, Ke Xu, and Jinwen Yang
Thank you to all the Winter quarter consultants for your excellent work!
- Monday Morning Team:
Lin Gui, Seung Chul Lee, Sounak Paul, Xiaomeng Wang, Xiaohan Zhu
Monday Afternoon Team:
Sean O'Hagan, Cheng Peng, Huy Tran, Sam Tyler, Yuepeng Yang - Tuesday Morning Team:
Yuwei Cheng, Irina Cristali, Yu Gui, Misha Sohan, Zhengyan Xu
Tuesday Afternoon Team:
YoonHaeng Hur, Kiho Park, Devan Shan, Jake Singleton - Thursday Team:
Joonsuk Kang, Soumyabrata Kundu, Ethan Lewis, Yuhan Liu - Friday Team 1:
Kulunu Dharmakeerthi, Omar Ghattas, Wentao Hu, Peter Laurin, Cheuk To Tsui
Friday Team 2:
Ziming Gan, Wei Kuang, Jingyang Lyu, Yuguan Wang
The Fall 2021 Consulting Cup Award
December 2, 2021
Congratulations to The Fall 2021 Consulting Cup winner — The Thursday Team!
Team members: Melissa Adrian, Subhodh Kotekal, Kentaro Nakamura, Huanqing Wang, and Yuepeng Yang.
Thank you to all Fall quarter consultants for your excellent work!
- Monday Team:
Rohan Hore, Michelle Li, Madhuri Raman, Zihao Wang, Johnson Zhang - Tuesday Team:
Bill Katsianos, Yang Liu, Jimmy Melican, Zixuan Wu, Jinwen Yang - Wednesday Team:
Xingyue Fan, Joonsuk Kang, Matt Ludwig, Nicholas Park, Fengwei Zhang - Friday Team:
Andrew Fan, Soham Bonnerjee, Aabesh Bhattacharyya, Rebecca Scurlock, Ruiting Tong
2021-2022 DDRIG Awardee
Jongyoon Baik, MS candidate in Statistics, and PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Chicago, has been awarded a 2021-2022 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) by the American Political Science Association for her dissertation research.
Her research interests include state-society relations under authoritarianism, media control, censorship, popular protest, and grassroot movements.
Congratulations, Jongyoon!
2021-22 Harper Dissertation Fellowship
Statistics PhD Pinhan Chen has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-22. The University-wide competition awards financial support toward the completion of the candidate’s dissertation.
2021 Consulting Award Winner
Please join us in congratulating Micól Tresoldi, winner of our Consulting Award for 2020-2021. Thank you for your contributions!
2021 David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
The Department's David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics is given yearly to graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. The award includes a supplement to the student’s summer support. This year, the award is given to Micol Tresoldi for her research on sparsity in ANOVA and F-ratios, and for her outstanding contributions to the consulting program over the years.
2021 Yi Liu Awarded SBSS Student Paper Award
PhD candidate Yi Liu has been awarded the prestigious SBSS Student Paper Award for his paper, “Variable Selection via Thompson Sampling” (coauthored together with his advisor, Veronika Rockova).
This prize is awarded annually by the Bayesian Section of the American Statistical Association to a very small group of promising students.
Yi will be presenting this work at JSM 2021. The paper is currently under revision for JASA Theory and Methods.
2020 PSD Fellowship Challenge
Congratulations to Pinhan Chen, Lizhen Nie, Enakshi Saha (PhD'20), Hai Tran-Bach, and Jiacheng Wang who are among the twenty PhD students selected as 2020–21 Radix Trading Fellows.
2020 Consulting Award Winner
Our Consulting Award winner for 2019-2020 is PhD candidate, Dongyue Xie. Congratulations!
2020 David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
The Department's David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics is given yearly to graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. The award includes a supplement to the student's summer support. This year, the award is given to PhD candidate, Abby Stevens, for her recent research on the epidemiology of coronavirus.
Congratulations to Abby!
2020 Harper Dissertation Fellowship
Statistics PhD candidate Sen Na has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2020-21. The University-wide competition awards financial support toward the completion of the candidate's dissertation.
Congratulations Sen!
2019 Consulting Award Winner
The Department's annual Consulting Award was presented to PhD candidate Keshav Vemuri on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at 1:00 pm in Jones 111.
Congratulations, Keshav!
2019 David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
The Department's David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics is given yearly to graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. The award includes a supplement to the student's summer support. This year, the award was given to PhD candidate, Yuxin Zou, for her research on genetic fine mapping and on multivariate association analysis with no natural baseline. This award was established thanks to a generous donation by Statistics alumnus David Frohardt-Lane, SM'00.
2019 Harper Dissertation Fellowship
Petr Panov, PhD'20 has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2019-20. The University-wide competition awards financial support toward the completion of the candidate's dissertation. Congratulations, Petr!
2019 Physical Sciences Endowed Fellowship Award
Haoyang Liu, PhD'20 has received a Physical Sciences Endowed Fellowship award for his work within our doctoral program. Congratulations, Haoyang!
2018 Elaine K. Bernstein Women in Science Award
PhD candidate Wanrong Zhu is the recipient of the Elaine K. Bernstein Women in Science Award. The award provides additional assistance for student research and travel. Congratulations, Wanrong!
2018 Consulting Award Winner
The Department's annual Consulting Award was presented to Enakshi Saha, PhD'21, on Friday, June 1, 2018, at 1:00 pm in Jones 304. Congratulations, Enakshi!
2018 Harper Dissertation Fellowship
Christopher McKennan PhD'19 has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2018-19. The University-wide competition awards financial support toward the completion of the candidate's dissertation.
2018 David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
The Department's David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics is given yearly to graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. The award includes a supplement to the student's summer support. This year, the award was given to Lei Sun, PhD'20 for his work in genomics and for his research at the intersection of arts, culture and science, and to Tae Hyun Kim, PhD'20 for her research on copy number variation and on local ancestry impact on patterns of gene expression. This award was established thanks to a generous donation by Statistics alumnus David Frohardt-Lane, SM'00.
2017 Graduate Collaboration Grant
Congratulations to Kushal Dey, PhD'18 and Lei Sun, PhD'20 who, along with Lauren M. Jackson (PhD candidate in English), have been selected to receive a Graduate Collaboration Grant for their project "Social Movement and Media Narrative: Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis of Socio-political News Coverage." Faculty advisors on this project are Profs. Michael Dawson (Political Science) and Peter McCullagh (Statistics). This grant is part of the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative.
2017 ASA Student Paper Award
Xiang Zhu's, PhD'17 work on enrichment analysis of genome-wide association summary statistics has won an ASA student paper award. Xiang is advised by Prof. Matthew Stephens and will present this paper at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meeting in Baltimore. This work is supported by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The manuscript is available at https://doi.org/10.1101/160770.
2017 Consulting Award Winner
The Department's annual Consulting Award was presented to Lei Sun, PhD'20 on Friday, June 2, 2017, at 1:00 pm in Jones 111. Congratulations, Lei!
2017 Harper Dissertation Fellowship
Congratulations to Vivak Patel, PhD'18 for being awarded the Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2017-2018
2017 David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
The David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics is given annually to two graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. This year's award was given to Christopher McKennan, PhD'19 for his work on analysis of asthma genetics and genomics datasets and to Wanting Xu, PhD'17 for her work on statistical analysis of high-frequency voltage measurements from an electrical circuit exhibiting chaotic behavior. This award was established thanks to a generous donation by Statistics alumnus, David Frohardt-Lane, SM'00.
2016 Consulting Award Winner
The Department's annual Consulting Award was presented to Yuefeng Han, PhD'19 on Friday, June 3, 2016, at 11:30 am in Jones 111. Congratulations, Yuefeng!
2016 David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
The David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics is given annually to two graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. Congratulations to Marc Goessling, PhD'16 and Kushal Dey, PhD'18 as this year's awardees for their work in image analysis and statistical genetics, respectively. This award was established thanks to a generous donation by Statistics alumnus, David Frohardt-Lane, SM'00.
2016 ASA Student Paper Award
Andrew Poppick's (PhD'16) work on evolving climate variability has won an ASA student paper award. Andrew is co-advised by Profs. Michael Stein (Statistics) and Liz Moyer (Geophysical Sciences) and will present his paper at the 2016 Joint Statistical Meeting in Chicago. Andrew's research is supported by U. Chicago's Center for Robust Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP) and by STATMOS, the Research Network for Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
2015 Harper Dissertation Fellowship
We are pleased to congratulate Yuancheng Zhu, PhD'16 for being awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2015–16. The Fellowship provides top students with additional support while they are finishing their dissertations.
2015 Consulting Award Winner
The Department's annual Consulting Project Award was given to Ang Li, PhD'17 on Monday, June 6, 2015, at 12:50 pm in E110. Congratulations, Ang!
2015 David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
The Department is happy to announce the newly established David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics, thanks to a generous donation by Statistics alumnus David Frohardt-Lane, SM'00. This annual award will be given to two graduate students working on applications of statistics in scientific domains. Congratulations to Andrew Poppick, PhD'16 and Xiang Zhu, PhD'17 as the first awardees for their work in statistical climate models and statistical genetics, respectively.
2014 UChicago Data Visualization Challenge
Congratulations to MS graduate Nelson Auner, SM'14 for being one of the winners of the first annual UChicago Data Visualization Challenge. His submission of "Making Indonesia" garnered a $500 Amazon gift certificate in recognition of his work.
2014 Consulting Award Winner
The Department's annual Consulting Project Award was given to Subhajit Goswami, PhD'17 on Monday, June 2, 2014, at 1:00 pm in E110. Congratulations, Subhajit!
2013-14 Plotnick Fellowship
Congratulations to Dinah Shender, PhD'15 for being awarded a 2013–14 Plotnick Fellowship in recognition of academic excellence and success in the Statistics PhD program. Board of Trustee Harvey Plotnick sponsors this fellowship program for the Physical Sciences Division to encourage and recognize the Division's leading 4th-year doctoral students.
2013 Consulting Award Winner
The Department's annual Consulting Award was given to Somak Dutta, PhD'15 on Friday, June 7, at 12:45 pm in E110. Congratulations, Somak!
2013 Environmental Statistics Student Paper Competition
Stefano Castruccio, PhD'13 received first-place recognition in the ASA-sponsored 2012 Environmental Statistics Student Paper Competition for the paper "Global Space-Time Models for Climate Ensembles," co-authored with Prof. Mike Stein.
2012 Harper Dissertation Fellowship
We are pleased to congratulate Matthew Reimherr, PhD'13 for being awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2012–13. The Fellowship provides top students with additional support while they are finishing their dissertations.
2012 Consulting Award Winner
The Department's annual Consulting Project Award was given to Michael Horrell, PhD'15 on Friday, June 1, at 12:45 pm in E110.
2011 Consulting Award Winner
Harry Crane, PhD'12 and Rina Foygel, PhD'12 are joint winners of the Department's annual Consulting Project Award. Congratulations!
2011 Harper Dissertation Fellowship
We are pleased to congratulate Rina Foygel, PhD'12 for being awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2011–12. The Fellowship provides top students with additional support while they are finishing their dissertations.
2010 Consulting Award Winner
We have two Consulting Project Award Winners for 2010, and they are Myoungji Lee, PhD'12 and Xiaohui Chang, PhD'12. Congratulations and thanks for all your hard work.
2010 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Matthew Reimherr, PhD'13 winner of the "best paper" award for 2010 with co-authors Lajos Horvath and Piotr Kokoszka, from the Statistical Society of Canada for their paper entitled, "Two sample inference in functional linear models," published in the Canadian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 37, No. 4, 2009, pp. 571–591.