2019
Consulting Award winner
June 5, 2019
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The Department's annual Consulting Award was presented to Ph.D. candidate Keshav Vemuri on Tuesday, June 4, 2019, at 1:00 pm in Jones 111.
David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics
June 4, 2019
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PhD candidate, Yuxin Zou, awarded the David Wallace Award for Applied Statistics.
Stephen M. Stigler Awarded the Arthur L. Kelly Prize
June 4, 2019
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Prof. Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, has been awarded the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for exceptional service in the Physical Sciences Division.
Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
June 3, 2019
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We are pleased to congratulate Prof. Steven Lalley for receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring this year.
Congratulations to our Harper Fellow!
May 24, 2019
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Statistics PhD Peter Panov has been awarded the prestigious Harper Dissertation Fellowship for 2019-20. The University-side competition awards financial support toward the completion of the candidate’s dissertation.
Elaine K. Bernstein Women in Science Award
April 23, 2019
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PhD student Wanrong Zhu is the recipient of the Elaine K. Bernstein Women in Science Award. The award provides additional assistance for student research and travel.
Per Mykland Chosen as Guggenheim Fellow
April 15, 2019
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Per A. Mykland, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor in Statistics and Finance, has been named a recipient of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Student Fellowship Award
March 21, 2019
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PhD student Haoyang Liu has received a Physical Sciences Endowed Fellowship award for his work within our doctoral program.
Rebecca Willett—IEEE Award for Best Paper
January 30, 2019
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Prof. Rebecca Willett and co-author Eric C. Hall received the "2018 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for their article "Online Convex Optimization in Dynamic Environments." Congratulations, Becca, on recognition of your ongoing research!
Gregory Lawler awarded Wolf Prize
January 23, 2019
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Prof. Gregory Lawler is a 2019 recipient of the highly prestigious Wolf Prize in mathematics for pioneering research in the use of probability.
Award-winning faculty
January 15, 2019
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Prof. Lek-Heng Lim has been awarded the prestigious Hans Schneider Prize for 2019 by the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS). The Society acknowledges the best scholarship in this area of mathematical research triennially.
2018
Congratulate our student women in science
December 20, 2018
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