Awards

Many of the awards and honors received by Statistics Department faculty and students are represented here.

Sponsored by the Texas A&M Department of Statistics, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation recognizes outstanding careers in the discipline and profession of statistics. Professor Hastie is cited "for pioneering,…

The Walter J. Gores Awards are the university's highest teaching honor. Sun was honored "for innovative teaching that makes statistics fun, even for the most skeptical of students." Sun, a fourth-year PhD candidate, also was commended "…

A paper written by Professor Candès with colleagues Thomas Strohmer, Yonina  Eldar, and Candès’ graduate student Vladislav Voroninski has been selected as one of three papers to receive the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize. The prize is…

The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award is presented each year by the Statistical Society of Canada to the author(s) of an article published in the Journal, in recognition of the outstanding quality of the paper’s methodological innovation and…

The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada has announced that Professor Art Own will inaugurate the David Sprott Distinguished Lecture Series on Wednesday, May 14. David Sprott was the first Chair…