Awards

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

At the School of Earth Sciences Class of 2013 diploma ceremony, Rajaratnam, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science as well as in the Department of Statistics, received the annual Earth Sciences Excellence in…

The 2013 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, worth US$1 million dollars, is awarded to David L. Donoho "for his profound contributions to modern mathematical statistics and in particular the development of optimal algorithms for…

"The paper of Candès and Recht was selected because of its exposition excellence, the current importance of the topic and the impressive number of citations in three years. It also opens Semidefinite Optimization to a fascinating new field of…

This award is the highest distinction bestowed by the Statistical Society of Canada. It is given annually to a Canadian statistician or probabilist who has made outstanding research contributions to statistical sciences, and is intended to honor…

The National Academy of Sciences elected 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest…