Awards

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

"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…

The Levi L. Conant Prize is awarded annually to recognize an outstanding expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of the AMS during the preceding five years. The Conant Prize for 2012 is awarded to Persi…

Through its YFA program, DARPA identifies outstanding junior faculty members and exposes them to DoD, its needs and DARPA’s program development process. YFA combines funding, mentoring and networking with industry and DoD early in a recipient’s…