Awards

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

Rob Tibshirani is now among the distinguished scientists elected to the Royal Society for their exceptional contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge. In fulfillment of its fundamental purpose, “to use science for the benefit of…

Lester Mackey, Jessica Hwang, and Paulo Orenstein, in joint work with AER climatologist Judah Cohen and MIT professor Ernest Fraenkel, have completed a year-long real-time forecasting competition to predict temperature and precipitation in the…

The International Statistical Institute in partnership with ASA, IBS, IMS, and RSS in the International Prize in Statistics Foundation have selected Efron as the second winner of this distinction–the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the field of…

Reporting in live from Rio de Janeiro where the ceremony was taking place at ICM 2018, Emmanuel Candès has shared the news that David Donoho is the recipient of the 2018 Gauss Prize, the major prize in applied mathematics awarded jointly by the…

Members of the Faculty of Business and Economics voted unanimously to confer their doctorate for 2018, acknowledging Trevor's outstanding contribution to statistics, machine learning, and data mining, and his lifelong dedication to science and…

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