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Lucas begins his new appointment on September 1st, with an office in our CoDa suite. After earning BS and MS degrees at Stanford, he attained his PhD under Emmanuel Candès here in 2017.

Juraj Bodík will start the academic year in Sequoia Hall after earning his PhD in mathematical statistics from the University of Lausanne under Valérie Chavez-Demoulin.

We lost Herman Chernoff on July 6th. He was 103. His remarkable contributions to our field included work on large sample theory, experimental design, sequential analysis, presenting statistical data in visual form, and statistical decision-making. His enthusiasm for mentoring was almost equally well known.

We relish this time of year, when the Statistics Department Teaching Assistant Awards are decided! Stanford's dedication to the highest quality in teaching is a leadership role held not only by members of faculty but also by many talented teaching assistants.

The International Congress for Basic Science honors top research with an emphasis on achievements from the past ten years which are of outstanding scholarly value and originality.

The Department of Statistics proudly announces the new cohort of our annual doctoral dissertation awards. Each exemplary distinction is accompanied by a prize of $1,000 and much congratulating at the Graduation Cake Celebration on June 11th.

The 2026 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences is awarded to Emmanuel Candès in recognition of seminal contributions at the intersection of pure and applied mathematics that provide rigorous and useful mathematical frameworks to solve practical problems in information processing.

The NAS has announced this year's selection of 120 members and 25 international members, including nine affiliated with Stanford, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Our heartfelt congratulations are due to Professor Owen on joining this unique society of renowned scholars!

The flagship lab funding initiative of Laude Institute has announced their very first incarnation, Moonshots ONE. Moonshots are seed funding and multi-year labs to proven academic researchers who are using AI to take on species-level challenges.

Stanford Statistics is proud to announce that our alum Weijie Su (PhD, 2016) has received the 2026 Presidents' Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.

Tijana will conclude her most recent appointment as Ram and Vijay Shriram Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow under the guidance of Emmanuel J. Candès and return from the winter holidays as our newest Assistant Professor of Statistics with a joint appointment in Management Science and Engineering (MS&E). She received her Ph.D.

Statistics is proud to announce this new recognition of our fantastic colleague, the highest academic award that Stanford bestows on a faculty member.

Scott Linderman has been interviewed for the Stanford Report, along with Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute colleague Laura Gwilliams, about the new Stanford Center for Neural Data Science.

The COPSS Presidents' Award is an esteemed recognition given annually to a young statistician for outstanding contributions to the field of statistics.

Kai Tan will join the department as a Stein Fellow on August 1st. Kai arrives here from Rutgers University with a Ph.D. in Statistics under Professor Pierre Bellec following on from two M.S. degrees in Statistics from the University of Kentucky Lexington and East China Normal University, Shanghai.

Our Teaching Assistant Awards are an important highlight of the annual calendar, emphasizing Stanford's dedication to teaching excellence not only by faculty but also by very talented graduate students.

With sincere appreciation for all those involved in the nomination and review process, the Department of Statistics is proud to announce the following winners of our annual doctoral dissertation awards.

Amanda has been recognized as one of four recipients of the School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award of Merit. This award began in 1999 to acknowledge the important role staff play in the success of the school and the university as a whole.

The International Statistical Institute is pleased to announce that Trevor Hastie and his student Hui Zou (2006, now full professor at the University of Minnesota) have been awarded the 2025 Founders of Statistics Prize for Contemporary Research Contributions in recognition of their influential paper,

The C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize honors outstanding and influential innovations in the theory and practice of mathematical statistics, international leadership in directing statistical research, and pioneering contributions by a recognized leader in the field.

Andrew Ilyas will join our community of Fellows at the start of the fall quarter. Andrew has completed a lengthy career at MIT — undergraduate, graduate, and PhD — and hopes to teach on topics of deep learning, general machine learning, algorithms, causal inference, optimization, and more.

A new appointment will join our department on July 1 (jointly supported by Stanford Data Science). Brian comes to us from a postdoctoral stint with the Columbia University Department of Statistics as well as a visiting researcher post with the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design in Seattle.

In this feature article from the School of Humanities and Sciences website, our incoming data science program director describes his ambition to help students see how statistics, data science, and probability apply to their everyday lives by infusing introductory courses in these subjects with relatable examples, and even a lot of fun.

Departmental Teaching Assistant Awards underscore Stanford's dedication to the highest quality in teaching, a leadership role held not only by members of faculty but also by many talented teaching assistants.

The Western North American Region (WNAR) of The International Biometric Society (IBS) announced Rob Tibshirani as the recipient of the 2024 WNAR Outstanding Impact Award and Lectureship.

With sincere appreciation for all those involved in the nomination and review process, the Department of Statistics proudly announces the winners of the full group of doctoral dissertation awards this year.

Stefan Wager, Julie Tibshirani, Susan Athey and Erik Sverdup of Stanford Data Science have been awarded the inaugural Stanford Open Source Software Prize for their Generalized Random Forest software.

Among the newly announced members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, which annually honors exceptional leaders, artists, scientists and scholars, Professor Chatterjee has been invited to continue to innovate and help advance the common good

Professor Tibshirani has been chosen for this important recognition of meritorious achievement and scholarship, as well as highly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has announced their 2024 Class of Fellows, distinguished members nominated for their exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community.