Student Honors and Awards

Yi Han named as finalist in ASA Nonparametric Student Paper Competition

We are excited to announce that Yi Han, a PhD candidate in our Statistics program, has been named as a finalist of for the ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section Student Paper Competition. The prize is awarded annually by the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Yi Han's paper, entitled "Change Point Detection in Sequential Pairwise Comparison Data with Covariate Information", will be presented along with those of other finalists at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland.

Jue Wang wins ASA Student Paper Award

We are excited to announce that Jue Wang, a PhD candidate in our Statistics program, has been named as the winner of the First Place Award for the Statistics in Imaging Section of the ASA! The prize is awarded annually by the American Statistical Association (ASA).

Jue Wang's winning paper, entitled "Uncertainty Quantification of Object Boundaries Extracted from Spatial Point Pattern Images", will be presented along with those of other winners at the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings in Portland.

Yi Han wins ASA Student Paper Award

We are excited to announce that Yi Han, a PhD candidate in our Statistics program, has been named as a winner of this year's ASA Business and Economics Student Paper Award! The prize is awarded annually by the American Statistical Association (ASA). Yi Han's winning paper,  entitled "Structural Break Detection in Non-stationary Network Vector Autoregression Models", will be presented along with those of other winners at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto.

Cody Carroll honored with 2019-20 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award!

One of our Statistics PhD students, Cody Carroll, was selected to receive a 2019-20 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching award. This award, which is sponsored by Graduate Studies, recognizes excellence in teaching by graduate students on the UC Davis campus. Cody is a 4th year PhD student, and has been a TA for some of our popular courses such as STA 103 and STA 260.

Please join us in congratulating Cody for this well-deserved award!