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.

Statistics student wins ICSA 2017 Best Student Paper award

7/31/17: We are excited to announce that Haoran Li, a graduate student in the Statistics PhD program, has been announced as a recipient of the Best Student Paper award in the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Annual Meeting 2017 held during June 2017 in Chicaho IL.

Please join us in congratulating Haoran on this achievement!