Awards

Sydney Louit, ’24 PhD has been selected as a winner of the ASA sponsored SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition.

Sydney Louit, ’24 PhD has been selected as a winner of the ASA sponsored SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition. Congratulations! Sydney Louit’s paper “CALF-SBM: A Covariate-Assisted Latent Factor Stochastic Block Model” has been selected as a winner of the SPES-Q&P Student Paper Competition. Award winners are invited to present their research in a special topic-contributed session at JSM 2025 in […]

Prof. Neil Spencer awarded Makuch Faculty Fund Award in Mathematical Sciences

We are delighted to announce that Neil Spencer, Assistant Professor in Statistics, has been named the new Makuch Faculty Fellow (January 2025-December 2026). This fellowship was instituted through a generous donation from Robert Makuch (’72 CLAS). Neil Spencer, PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in robust Bayesian inference, network science, […]

Prof. Dipak Dey received Lifetime Achievement Award from The Indian Bayesian Society and the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference

  Prof. Dipak Dey received Lifetime Achievement Award from The Indian Bayesian Society and the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Recent Developments in the Techniques of Bayesian Paradigm, presented on January 6, 2025.   Congratulations!

Sudipto Banerjee ’2000 Ph.D. has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn.

Sudipto Banerjee ’2000 Ph.D. has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn. Congratulations! Dr. Banerjee is Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He will […]

Tumulesh K. S. Solanky ’1990 Ph.D. has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn.

Tumulesh K. S. Solanky ’1990 Ph.D. has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn. Congratulations! Dr. Solanky  is Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department at the University of New Orleans. He will visit our department in Fall 2024.