Awards

Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Sia Gbondo-Tugbawa ’26, who is among the students who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants to support 2025-2026 academic year projects.

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Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Sia Gbondo-Tugbawa ’26, who is among the students who have been awarded UConn IDEA Grants to support 2025-2026 academic year projects. For more details, please click this link: https://ugradresearch.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/323/2025/04/UConn-IDEA-Grant-25th-Cohort-Press-Release.pdf

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

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Sydney Louit, ’ PhD student 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 […]

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

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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

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  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!