Professor Lachos Davila has been selected to receive a Scholarship Facilitation Fund award for AY 2023-2024 for his work entitled Lasso Regularization for High-Dimensional Censored Linear Mixed Models.
Awards
Yao Zheng has been awarded a three-year NSF DMS grant
Yao Zheng has been awarded a 3-year NSF DMS grant (9/2023-8/2026). Project Title: Advances in High-dimensional Time Series Modeling and Its Interface with Deep Learning.
Victor Hugo Lachos Davila has been awarded a UConn Research Excellence Program (REP) funding for AY 2023-24
Victor Hugo Lachos Davila’s Research Excellence Program (REP) proposal has been selected for funding by OVPR.
Yuping Zhang has been awarded a UConn Research Excellence Program (REP) funding for AY 2023-24
Assoc. Prof. Yuping Zhang’s Research Excellence Program (REP) proposal has been selected for funding by OVPR.
Ofer Harel joins The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics
Prof. Ofer Harel has been invited and accepted to be a standing member of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS). CATS convenes workshops, consensus studies, and other activities to connect frontiers in statistics research, education, training, and practice to issues of national and global importance.
Sana Gupta receives UConn IDEA Grant
Undergraduate statistics student Sana Gupta has been awarded the UConn IDEA Grant for the 2023-2024 academic year in recognition of her research project. The grant supports original, creative, innovative, student-designed projects. Sana’s research, titled A Novel Imputation Strategy for Incomplete Compositional Data Analysis, is jointly mentored by Benjamin Stockton and Ofer Harel. Congratulations Sana!
Ming-Hui Chen received the Purdue University College of Science 2023 Distinguished Science Award
The Distinguished Science Awards are given to alumni whose work and achievements have made a significant difference in our communities and lives.
Jun Yan Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering is a private, nonprofit, public-service institution patterned after the National Academy of Sciences.
Yao Zheng has been named the new Makuch Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor Yao Zheng has been named the new Makuch Faculty Fellow (January 2023-December 2024).
Adjunct Prof. Joseph Cappelleri wins HPSS Long-Term Excellence Award
Congratulations to Adjunct Professor Joseph Cappelleri for receiving the Health Policy Statistics Section (HPSS) Long-Term Excellence Award! The award recognizes significant contributions to health care policy and health services research through mentoring and/or service that advance the aims of HPSS.