PhD student Yelie Yuan’s R package wdnet, co-authored with Prof. Tiandong Wang, Prof. Jun Yan, and Prof. Panpan Zhang, has received an honorable mention for the 2023 John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award. The package provides functions for analyzing weighted, directed networks, all of which are based on recent research and are not available in other packages. […]
Awards
Nidhi Nair ’23 (CLAS) named UConn’s first Schwarzman Scholar
Nair is one of 151 Schwarzman scholars who will study at the Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2022-23 in pursuit of a one-year master’s degree. Nearly 3,000 students applied to the program.
Dipak Dey wins IISA Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022
The Lifetime Achievement Award (LAA) recognizes distinguished members of the association who represent ‘models of excellence’ to the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) members.
Sandra Milena Hurtado Rúa ’11 Ph.D. received Fulbright Scholarship
Sandra Milena Hurtado Rúa ’11 Ph.D. named Fulbright Scholar. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program and is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Yan Zhuang, ’18 Ph.D. elected to membership in the ISI
Yan Zhuang, ’18 Ph.D. has been elected to membership in the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
Wenlin Yuan ’22 Ph.D. received Statistics in Biosciences Best Paper Award
“Flexible Conditional Borrowing Approaches for Leveraging Historical Data in the Bayesian Design of Superiority Trials”, co-authored by Wenlin Yuan, John Zhong, and Ming-Hui Chen, is selected to receive one of the 2023 Statistics in Biosciences Best Paper Awards.
Ofer Harel elected to Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Ofer Harel has been elected to the Connecticut Academy of the Arts and Sciences (CAAS), the third-oldest learned society in the United States.
Garrett Frady Recognized by ISBA for Poster Presentation
Ph.D. student Garrett Frady won 3rd place in the poster presentations at the 2022 International Society for Bayesian Analysis conference.
Jun Yan, Kun Chen and Elizabeth Schifano Received an NSF Grant
Jun Yan, Kun Chen, Elizabeth Schifano, Laura J. Burton and Robert A. Huggins have been awarded an NSF grant (DMS-2219336). Start date: September 1, 2022. End date: August 31, 2025.
Kun Chen and Colleague Received an NSF Grant
Kun Chen , Jing Zhao from UConn Department of Chemistry have been awarded an NSF grant (CHE-2203854). Start date: September 1, 2022. End date: August 31, 2025.