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!
Awards
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.
PhD student Yelie Yuan received an honorable mention for the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award
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. […]
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).