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Awards
Asst. Prof. Yao Zheng has been elected as an elected member of the ISI for 2022
Asst. Prof. Yao Zheng has been elected as an elected member of the ISI for 2022. Congratulations!
Prof. Ofer Harel has been elected a 2022 member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Congratulations to Prof. Ofer Harel for being elected as a 2022 member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering! More information about this news item.
Prof. Nalini Ravishanker has been elected a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Congratulations to Prof. Nalini Ravishanker for being elected as a 2021 AAAS fellow. More information about this news item.
PhD student Jun Jin received an Honorable Mention for his 2022 student paper from the ASA Risk Analysis Section
Congratulations to the 2022 Section on Risk Analysis Student Paper Award Winners! Winners: Jiyang Wen, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Jackson Lautier, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut Jing Zhang, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Honorable Mention: Jun Jin, Department […]
PhD students Austin Menger and Katherine Zavez received a letter of acknowledgment from NESS NextGen leadership
PhD students Austin Menger and Katherine Zavez received a letter of acknowledgment from NESS NextGen leadership for their work in the Diversity, Inclusion, and Outreach subcommittee. Congratulations, Austin and Katherine!
PhD student Jackson Lautier received a student award for the ASA Risk Analysis 2022 Student Paper Award competition
PhD student Jackson Lautier’s paper, “Modeling Time-to-Event Contingent Cash Flows: A Discrete-Time Survival Analysis Approach”, co-authored with Professor Vladimir Pozdnyakov and Professor Jun Yan, has been selected as a winner for the ASA Risk Analysis 2022 Student Paper Award competition. Congratulations!
Dr. Joseph C. Cappelleri, Adjunct Professor, has been awarded the ISPOR Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award
ASA Fellow Joe Cappelleri, head of outcome research statistics, will receive this year’s International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Avedis Donabedian Outcomes Research Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions over the years to patient health outcomes. Congratulations Joe!
PhD students Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Jing Wang and Ganchao Wei receive awards at the 34th NESS Symposium
Congratulations to our PhD students Md Tuhin Sheikh for receiving the IBM Student Paper Award and Jing Wang, Ganchao Wei for receiving Munich Re/HSB Student Poster Award at the 34th New England Statistics Symposium hosted by the University of Rhode Island on September 30-October 2, 2021.
PhD students Wenlin Yuan, Simiao Gao, Md Tuhin Sheikh, Daeyoung Lim, and Yiming Zhang received ISBA Travel awards
Wenlin Yuan, Simiao Gao, Md Tuhin Sheikh, Daeyoung Lim, and Yiming Zhang have been awarded ISBA (The International Society for Bayesian Analysis) Travel Award to attend the 2022 ISBA World Meeting or any other ISBA Section or co-sponsored meeting between now and December 31, 2022. Congratulations Wenlin, Simiao, Tuhin, Daeyoung, and Yiming!