PhD student Shike Xu has been selected to receive the 2026 LiDS Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “A Bayesian stochastic order-based C-index to quantify the association between jointly modeled longitudinal biomarkers and survival data.” He will present his paper in the LiDS section sponsored topic-contributed session in JSM 2026.
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The Statistics department thanks Tracy Burke for years of dedicated service
The Statistics department thanks Tracy Burke for years of dedicated service! Wish you the best in the future!
Congratulations to our undergraduate student Lucy Liu, for being selected to the University Scholar Program!
Congratulations to our undergraduate student Lucy Liu, for being selected to the University Scholar Program!
PhD student Alokesh Manna received the 2026 M.N. Das Memorial Young Scientist Award by the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications (SSCA)
PhD student Alokesh Manna received the 2026 M.N. Das Memorial Young Scientist Award by the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications (SSCA) for his research paper entitled “Bayesian joint selection of features and autoregressive lags in time series models: theory and applications in environmental and financial forecasting”. Congratulations!
Dr. Deepak Agarwal (Ph.D. 2001) has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn.
Dr. Deepak Agarwal has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn. He is Chief AI Officer at LinkedIn and a Distinguished Fellow at Fellows Fund. He will visit our department in Spring 2026. Congratulations!
Dr. Rongwei (Rochelle) Fu (Ph.D. 2003) has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn.
Dr. Rongwei (Rochelle) Fu has been selected as a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of the Department of Statistics at UConn. She is Director of the Biostatistics Education Program and Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She will visit our department in Spring 2026. […]
Xin Yang won 2025 NESS Student Paper Award
Phd student Xin Yang has been selected as one of the winners of the 2025 NESS Student Paper Award, based on the work “Integrative Learning of Quantum Dot Intensity Fluctuations under Excitation via Tailored Dynamic Mixture Modeling.”
Professor Xingche Guo awarded FY25 Research Excellence Program Award from UConn for his proposal entitled ‘Robust Causal Inference for Functional Responses via Double Machine Learning’
Professor Xingche Guo awarded FY25 Research Excellence Program Award from UConn for his proposal entitled ‘Robust Causal Inference for Functional Responses via Double Machine Learning’
Professor Wenrui Li awarded FY25 Research Excellence Program Award from UConn for her proposal entitled ‘Federated Causal Inference under Inference’
Professor Wenrui Li awarded FY25 Research Excellence Program Award from UConn for her proposal entitled ‘Federated Causal Inference under Inference’
Professor Dipak Dey delivered The Ronald R. Hocking Endowed Lecture Series in Statistics on Breakthrough in Statistical Science and received the award on April 25, 2025, at the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Professor Dipak Dey delivered The Ronald R. Hocking Endowed Lecture Series in Statistics on Breakthrough in Statistical Science and received the award on April 25, 2025, at the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Congratulations! Click here for more information: https://imstat.org/2025/05/15/best-of-statistical-science-workshop-honors-dipak-dey-ramses-mena/