Faculty Awards

Prof. Neil Spencer awarded Makuch Faculty Fund Award in Mathematical Sciences

We are delighted to announce that Neil Spencer, Assistant Professor in Statistics, has been named the new Makuch Faculty Fellow (January 2025-December 2026). This fellowship was instituted through a generous donation from Robert Makuch (’72 CLAS). Neil Spencer, PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in robust Bayesian inference, network science, […]

Prof. Dipak Dey received Lifetime Achievement Award from The Indian Bayesian Society and the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference

  Prof. Dipak Dey received Lifetime Achievement Award from The Indian Bayesian Society and the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Recent Developments in the Techniques of Bayesian Paradigm, presented on January 6, 2025.   Congratulations!

Prof. Jun Yan has been awarded a seed grant from UConn’s Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS).

Prof. Jun Yan has been awarded a seed grant from UConn’s Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS). The title is Identifying the association between longitudinal changes in functional connectivity and Alzheimer’s disease progression. It’s in collaboration with Panpan Zhang of Vanderbilt University.