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!
Student Awards
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. […]
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.
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.
Namitha Pais Wins Student Research Award at New England Statistics Symposium
The Ph.D. student was recognized for her outstanding paper titled “Ensemble Backcasting of Wave Heights in the Long Island Sound.”
Irene Soteriou ’23 (CLAS) Named Truman Scholar
A double major in statistics and cognitive science, Soteriou is the 10th UConn student to have earned the prestigious honor.
Undergraduates Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to the UConn statistics and mathematics-statistics majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa for 2022.
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 […]