The Department of Statistics and Data Science celebrated graduation on Monday, May 20th. Awards were presented!
Graduate awards:
Francis J. Anscombe Award for Academic Excellence
Yutong Nie
Leonard J. Savage Writing Prize for Best Written Work
Tianhao Wang
Title: “Algorithm Dynamics in Modern Statistical Learning: Asymptotics, Universality, and Implicit Regularization”
Undergraduate awards:
Hartigan UG Award
Leon Lufkin
Leon’s paper “Sharp information-theoretic thresholds for shuffled linear regression” will be presented at the 2024 International Symposium on Information Theory in Athens Greece.
S&DS Outstanding Thesis Award
Nathan Chen
title: Utilizing Deep Learning to Predict Somatic Variant Pathogenicity
Howard Li
title: Quantifying Mental Resilience in Tennis Using Markov Chains
Sam Weissman
title: Host Gene Activation at the Integration Site Reduces HIV Expression by Transcriptional Interference
S&DS Senior Award
Kevin Chan
The S&DS Senior Award is awarded annually to the S&DS senior who has shown exemplary scholarship and outstanding leadership in statistics and data science.