The Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research recognizes outstanding research conducted by ladder faculty members in the social or natural sciences, broadly construed, who are untenured at the time that the work is completed or published.
Zhou Fan, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, was awarded the Greer prize in recognition of groundbreaking research that draws on methods from mathematical statistics, probability theory, and computational algorithms, with applications in genetics and computational biology. His expertise lies in random matrix theory, high dimensional and multivariate statistics, random graphs and networks, and discrete algorithms, and he has introduced advances in statistical theory and methodology.