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Annual Statistics Department Awards for Student Achievement
2021
Fairfield & Dolores Smith Award | Elizabeth Gibbs |
Gottfried Noether Award | Elizabeth Gibbs, Cuong Nguyen, Lijia Wang |
Best Performance in Probability | Zhiduo Chen, Surya Eada |
Best Performance in Inference | Jianmin Chen, Zijian Huang, Jun Jin |
Best Performance in Biostatistics | Catherine Cheu, Cuong Nguyen |
Teaching Award | Austin Menger |
Service Award | Simiao Gao, Daeyoung Lim, Katherine Zavez |
Mark of Excellence Award | Jung Wun Lee, Jun Jin |
2020
Fairfield & Dolores Smith Award | Surya Eada, Ganchao Wei |
Gottfried Noether Award | Jung Wun Lee, Min Lin |
Best Performance in Probability | Srawan Bishnoi, Jiadong Fang |
Best Performance in Inference | Daeyoung Lim, Jiadong Fang |
Best Performance in Biostatistics | Simiao Gao |
Teaching Award | Katherine Zavez |
Service Award | JooChul Lee, Austin Menger, Wenlin Yuan, Yiming Zhang |
Fairfield & Dolores Smith Award | Katherine Zavez, Jiadong Fang and Zhiyong Hu |
Gottfried Noether Award | Wenqing Yu, Shuang Wu and Jiadong Fang |
Best Performance in Probability | Chaoran Hu |
Best Performance in Inference | Cheng Huang |
Best Performance in Biostatistics | Wenqing Yu and Qingyang Liu |
Excellence in Teaching Award | Eric Baron and Md. Tuhin Sheikh |
Service Award | Yan Li, Jieying Jiao and Qi Qi |
Mark of Excellence | Zhiyong Hu |
2018
Mark of Excellence Award | Hongfei Li |
Fairfield & Dolores Smith Award | Hongfei Li & Cheng Zhang |
Gottfried Noether Award | Hongfei Li & Tulika Paul |
Best Performance in Probability Award | Jieying Jiao |
Best Performance in Inference Award | Lijiang Geng |
Best Performance in Biostatistics Award | Wei Shi |
Excellence in Teaching Award | Matthew-Henry Linder, Yan Li, Yang Liu |
2017
Mark of Excellence Award | Yan Li, Qingyang Liu, Cheng Zhang |
Best Performance in Probability | Lijiang Geng |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Jieying Jiao, Yan Li |
Department of Statistics Service Award | Yeongjin Gwon, Hao Li, & Wenjie Wang |
H. Fairfield Smith and Dolores S. Smith Award for Excellence in Applied Statistics | Qingyang Liu & Yulia Sidi |
Best Performance in Inference | Yang Liu |
2016
(pictured left to right), Professor Chen, Greg Vaughan, Prof. Kuo, Yang Liu, Yishu Xue, Chen Zhang, Hao Li, Prof. Mukhopadhyay, Lijiang Geng, Prof. Yan, Fan Zhang.
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Yishu Xue & Yichen Zhou |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Lijiang Geng |
Probability Sequence Award | Yang Liu |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Greg Vaughan |
Best Performance in Inference | Hao Li |
Best Performance in Biostatistics | Chen Zhang |
2015
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Chen Zhang |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Peitao Wu |
Probability Sequence Award | Fan Zhang |
Teaching Award | Greg Vaughan |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Hee-Koung Joeng & Dooti Roy |
Mark of Excellence Award | Hao Li |
2014
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Fan Zhang & Hao Li |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Fan Zhang |
Probability Sequence Award | Zhuo Wang & Jing Wu |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Ved Deshpande |
Teaching Award | Paul McLaughlin |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Ved Despande & Dooti Roy |
2013
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Ved Deshpande |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Ved Deshpande & Jing Wu |
Probability Sequence Award | Yujing Jiang & Bo Zhao |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Volodymyr Serhiyenko |
Teaching Award | Swarnali Banerjee |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Danjie Zhang |
2012
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Zhuo Wang |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Gyuhyeong Goh |
Probability Sequence Award | Swarnali Banerjee |
2011
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Hee-Koung Jeong |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Volodymyr Serhiyenko |
Probability Sequence Award | Sankha Perera |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Swarnali Banerjee |
2010
Probability Sequence Award | Hongwei Shang & Xun Jiang |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Yuanye Zhang |
Teaching Award | Marcos Prates & Jeffrey Stratton |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Jeffrey Stratton |
Department Service Award | Jeffrey Stratton |
2009
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Hongwei Shang |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Hongwei Shang |
2008
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Xiaojing Wang & Debanjan Bhattacharya |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Xiaojing Wang |
Probability Sequence Award | Miaomiao Ge |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Sylvie Tchmtchoua |
2007
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Sandra Hurtado Rua |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Miamiao Ge |
Probability Sequence Award | Xia Wang |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Patrick Joyce |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Rohini Sen |
2006
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Jeffrey Stratton |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Yuchen Gu |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Wangang Xie |
2005
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Wangang Xie |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Patrick Joyce |
Probability Sequence Award | Elijah Gaioni |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Pengfei Li & Samiran Ghosh |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Ulysses Diva |
2004
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Elijah Gaioni |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Elijah Gaioni |
Probability Sequence Award | Zoe Oemcke |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Samiran Ghosh |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | William Pepe |
2003
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Jiejing Qiu |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Feng Guo |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Seongho Song |
2002
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Zoe Oemcke |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Seongho Song |
2001
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Shanshan Wu |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Hai Xu |
2000
Junfeng Liu | Ved Deshpande |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Prashni Paliwal |
Probability Sequence Award | Junfeng Liu |
1999
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Chun-Chen Pai |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Patrick Wang |
Teaching Award | Gregory Cicconetti |
1998
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Guangyong Zou |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Yu Wu |
Probability Sequence Award | Yu Wu & Biao Chen |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Jun Ying |
Teaching Award | William T. Duggan |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | T. Zhang |
1997
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Zhen Chen |
Probability Sequence Award | Keith Holler |
Best Performance in Statistical Inference | Sudipto Banerjee |
1996
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Fei Wang |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Mark Ecker & Malini Iyengar |
1995
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | George Mangiero |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Philip Castoro |
Appreciation for Outstanding Service | Marco Bonetti & Pantelis Vlachos |
1994
H. Fairfield Smith Award for Applied Statistics | Julie Bouffard |
Gottfried Noether Award for Mathematical Statistics | Helen Aslanidou |
External Awards Received By Students
2020
IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award | Aritra Halder |
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) Award | Jackson Lautier |
HPSS Student Paper Award | Yulia Sidi |
ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award and John Van Ryzin Award | Zhe Sun |
ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award | Yan Li |
The Student Paper Award in the Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Sections of the ASA | Chaoran Hu |
One of the winners of the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences(IBACS) Graduate Summer Fellowship Competition | Katherine Zavez |
Honorable Mention for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Ford Foundation Fellowship | Prince Allotey |
2019
Travel awards for the Quality and Productivity Research Conference 2019 (QPRC) | Renjie Chen, Henry Linder, and Patrick Toman |
Honorable Mention for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Ford Foundation Fellowship | Prince Allotey |
KAUPA GOLD scholarship | JooChul Lee |
ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award | Yishu Xue |
2018
Honorable Mention at SAM 2018 | Xiaokang Liu and Wanwan Xu |
ASA Datafest Competition | Adam Busa, Aleya Hafez, and Tom Kennon |
Phi Beta Kappa – Inductees | Emma Fern Barringham, Justin Ronald Brockway, Xiaotong Li, Alyssa Orlofsky, and Xuan Ren |
2017
Phi Beta Kappa – Inductees | Francisco Tomas Cifuentes Villarroel, Sarah Cynthia Crothers, Jessica Hope Lerner, Samuel Schick, and Emily Elizabeth Stiles |
Won an ACTNext Travel Award to attend and present at the 2017 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Zurich, Switzerland | Yang Liu |
Received travel awards for the 24 th Quality and Productivity Research Conference and Summer Institutes at the University of Washington | Disheng Mao |
Completed a summer internship at the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC | Qian Meng |
Won the Student Paper Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Statistical Association | Gregory Vaughn |
Won a IBM Student Paper Award at the 31 st New England Statistics Symposium | Wenjie Wang |
2016
ASA Undergraduate Datafest – Winners | Daniel Brink ’16, Nicholas Illenberger ’17, Jiachen Liang ’16, and Peter Tallcouch ’16 |
The 10th ICSA International Conference Young Researcher Travel Award | Yu-Bo Wang |
2015
FTC DetectaRobo Analytics Challenge – Winners | Ved Deshpande and M. Henry Linder |
2015 IBM Student Paper Award | Yu-Bo Wang |
2014
UConn Center for Transportation and Livable Systems (CTLS) Award For Interdisciplinary Research | Volodymyr Serhieyenko |
First Place at the Applied Public Health Statistics (APHS) Student Research Competition at the 2014 APHA Annual Meeting | Chantal Larose |
Student Paper Award from Section on Bayesian Statistical Science | Gyuhyeong Goh |
Student Travel Award from APHA | Chantal Larose |
Best Student Paper Award from IMPS | Abhisek Saha |
Student Travel Award from International Psychometric Society | Abhisek Saha |
SHARE awardee | Rajeshwari Majumdar |
Travel Awards to QPRC and Nair’s conference | Yaohua Zhang |
ICSA student paper award | Chongliang Luo |
2013
Institute of Teaching and Learning – Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award | Valerie Pare |
Elected to UConn Phi Kappa Phi | Jen Boyko & Ashok Chaurasia |
ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Award | Danjie Zhang |
International Conference on Health Policy Statistics – Student Travel Award | Ashok Chaurasia |
ISBA Student Travel Award (to present at MCMSki IV) | Gyuhyeong Goh |
2013 IBM Student Award at NESS | Gyuhyeong Goh |
Institute of Teaching and Learning’s 2013-2014 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award | Valerie Pare |
ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Award at the ICSA/ISBS 2013 Joint Conference | Danjie Zhang |
Macfarlane Fellowship and Matthew Goldstein Fund for Graduate Education in Statistics Award (summer fellowship) | Dooti Roy |
Young Presenters at Frontiers of Hierarchical Modeling in Observational Studies, Complex Surveys and Big Data: A Conference Honoring Professor Malay Ghosh | Dooti Roy |
2012
International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Student Award (for the paper “Semiparametric Multivariate Accelerated Failure Time Model with Generalized Estimating Equations”) | Steven Chiou |
Co-Winner of the American Statistical Association Connecticut Chapter Mini-Conference poster competition | Chantal Larose |
2011
Best YSI Poster, ISI World Congress | Karthik Bharath |
Graduate Research Award – Uconn Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering | Xun Jiang |
NSF Scholarship (to give a talk at Stochastic Processes and Applications (SPA) 2011 conference) | Karthik Bharath |
NSF Travel Award (to attend and present poster at 8th Workshop on Bayesian; Veracruz, Mexico 2011) | Karthik Bharath |
Best Paper Award at NESS | Karthik Bharath |
Student Travel Award to the 9th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics | Ashok Chaurasia |
Student Paper Award at the Joint Statistical Meetings from the Social Statistics, Government Statistics, and Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association | Yung-wei Chen & Steven Chiou |
2010
APHA Student Travel Award (For the 138th American Public Healthy Association Annual Meeting) | Sandra Huartado-Rua |
Graduate Awards of the Center for Environmental Science and Engineering | Xun Jiang |
2009
The Mitofsky Fellowship from the Uconn Roper Center | Sylvie Tchumtchoua |
Pfizer Global Research & Development Student Fellowship Program | Miaomiao Ge |
Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Award | Sylvie Tchumtchoua |
2009 Quality and Productivity Research Conference Scholarship Award | Brien Aronov & Shan Hu |
SAMSI Student Travel Award (for 2009 workshop in Space-time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change) | Sandra Huartado-Rua |
SAMSI Student Travel Award (for 2009 workshop in Space-time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change) | Ran Liu |
SAMSI Student Travel Award (for 2009 workshop in Space-time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change) | Sylvie Tchumtchoua |
Student Poster Award for “The Harmonic Mean Method Encourages Over-Partitioning in Bayesian Phylogenetics” | Rui Wu |
3rd Place at the Connecticut American Statistical Association Poster Competition | Trevor Rak |
Tied for Honorable Mention at the Connecticut American Statistical Association Poster Competition | Owen Kileen, Brittany Artale & Jeffrey Hessler |
Tied for Honorable Mention at the Connecticut American Statistical Association Poster Competition | Christopher Livingston, Austin Thompson, & Joshua Fish |
2008
Pfizer Global Research & Development Student Fellowship Program | Wangang Xie |
Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Award | Sylive Tchumtchoua |
2007
American Statistical Associate – “Stat Bowl” Winner | Balaji Raman |
American Statistical Associate – “Stat Bowl” Winner | Sourish Das |
Student Travel Award from the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the ASA | Sourish Das |
2nd Place in the Calculus Competition | Sy Han (Steven) Chiou |