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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 |
2019
| 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
2022
| One of the winners of the ASA Risk Analysis 2022 Student Paper Award | Jackson Lautier |
| NESS Student Research Award at the 35th New England Statistics Symposium | Namitha Pais |
| 3rd Place in the Poster Presentations at the 2022 ISBA Conference in Montreal, Canada | Garrett Frady |
2021
| UCONN McNair Fellows for the Fall 2021 Semester | Uyen Le, Christine Nguyen |
| Named James A. Hickman Scholar by The Society of Actuaries |
Elizabeth Gibbs |
| The Kenneth and Paula Munson Family Fund for Student Support in Health Sciences Fellowships | Yunqi Wang |
| Spiegelman Award of the 2021 Transportation Statistics Interest Group (TSIG) Of the Asa Student Paper Competition | Yiming Zhang |
| ISBA (The International Society for Bayesian Analysis) Travel Award | , Simiao Gao, Daeyoung Lim, Md Tuhin Sheikh, Wenlin Yuan, Yiming Zhang |
| IBM Student Paper Award at the 34th New England Statistics Symposium | Md Tuhin Sheikh |
| Munich Re/HSB Student Poster Award at the 34th New England Statistics Symposium | Jing Wang, Ganchao Wei |
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 |