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Alumnus Anirban Bhattacharya with Noether Young Scholar Award
Wednesday, August 1, 2018Alumnus Anirban Bhattacharya, Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, won the Noether Young Scholar Award at this the recent JSM conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on his paper titled Bayesian Alpha-Posteriors and Alpha-Variational Bayes.
Open Rank Professor of the Practice
Wednesday, July 25, 2018The Department of Statistical Science at Duke University invites applications for open rank faculty position as Professor of the Practice to begin in Fall 2019. This position is a regular rank faculty with a term renewable appointment. Preference will be given to candidates demonstrating... Read More »
Surya Tokdar Elected Program-Chair for ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Tuesday, July 3, 2018Associate Professor Surya Tokdar has been elected the Program Chair-Elect 2019 for the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association! He will serve as the Program Chair for SBSS in 2020. Congratulations Surya!
Jim Berger Awarded Zellner Medal from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Monday, July 2, 2018Jim Berger was awarded the Zellner Medal from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis at the 2018 World Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Zellner Medal honors Arnold Zellner, one of the founders of ISBA and ISBA’s first president. The purpose of the Zellner Medal is to recognize ISBA... Read More »
Lorin Crawford Receives Savage Award for Outstanding Dissertation
Monday, July 2, 2018Lorin Crawford (Duke PhD 2018) received the 2017 Savage Award in Applied Methodology at the 2018 World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis for his outstanding dissertation Bayesian Kernel Models for Statistical Genetics and Cancer ... Read More »
David Banks Awarded DeGroot Prize from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Monday, July 2, 2018David Banks, and coauthors Jesus Rios, and David Rios Insua were awarded the DeGroot Prize for their book, Adversarial Risk Analysis published by CRC Press. The Prize is named for Morris H. (“Morrie”) DeGroot, and recognizes the impact and importance of his work in... Read More »
Jerry Reiter named editor of Statistics and Public Policy
Thursday, June 28, 2018Jerry Reiter will be the next editor of Statistics and Public Policy, an open access journal of the American Statistical Association. The journal publishes papers that apply statistical methods to answer problems in public policy or relevant political science. Jerry is professor and... Read More »
Sayan Mukherjee Named IMS Fellow
Wednesday, June 27, 2018Sayan Mukherjee, Professor. Duke University, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). An induction ceremony will take place on July 2, 2018, at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. Dr. Mukherjee received the award for significant contributions to... Read More »
2018 Graduation Photos
Wednesday, June 27, 2018We had a nice Graduation Reception on May 13th, at the Rickhouse in Durham. Here are some photos to enjoy.
Peter Hoff Named IMS Fellow
Thursday, June 21, 2018Peter Hoff, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). An induction ceremony will take place on July 2, 2018, at the IMS Annual Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. Dr. Hoff received the award for sustained... Read More »