Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards
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Faculty & Staff Award Recipients
| Recipient | Award | Year of Award |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Newton | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Innovation Award | 2023 |
| Sunduz Keles | ASA fellow | 2023 |
| Nicolas Garcia Trillos | NSF CAREER Award | 2023 |
| Sameer Deshpande | JASA Reproducibility Award | 2023 |
| Yingqiu He | IMS New Researcher Travel Award | 2023 |
| Yeonhee Park | Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award | 2023 |
| Guanhua Chen | NIH Long COVID Computational Challenge | 2023 |
| Nancy Brinkerhoff | University Staff Excellence Award | 2022 |
| Doug Bates | ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award | 2022 |
| Vivak Patel | ASA Brian A Millen Service Award | 2022 |
| Sebastien Roch | Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow | 2022 |
| Christina Kendzorski | Kellet Mid-Career Award | 2022 |
| Claudia Solis-Lemus | NSF Career Award | 2022 |
| Anru Zhang | IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award | 2022 |
| Chunming Zhang | IMS Medallion Award and Lecturer 2024 | 2022 |
| Guanhua Chen | Task 1 Winner of Pediatric COVID-19 Data Challenge | 2022 |
| Miaoyan Wang | NSF Career Award | 2022 |
| Anru Zhang | Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award | 2021 |
| Anru Zhang | Noether Young Scholar | 2021 |
| Grace Wahba | Honorary Doctorate of Science from Ohio State University | TBA |
| Grace Wahba | IMS Grace Wahba Award and Lecture | 2021 |
| Zhengjun Zhang | IMS Fellow | 2021 |
| Cecile Ane | H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow | 2018 |
Student Award Recipients
| Recipient | Award | Year of Award | Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Jones | Letters and Sciences Teaching Mentors | 2023 | 1st year PhD |
| Taiyu Ye | Letters and Sciences Teaching Mentors | 2023 | Chunming Zhang |
| Ajinkya Kokandakar | Student Research Grants Competition from UW-Madison for conference traveling | 2023 | Sameer Deshpande |
| Chanwoo Lee | ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science Best Student Paper Award | 2023 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Chanwoo Lee | New England Statistical Society Student Research Award | 2023 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Jiaxin Hu | Student Research Grants Competition from UW-Madison for conference traveling | 2023 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Soham Ghosh | ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics Best Student Paper Award | 2023 | Guanhua Chen and Zhengzheng Tang |
| Kwangmoon Park | ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award | 2023 | Sunduz Keles |
| Kwangmoon Park | ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics Best Student Paper Award | 2023 | Sunduz Keles |
| Nathan Kolbow | WID 100 Travel Award and a travel award from the Plant Pathology Professional Development Fund | 2023 | Claudia Solís-Lemus |
| Kwangmoon Park | ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award | 2022 | Sunduz Keles |
| Nathan Kolvow | WID100 Student Conference Travel Grant | 2022 | Claudia Solis-Lemus |
| Yuetian Luo | IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award | 2022 | Anru Zhang |
| Zhaoxing Wu | Hilldale Undergaduate/Faculty Research Award | 2022 | Claudia Solis-Lemus |
| Yuliang Peng | Trewartha Senior Honors Thesis Research Award | 2022 | Kris Sankaran |
| Donald Conway and Ayushi Mishra | MinneAnalytics Scholarship | 2022 | |
| Jifan Gao and Zhoujingpeng Wei | 1st Place in the DREAM Challenge for Pre-term Birth Prediction. | 2022 | Zheng-Zheng Teng and Guanhua Chen |
| Donald Conway | MinneAnalytics Scholarship | 2022 | |
| Ayushi Mishra | MinneAnalytics Scholarship | 2022 | |
| Gefei (Sylvia) Song | Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award | 2022 | Qiongshi Lu |
| MeleEvergreen-Hehemie Pluviose | Lime Connect Fellowship Finalist | 2022 | Carmela Diosona |
| Zhongxuan Sun | Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award | 2022 | Qiongshi Lu |
| Wen Ye | Undergradaute Scholarship for Summer Study | 2022 | Song Gao |
| Wen Ye | Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award | 2022 | Song Gao |
| Joowon Lee | WiSH Student Research Grant Competition Winner | 2022 | Peter Chien |
| Chenyue (Karen) Wu | Filene Research Institute's Undergraduate Case Competition | 2022 | |
| Bella Wu | Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Award | 2022 | Claudia Solis-Lemus |
| Chanwoo Lee | IMS Hannan Graduate student Travel Award | 2022 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Chan Park | The Norman Breslow Prize | 2022 | Hyunseung Kang |
| Chan Park | IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award | 2022 | Hyunseung Kang |
| Chan Park | IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award | 2022 | Hyunseung Kang |
| Steven Moen | L&S TA Mentorship Award | 2022 | Zhengjun Zhang, Yahzen Wang |
| Steven Moen | ASA John J. Bartko Award | 2022 | Zhengjun Zhang, Yahzen Wang |
| Chanwoo Lee | Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Hannan Travel Award | 2022 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Jiaxin Hu | Best Stduent Paper Award-Honorable Mention in ASA Statistical Learning and Data Science Section | 2022 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Steven Moen | John J. Bartko Scholarship | 2022 | Zhengjun Zhang, Yahzen Wang |
| Chan Park | IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award | 2022 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Rungang Han | IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award | 2022 | Anru Zhang |
| Jiaxin Hu | Best Student Paper Award - Honorable Mention | 2022 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Sean Kent | Student Grants & Awards | 2021 | Menggang Yu |
| Wen Ye | MinneAnalytics Scholarship | 2021 | |
| Chan Park | ASA Biometrics Student Paper Award | 2021 | Hyunseung Kang |
| Jiaxin Hu | ASA section of Statistical Computing and Graphics best student paper | 2021 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Chanwoo Lee | ASA section of Statistical Computing and Graphics best student paper | 2021 | Miaoyan Wang |
| Juan Francisco Mandujano Reyes | Ce-an Zuo & Chao-ming Wang Scholarship | 2021 | |
| Michael Mays | L&S Continuity of Instruction Award | 2021 | |
| Rungang Han | ASA Section of Learning and Data Science Best Student Paper Award | 2021 | Anru Zhang |
| Yuetian Luo | ASA Section of Learning and Data Science Best Student Paper Award | 2021 | Anru Zhang |
| Shushu Zhang | ASA Lingzi Lu Memorial Award | 2021 | Vivak Patel |
| Yuchen Zhou | IMS Hannan Graduate student Travel Award | 2021 | Anru Zhang, Yazhen Wang |
| Steven Moen | Outstanding Teaching for a Gateway Course | 2021 | |
| Sixtus Dakurah | Outstanding Teaching for an Undergraduate Course | 2021 | |
| Linquan Ma | Outstanding Teaching for a Graduate Course | 2021 | Hyunseung Kang |
| Shushu Zhang | ASA Lingzi Lu Memorial Award | 2021 | Vivak Patel |
| Liam Johnston | IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Student Travel Award | 2020 | Vivak Patel |
| Sean Kent | Honorable Mention in John Hunter Excellence in Plotting | 2020 | Menggang Yu |
| Srikanth Aravamuthan | Honorable Mention in John Hunter Excellence in Plotting | 2020 | Menggang Yu |
Department Awards
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Minne Analytics Scholarship
| The Department of Statistics is delighted to announce Wen Ye as the winner of a 2021 MinneAnalytics scholarship. Wen is a triple major in Statistics, Data Science (the relatively new degree program sponsored by Statistics) and Computer science. In addition to superlative classroom performance in these areas she has exercised an admirable interest in helping the community by volunteering as a Badger Mentor and focusing her class projects on infrastructure visualization tools. We are all proud of her for showing some of the many ways in which data analytics can benefit our society. Congratulations, Wen! Bio-Wen Ye is a rising junior studying computer science, statistics and data science at UW-Madison. She is dedicated to data-driven decisions and various machine learning techniques applied to geospatial data in particular. She is part of the Geo-DS Lab under the guidance of Professor Dr. Song Gao. Currently, she is working on identifying health provider shortage areas in Wisconsin and create rational service areas. She is also an active participant of the UW Data Science Club (dotdata). In the future, she hopes to go to graduate school in the field of computer science and become a data scientist. |
CDIS Ce-an Zuo & Chao-ming Wang Scholarship
| The CDIS Ce-an Zuo & Chao-ming Wang Scholarship is a $1,000 award given to an international statistics graduate student every other year. Applications for the award simply require a short statement about how the funds will be used to support the student's success in the department. Applications are announced and due during the spring term. The first award was given in the Spring 2021. |
TA Awards
The Statistics department could not accomplish its teaching mission without the contributions of Teaching Assistants (TAs), and values the excellent work of TAs in Statistics courses. Department TA awards recognize teaching excellence in 3 categories: gateway courses (STAT 301, STAT 324, STAT 371) which serve over 3000 non-statistics majors every year; statistics courses that serve undergraduate students (excluding gateway courses); and statistics courses that serve graduate students. The TA committee considers all TAs who taught statistics courses in the Fall and Spring of each academic year. Nominations are not necessary. Teaching excellence is evaluated by both students and instructors. Award winners in one academic year are not eligible for the same award the next academic year. Pending departmental funding, award winners receive up to $500 and honorable mention winners receive up to $250.
