2022
- Weijie Su – Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize, 2022 Description
For fundamental contributions to the development of privacy-preserving data analysis methodologies; for groundbreaking theoretical advancements in understanding gradient-based optimization methods; for outstanding contributions to high-dimensional statistics, including false discovery rate control and limits in sparsity estimation; for wide-ranging contributions to the theoretical foundation of deep learning.
- Jiaoyang Huang – 2022 Blavatnik Regional Awards, 2022
- Yuxin Chen – Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2022
- Bingxin Zhao – Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award, The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2022 Description
The highest level of graduate student scholarship at UNC-Chapel Hill
- Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen – Co-winner of the Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, 2022
- Edgar Dobriban – Junior research award, ICSA 2022 China Conference, 2022
- Yuxin Chen – Google Research Scholar Award, 2022
- Weijie Su – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Early Career Prize in Data Science, 2022
- Yuting Wei – NSF CAREER Award, 2022
- Bingxin Zhao – Kupper Dissertation Publication Award, Department of Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2022 Description
Recognition of the best doctoral dissertation-based paper appearing in a prestigious biostatistics journal completed during a calendar year
- Dylan Small – IMS Medallion Lecturer, 2022
2021
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice, 2021
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, Pierskalla Award for Best Paper in Healthcare, 2021
- Hamsa Bastani – 2nd Place, Public Sector in Operations Best Paper Award, 2021
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, Behavioral OM Best Working Paper Award, 2021
- Hamsa Bastani – 2nd Place, TIMES Working Paper Award, 2021
- Nancy R. Zhang – IMS Medallion Lecture, 2021
- Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya – NSF Career Award, 2021-2026
- Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya – Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2021
- Edgar Dobriban – NSF CAREER Award, 2021
- Shane T. Jensen – Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2021
- Linda Zhao – Wharton MBA Teaching Excellence Award, 2021
- Yuxin Chen – Princeton SEAS Junior Faculty Award, 2021
- Shuva Gupta – Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2021
2020
- Hamsa Bastani – Finalist, Public Sector in Operations Best Paper Award, 2020
- Edgar Dobriban – NSF-Simons Award on Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning, co-PI, 2020
- Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen – Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship, 2020
- Jiaoyang Huang – Simons Junior Fellow, 2020-2022
- Yuxin Chen – Princeton Graduate Mentoring Award, 2020
- Hamsa Bastani – People’s Choice Award, Early-Career Sustainable OM Workshop, 2020
- Emil Pitkin – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
- Zongming Ma – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
- Mark G. Low – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
- Shane T. Jensen – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
- Weijie Su – Facebook Faculty Research Award, 2020
- Bingxin Zhao – ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award, 2020
- Paul R. Rosenbaum – Medallion Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2020
- Weijie Su – Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2020
- Yuxin Chen – ARO Young Investigator Program Award, 2020
- Yuxin Chen – ICCM Best Paper Award (Gold Medal), 2020
- Eric T Bradlow – Linback Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring, 2020
2019
- Anderson Ye Zhang – ICSA New Researcher Award, 2019
- Hamsa Bastani – 2nd Place, Service Science Best Paper Award, 2019
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, Pierskalla Award for Best Paper in Healthcare, 2019
- Edgar Dobriban – NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution TRIPODS Award, co-PI, 2019
- Hamsa Bastani – People’s Choice Award, Early-Career Sustainable OM Workshop, 2019
- Yuxin Chen – AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award, 2019
- Yuxin Chen – Finalist for the Best Paper Prize for Young Researchers in Continuous Optimization, 2019
- Shane T. Jensen – Wharton Teaching Excellence Award, 2019
- Weijie Su – NSF CAREER Award, 2019-2024
2018
- Tony Cai – Peter Whittle Lecture, Cambridge University, 2018
- Edward I. George – Cornell University Distinguished Alumni for the Department of Statistical Sciences, 2018
- Jiaoyang Huang – Harvard Graduate Society Term-time Research Fellowship, 2018-2019
- Yuting Wei – Stein Fellowship, Stanford University, 2018
- Yuting Wei – Erich L. Lehmann Citation, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
- Anderson Ye Zhang – Francis J. Anscombe Award, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, 2018
- Emil Pitkin – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2018
- Jian Ding – Invited Address in the AMS Sectional Meeting, Boston, MA, 2018 Description
The AMS holds eight sectional meetings annually. Generally, there is one meeting in the spring and one in the fall in each section of the U.S.
- Edward I. George – Simons Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, 2018
- Dylan Small – Steve Feinberg Memorial Lecture Series in Advanced Analytics Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018
- Hamsa Bastani – Finalist, Pierskalla Award for Best Paper in Healthcare, 2018
- Paul R. Rosenbaum – Long-Term Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 2018
2017
- Edward I. George – Bohrer Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
- Jian Ding – Rollo Davidson Prize, 2017 Description
The Rollo Davidson Prize is a prize awarded annually to early-career probabilists by the Rollo Davidson trustees. It is named after English mathematician Rollo Davidson (1944–1970).
- Edgar Dobriban – T.W. Anderson Theory of Statistics Dissertation Award, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, 2017
- Paul R. Rosenbaum – C. G. Khatri Lecture, Penn State University, 2017
- Emil Pitkin – Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2017
- Paul R. Rosenbaum – Nathan Mantel Award from the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology of the American Statistical Association, 2017
- Linda Zhao – Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2017
2016
- Eric T Bradlow – J.B. Steenkamp Long-Term Impact Award, IJRM Best Paper, 2016
- Emil Pitkin – Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2016
- Paul R. Rosenbaum – Nelder Lecture, Imperial College, 2016
- Zongming Ma – Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2016
- Shane T. Jensen – SABR Analytics Conference Research Award in Contemporary Baseball Analysis, 2016 Description
for the paper “OpenWAR: an open source system for evaluating overall player performance in major league baseball.”
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2016
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2016
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2016
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, Pierskalla Award for Best Paper in Healthcare, 2016
- Weijie Su – Theodore W. Anderson Stanford Dissertation Award in Theoretical Statistics, 2016
- Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya – Probability Dissertation Award, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, 2016
2015
- Edgar Dobriban – Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Graduate Research Fellowship, 2015
- Eric T Bradlow – Anvil Award, Best Teacher in Wharton MBA Program, 2015
- Jian Ding – Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 2015-2017 Description
The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field. - Jian Ding – NSF Career Award, 2015-2020 Description
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
- Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, Health Applications Society Best Student Paper Award, 2015
2014
- Edward I. George – Fellow, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2014
- Zongming Ma – NSF CAREER Award, 2014
- Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen – Co-winner of the Society of Epidemiologic Research and American Journal of Epidemiology Article of the Year, 2014 Description
For the paper, “Assessment and indirect adjustment for confounding by smoking in cohort studies using relative hazards model” with David Richardson, Steve Cole
and Dominique Laurier. - Larry A. Shepp – (Posthumous) Co-recipient of the 2014 IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award, 2014
2013
- Andreas Buja – Keynote speaker, Classification Society Conference, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 2013
- Edgar Dobriban – Stanford Department of Statistics Teaching Award, 2013
- Mark G. Low – Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2013 Description
2011, 2013
- Lawrence D. Brown – Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), 2013
- Dylan Small – Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2013
- Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen – Career Incubator Award, Harvard School of Public Health, 2013-2014
2012
- Edward I. George – Challis Lecturer and Award for Outstanding Contributions to Statistics, University of Florida, 2012
- Edward I. George – Geisser Distinguished Lecturer, University of Minnesota, 2012
- Tony Cai – Hermann Otto Hirschfeld Lectures, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 2012
- Edgar Dobriban – Middleton Miller ’29 Prize for best independent work in mathematics, Princeton University, 2012
- Robert A. Stine – Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012
- Edward I. George – Palmetto Lecturer, University of South Carolina, 2012
- Jean Lemaire – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012
2011
- Robert A. Stine – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for MBA Teaching, 2011
- Edward I. George – Loeb Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis, 2011
- Shane T. Jensen – Sports in Statistics Award for Contributions to the Statistics in Sports Community, American Statistical Association, 2011
- Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen – Co-winner of the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize, 2011 Description
For the paper, “The use of negative controls to detect confounding and other sources of error in experimental and observational science.” with Marc Lipsitch and Ted Cohen.
- Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya – Sabyasachi Roy Memorial Gold Medal for the best master’s thesis, Statistics Program of the Indian Statistical Institute, 2009-2011
- Nancy R. Zhang – Sloan Fellowship, 2011
- Jean Lemaire – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011
2010
- Edward I. George – Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2010
- Tony Cai – Forum Lecture, 28th European Meeting of Statisticians, Piraeus, Greece, 2010
- J. Michael Steele – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
- Andreas Buja – Infovis best paper award for the article “Graphical inference for infovis” by Wickham, H., Cook, D., Hofmann, H., and Buja, A. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis’10)., 2010
2009
- Jiaoyang Huang – Gold medal in the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad, 2009
- Edward I. George – Penn IUR Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
- Robert A. Stine – Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009
- Shane T. Jensen – David W. Hauck Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The Wharton School, 2009
- Tony Cai – Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2009
- Eric T Bradlow – Finalist, H. Paul Root Award, Best Paper in Journal of Marketing, 2009
- Eric T Bradlow – Fellow of the American Education Research Association, 2009
- Eric T Bradlow – Inaugural Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania, 2009
2008
- Eric T Bradlow – Finalist, John D.C. Little Best Paper Award, 2008
- Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen – Best Poster Award: Gene Environment Initiative Symposium, Boston, MA, 2008
- Mark G. Low – Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2008
- Tony Cai – The COPSS Presidents’ Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, 2008
- Jean Lemaire – Elected honorary Chairman of ASTIN, 2008
- Jean Lemaire – Wharton Hauck Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Tenured Faculty Member, 2008
- Jean Lemaire – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton East WEMBA Teaching Award, 2008
2007
- Andreas Buja – Journal of Marketing, finalist for the Harold H. Maynard Award and featured blog article of the October Issue, 2007
- Eric T Bradlow – American Marketing Association EXPLOR Award, 2007
- Robert A. Stine – Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006-2007
- Edward I. George – Hartley Memorial Lecturer, Texas A&M University, 2007
- Nancy R. Zhang – New World Silver Medal for Best PhD Thesis in Mathematical Sciences, 2007
- Jean Lemaire – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2007
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton East WEMBA Teaching Award, 2007
2006
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton School, MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2006 Description
Wharton School, MBA Excellence in Teaching Award
- Eric T Bradlow – NCME Technical or Scientific Contribution to the Field of Educational Measurement: Development of Testlet Response Theory, 2006
- Andreas Buja – Keynote speaker, SIAM Conference on Datamining (SDM06), Bethesda, MD, USA, 2006
- Eric T Bradlow – “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Wharton MBA Teaching Award, 2006
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton School, MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2006
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton East WEMBA Teaching Award, 2006
- Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen – Yerby Fellowship, Harvard School of Public Health, 2006-2008
- Tony Cai – Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006
- Andreas Buja – Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006
- Jean Lemaire – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2006
2005
- Eric T Bradlow – First recipient of The K.P. Chao Professorship, 2005 Description
Named the first recipient of The K.P. Chao Professorship
- Eric T Bradlow – Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2005 Description
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- Eric T Bradlow – Appointed Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2005
- Eric T Bradlow – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award Finalist, 2001-2002, 2004-2005, 2005
- Shane T. Jensen – Leonard J. Savage Award for best thesis in Application Methodology from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2005
2004
- Eric T Bradlow – Finalist, Paul E. Green Award for the best paper in Journal of Marketing Research, 2004 Description
“A Learning-based Model for Imputing Missing Levels in Partial Conjoint Profiles,” co-authored with Y. Hue and T-H Ho, lead article and discussion paper, Vol. XLI (November 2004), 369-38
- Edward I. George – ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Mathematics, 2004
- Edward I. George – Wharton Core Professor Award, “Goes Above and Beyond”, 2004
- Edward I. George – Wharton Core Professor Award, “Tough But We’ll Thank in Five Years”, 2004
- Larry A. Shepp – Board of Governor’s Professor, Rutgers University, 2004
- Larry A. Shepp – Honorary Doctorate, New York Polytechnic University, 2004
- Mark G. Low – Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2004
- Robert A. Stine – Excellence in Teaching Award (Undergraduate Division), 2004
- Jean Lemaire – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004, 2004
2003
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton West WEMBA Teaching Award, 2003 Description
Wharton West WEMBA Teaching Award
- Eric T Bradlow – AERA Outstanding Reviewer, 2003 Description
AERA Outstanding Reviewer
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton School, MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2005 Description
2003, 2004, 2005
- Robert A. Stine – Miller-Sherrerd Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award, 2003
- Paul R. Rosenbaum – George W. Snedecor Award from COPSS, 2003
- Eric T Bradlow – AERA Outstanding Reviewer, 2003
2002
- Eric T Bradlow – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award Finalist, 2005 Description
2001-2002, 2004-2005
- Andreas Buja – IMS Medallion lecture, Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, 2002
- Lawrence D. Brown – Wilks Award of the American Statistical Association, 2002
2001
- Robert A. Stine – Excellence in Teaching Award (Undergraduate Division), 2001
- Robert A. Stine – David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2001
- Edward I. George – Excellence in Education Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
- Jean Lemaire – Elected Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, 2001
2000
- Edward I. George – Faculty Honor Roll for Core Class Teaching, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000
- Jean Lemaire – Best feature paper award, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2000
1999
- Eric T Bradlow – Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, 2002 Description
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
- Robert A. Stine – Miller-Sherrerd Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award, 1999
1998
- Eric T Bradlow – Wharton MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2001 Description
1998, 1999, 2001
- Edward I. George – Lawrence Baxter Memorial Lecturer, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1998
- Edward I. George – Dean’s Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-1999
- Edward I. George – CBA Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Contributions, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998
1997
- Eric T Bradlow – Finalist, American Statistical Association Savage Award Dissertation Prize, 1997 Description
Finalist, American Statistical Association Savage Award Dissertation Prize
- Eric T Bradlow – Appointed Research Consultant, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1997 Description
Appointed Research Consultant, AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Edward I. George – Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1997
- Jean Lemaire – Clarence Arthur Kulp Memorial Award, American Risk and Insurance Association, 1997
1996
- Edward I. George – Fellow, Center for Management of Operations and Logistics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996
- Edward I. George – Member, International Statistical Institute, 1996
- Robert A. Stine – Wharton MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 1996
- Edward I. George – Joe D. Beasley Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996
1995
- Edward I. George – Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1995
- Robert A. Stine – Excellence in Teaching Award (Undergraduate Division), 1995
- Robert A. Stine – Miller-Sherrerd Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award, 1994-1995
- Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen – Mars Scholar, Yale University, 1995-1996
- Abraham J. Wyner – Mathematical Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellow, NSF, 1995-1998
- Edward I. George – CBA Foundation Award for Research Excellence, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995
- Andreas Buja – Keynote speaker, European Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Leiden, 1995
1994
- Andreas Buja – Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1994
1993
- Edward I. George – GBC Award for Excellence in Teaching of the Core Curriculum, Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993
- Edward I. George – Spurgeon Bell Centennial Fellowship, Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993-1994
- Larry A. Shepp – Member, Academy of Arts and Science (AAS), 1993
- Lawrence D. Brown – Doctor of Science (Honorary), Purdue University, 1993
1992
- Eric T Bradlow – E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company young researcher award, 1992 Description
Corporate Marketing Division
- Larry A. Shepp – Member, Institute of Medicine (IOM), 1992
- Paul R. Rosenbaum – Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1992
1991
- Mark G. Low – Mathematical Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellow, NSF, 1991
1990
- J. Michael Steele – Frank Wilcoxon Prize, American Society for Quality Control and the American Statistical Association, 1990
1989
- Larry A. Shepp – Member, National Academy of Science (NAS), 1989
- J. Michael Steele – Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1989
1988
- Eric T Bradlow – Harvard University Derek Bok Center for excellence in teaching, 1991 Description
4-time winner
- Lawrence D. Brown – Lady Davis Professorship (Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem), 1988
- Jean Lemaire – International INA-Lincei Prize, Italian Academy of Sciences, 1988
1987
- Edward I. George – The Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1987
- Edward I. George – McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1987
- Jean Lemaire – Clarence Arthur Kulp Memorial Award, American Risk and Insurance Association, 1987
1986
- Jean Lemaire – Ernst Meyer Prize, Geneva Association, 1986
1985
- Lawrence D. Brown – Wald Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1985
1984
- J. Michael Steele – Fellow, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, 1984
1979
- Larry A. Shepp – IEEE Distinguished Scientist Award, 1979
1975
- Andreas Buja – Award Medal for diploma thesis in mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1975
1970
- Eugene Katsevich – Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2021
- Eric T Bradlow – Linback Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring, 1970
- Tony Cai – Laplace Lecture, Bernoulli Society, 10th World Congress in Probability & Statistics, 2020
- Tony Cai – International Chinese Statistical Association Distinguished Achievement Award, 2019
- Tony Cai – International Chinese Statistical Association Outstanding Service Award, 2019
- Paul R. Rosenbaum – R.A. Fisher Award and Lecture from COPSS, 2019
- Edward I. George – Yakovlev Colloquium, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, 2020
- Edward I. George – DeGroot Lecture, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020
1966
- Larry A. Shepp – Paul Levy Prize, 1966
1958
- Larry A. Shepp – Winner William Lowell Putnam Intercollegiate Mathematics competition, 1958
Faculty Index
Standing
Secondary
Affiliated
Emeritus
- Richard A. Berk
- Andreas Buja
- Warren Ewens
- Dean P. Foster
- Edward I. George
- Abba M. Krieger
- Jean Lemaire
- Edward J Lusk
- Paul R. Rosenbaum
- Paul Shaman
- J. Michael Steele
- Robert A. Stine