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Recent Awards And Honors 

	Elynn Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, has been awarded the prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship from National Science Foundation. Congratulations!
	Sai Li - Distinguished Written Paper Award, 2017 Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society (WNAR) Congratulations to our PhD candidate on this award!
	Yiwei Shen is the recipient of the 2017 Award for the best performance in the PhD Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
	Anthony Rosa is a finalist for the Student Partner of the Year award offered by WileyPLUS Student Partner program. Congratulations!

Dr. Han Xiao - has been awarded the "2018 Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award" from the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies
Congratulations!

Dr. Robin Gong - Recipient of the 2017-2018 Arthur P. Dempster Award
https://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/news/robin-gong-wins-2018-dempster-prize.

PI - Dr. Rong Chen - with co-PI's Drs. Fred Roberts of Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) and Minge Xie
of Statistics and Biostatistics Department.
NSF; "I-Group Learning for Dynamic Real Time Abnormality Detection with Applications in Maritime Threat Detection"

PI - Dr. Rong Chen - with co PI's Drs. Dan Yang and Cun-Hui Zhang of Statistics and Biostatistics Department
NSF: "BIGDATA: F: Statistical Learning with Large Dynamic Tensor Data"

Dr. Tirthankar Dasgupta - NSF: "Design and Analysis of Optimization Experiments with Internal Noise to Maximize Alignment of Carbon Nanotubes"

Dr. Ying Hung - NSF: "Collaborative Research: Statistical Modeling of Mechanosensing by Cell Surface Receptors"

Dr. John Kolassa - NSF: "Collaborative Research: Higher-Order Asymptotics and Accurate inference for Post-Selection"

Dr. Zhiqiang Tan - Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (pcori): "Improving casual inference methods via statistical learning with high-dimensional data"

Dr. Cun-Hui Zhang - NSF: "Collaborative Research: Statistical Methods, Algorithms and Theory for Large Tensors"