Andreas Artemiou (PhD 2010, adviser: Bing Li) was promoted to Reader in Statistics in the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University, UK. The position of “Reader” in the British system is equivalent to that of a high-level Associate Professor. Congratulations Andreas!
Won Chang (PhD 2014, adviser: Murali Haran) Won will be tenured and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in August 2022 at the University of Cincinnati. Won started a half-year sabbatical in Korea as a visiting scholar, invited by the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea, one of the flagship government-funded research institutes in the country. As well, Won will serve as a moderator for the event, “Asian Forward JSM 2022 Career Development Workshop” at JSM 2022 in Washington D.C.
Kiranmoy Das (PhD 2011, advisers: Rongling Wu and Runze Li) received the 2021 Prof. C. R. Rao National Award in Statistics for Young Statisticians. This prize is awarded by the Government of India and was presented on June 29, 2021. Congratulations to Kiranmoy!
John Hughes (PhD 2011, advisers: John Fricks and Murali Haran) was recently hired as an Associate Professor with tenure in Lehigh University’s new College of Health. In addition to collaborating with new colleagues at Lehigh, John continues doing research on methods for dependent data, Bayesian methods, and statistical computing.
Surajit Ray (PhD 2003, adviser: Bruce Lindsay) was recently promoted to Professor of Statistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. His research interests are in the area of model selection, the theory and geometry of mixture models and functional data analysis. Core areas of methodological research include multivariate mixtures, structural equations models, high-dimensional clustering, and functional clustering. Congratulations Surajit on your well-deserved promotion!
James Russell (PhD 2017, advisers: Ephraim Hanks and Murali Haran) James received tenure at Muhlenberg College.
Ji-Ping Wang (PhD 2003, adviser: Bruce Lindsay) is a professor in statistics and adjunct professor in Molecular BioSciences at Northwestern University. He will be starting his third year as Chairperson in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Northwestern University in fall 2022.
