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Our students, alumni, and faculty have been recognized for their work and activities by the wider community. Here is a glimpse of our figurative trophy room.
Team Recognition
These awards honor projects involving both trainees and faculty. Student/alumni names are in bold.
2026 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Replication Prize - Team RESI (Simon Vandekar, Xinyu Zhang, Megan Jones, Kaidi Kang)
2025 Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award, ASA - Rameela Raman, David Schlueter, Ryan Jarrett, Sarah Lotspeich, Jamie Joseph, Julia Thome, Joshua Slone, Alexis Fleming, Lisa Levoir, Ashley Mullan, Lynne Berry
Students and Alumni
2026 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship, American Statistical Association's Government Statistics Section - Alexis Schwartz
2026 Clifford Spiegelman Student Paper Competition, ASA's Transportation Statistics Interest Group - Zongyue Teng, 2nd place, for "When Does the Silhouette Score Work? A Comprehensive Study in Network Clustering"
2026 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, Vanderbilt University Graduate School - Xinyu Zhang
2025 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, Vanderbilt University Graduate School - Kaidi Kang
2025 WSDS (Women in Statistics and Data Science) Conference Travel Award, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section (BIOP) - Ashley Mullan
2024 Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, Vanderbilt University Graduate School - Shengxin Tu
2023 Graduate Leadership Anchor Award, Vanderbilt Graduate Student Council - Jamie Joseph
Graduate Faculty
2026 - 2028 Chancellor Faculty Fellow, Vanderbilt University - Simon Vandekar
2026 Robert D. Collins Award for Excellence in Teaching, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine - William D. Dupont