Awards

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award: Whit Weinmann, Greg Ellison, Jeevan Jankar

Best Student Consultant Award: Huimin Hu

Best Volunteer Student Consultant Award: Qian Zhang

Best MS Student Award: Emily Brown

Best Beginning PhD Student Award: Yongkai Chen

Best Senior PhD Student Award: Jialin Yang, Mengrui Zhang, Hongzhi Wang

The SEC Award: Huimin Cheng

Statistics Student Yiren Hou is a recipient of the CURO Summer Research Fellowship for Summer 2022. This award supports undergraduates to pursue intensive and immersive faculty-mentored research over summer. Under the guidance of Dr. Abhyuday Mandal and Dr. Gauri Datta, Yiren will utilize Bayesian approach to address data with extreme outliers, which is a challenge commonly faced by small area estimation. Small areas are subpopulations with small samples, for example, county and district-level are subpopulations.

Elise Karinshak, a junior majoring in Data Science and Marketing, was named a 2022 Goldwater Scholar, the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the United States for excellence in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Drs. Yan Jin, Jeff Hancock and Abhyuday Mandal were her mentors for this scholarship.

Congratulations to Huimin Cheng (from the Big Data Analytics Lab) for being selected to receive the prestigious Southeastern Conference (SEC) Emerging Scholars Assistantship for 2022-2023. An initiative of the SEC provosts, this award recognizes outstanding students and serves to prepare them for careers in higher education. This grant enables doctoral students to conduct research in support of their dissertations. Under the guidance of Drs.

Monsur Chowdhury is the recipient of the 2022 Franklin College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.

This award is made possible by a generous gift from the late Ted and Caroline Ridlehuber, friends and alumni of the college who make a life-changing impact on their students. Students are responsible for nominating faculty for the award. A committee of students (Franklin Ambassadors) chose the finalists. The letters that nominated Monsur commented on his outstanding skills and dedication as a teacher.