Lab alumuni Harsh, Ji Ah, and Anjali came back to the pioneer valley to take part in their PhD hooding ceremony. It’s so nice to see you again and meet your families who traveled from far away. It was a joy to share in the celebration with you all.
Harsh Vardhan Dubey successfully defended his thesis titled, “Decision-making in Graphical Models and Game-Theoretic Statistics”. Thanks to Profs. Shahriyari, Chu, and Zick for serving on his committee. Congratulations Dr. Dubey!
Ji Ah Lee successfully defended her thesis titled, “Benders’ Decomposition for Solving the Lagrangian Relaxation of Probabilistic Graphical Models”. Thanks to Profs. Katsoulakis, Liu, and Sheldon for serving on his committee. Congratulations Dr. Lee!
Alexis Edozie was selected as a winner of the five college statistics prize for 2022. Congratulations Alexis!

Thomas Cook passed his final qualifying exam and advanced to PhD candidacy. Congratulations Thomas!