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What's New?
(older news items here)
- I am co-organizing the
2025 New England Symposium on
Statistics in Sports (NESSIS),
to be held at Harvard University on Saturday, September 27, 2025.
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I was interviewed at the 2025 JSM on
music discovery algorithms,
which appeared on "JSM TV".
I also ended up performing my old standard
Valencia Wood, a statistics
song parody of the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood."
Thanks to Laney and Brian at
WebsEdge for the
very professional video production.
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The paper "Across the Board: Sex, Ratings, and Retention in Competitive Chess,"
by Angela Li, me, and Chris Chabris,
has been published in Chance.
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The 2025-6 academic year is going to be quite busy, administratively.
I will be serving in the following leadership roles within Harvard:
- Director of Graduate Studies in Statistics (jointly with Susan Murphy)
- Director of Master's Study in Statistics
- Co-chair of the Standing Committee on the S.M. degree in Data Science
(along with Finale Doshi-Velez)
I am also
- Chair of the ASA Committee on Data Science and AI
- Chair of the US
Chess Ratings Committee
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The manuscript
"ASA Members’ Perspectives on the Use of Generative AI" by me and
Jun Yan
has been published in Chance, and available online on July 8, 2025.
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I gave the keynote address at the July 1, 2025
Harvard Business
Analytics Program conferral ceremony.
My address, which includes a magic trick, starts at the 2-minute mark
on the video recording.
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I have just posted the paper
"Rating competitors in games with strength-dependent tie probabilities"
on arXiv.
The paper is under peer-review.
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The paper
"Paired comparison models with strength-dependent ties and order effects"
is now posted on arXiv, and is under peer-review.
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I am a 2025 winner of the American Statistical Association's
Founders Award, recognizing distinguished service to the association.
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I presented the talk
"Analyzing popular songs through statistical embeddings", and
chaired the panel discussion
"Navigating the AI Frontier: Career Challenges and Opportunities for Statisticians"
at the 2025 Joint
Statistical Meetings, August 2-7, 2025.
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I performed some magic tricks
with the Society of Harvard Undergraduate Magicians
in a
show at the Worden Theater
in North Andover, MA on April 13.
- Director of Graduate Studies in Statistics (jointly with Susan Murphy)
- Director of Master's Study in Statistics
- Co-chair of the Standing Committee on the S.M. degree in Data Science (along with Finale Doshi-Velez)
- Chair of the ASA Committee on Data Science and AI
- Chair of the US Chess Ratings Committee