Awards Information

Starting in Spring 2015, the Statistics Program at UIC began presenting three awards to its students. These awards went to graduate students who have excelled in one of the following areas: These awards will be given yearly to students who excel in research, consulting, and/or service.

Recipients

School Year Research Consulting Service
2023-2024 Yifei Huang Xinyu Qin
Yilin Xiong 		Minjin Lee
2022-2023 Zhou Yu Yifei Huang
Xia Zhou 		Yifei Huang
2021-2022 (none) (none) Fengli Zou
2020-2021 Danielle Tucker (none) Miaomai Zhou
2019-2020 Yushen Dong Elena Graetz Danielle Tucker
2018-2019 Hani Aldirawi Nurlan Abdukadyrov Raymond Mess
2017-2018 Keren Li Hani Aldirawi
Shuai Hao 		Yi Hua
Keren Li
2016-2017 Xianwei Bu Tian Tian
Duo Zheng 		Tian Tian
2015-2016 Keyu Nie
Tian Tian 		Liyuan Jiang
Shuai Hao 		Keren Li
Jennifer Pajda-De La O
2014-2015 Qianshun Cheng Xin Wang Jennifer Pajda-De La O

Other Awards

Award Award Description Year / Recipient Recipient Bio
Yeuk-Lam Yau-Leung
Memorial Scholarship 		This fund was created by Stephen Yau in memory of his mother Yeuk-Lam Yau-Leung. An award will be given to assist applied mathematics students each year, with priority given to students working in bioinformatics. May 2020:
Hani Aldirawi 		Hani has 7 papers published by peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings since 2018. He has received numerous awards, including the MSCS Graduate Student Teaching Awards, Statistics Consulting Award in 2018, and Statistics Research Award in 2019. He has accepted an offer of tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics of California State University, San Bernardino, starting fall 2020.