Department of Statistics

Our former PhD student Dr. Shen Guohao (currently an Assistant Professor in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) who was supervised by Prof. Lin Yuanyuan was awarded the HKSS – John Aitchison Prize in Statistics, 2024.

The Prize was established in 2022 by the Hong Kong Statistical Society (HKSS), to honour the distinguished career and contributions of Professor John Aitchison (1926-2016), Chair Professor of Statistics at the University of Hong Kong between 1976 and 1989 and founder and first President of the HKSS.

The objective of the Prize is to reward excellence in PhD research, as demonstrated by a research paper, in Statistics or a closely related discipline.

For more details, please visit:
https://www.hkss.org.hk/index.php/japrize