Endowed Faculty Appointments
Endowed chairs, professorships and fellowships celebrate the distinguished faculty whose scholarship, teaching and leadership advance the field of statistics and uphold Texas A&M University’s commitment to excellence. These appointments are made possible through the generosity of donors whose vision and support ensure the continued pursuit of academic and research excellence within the department.
Endowed Faculty Chairs
Bani Mallick
- Distinguished Professor
- Regents Professor
- Susan M. Arseven Chair
- Director Cntr. Stat. Bioinfo
- Office: Blocker 401B
- Phone: (979) 845-3141
- Email: bmallick@stat.tamu.edu
Raymond Carroll
- Distinguished Professor
- Jill and Stuart A. Harlin '83 Chair in Statistics
- Office: Blocker 458C
- Phone: (979) 845-3141
- Email: carroll@stat.tamu.edu
Brani Vidakovic
- Professor
- Department Head
- H.O. Hartley Chair in Statistics
- Office: Blocker 430
- Phone: (979) 845-3141
- Email: brani@stat.tamu.edu
Valen Johnson
- Distinguished Professor
- George P. Mitchell '40 Chair in Statistics
- Office: Blocker 415C
- Phone: (979) 845-8817
- Email: vjohnson@stat.tamu.edu
Endowed Faculty Fellowships
Huiyan Sang
- Director of Undergraduate Program
- Professor
- Raymond J. Carroll and Dr. Marcia G. Ory Endowed Faculty Fellowships in Statistics
- Office: Blocker 464C
- Phone: (979) 845-3141
- Email: huiyan@stat.tamu.edu
Xianyang Zhang
- Professor
- Regina and Norman Carroll Faculty Fellowship in Statistics
- Office: Blocker 449D
- Phone: (979) 845-3141
- Email: zhangxiany@stat.tamu.edu
Anirban Bhattacharya
- Professor
- Patricia R. Smith and Dr. William B. Smith Faculty Fellow for Statistics
- Office: Blocker 459C
- Phone: (979) 845-3141
- Email: anirbanb@stat.tamu.edu
- Hartley Memorial Lectures
- H. O. Hartley Award
- William S. Connor Award
- The Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation
- Emanuel Parzen Graduate Research Fellowship Award
- Ronald R. Hocking Endowed Lecture Series In Statistics
- Anant M. Kshirsagar Endowed Fellowship in Statistics
- Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award
- 12th Man Award
- Ruth J. & Howard F. Newton Memorial Graduate Student Teaching Award in Statistics
- Ersen Arseven ’74 Annual Staff Award in the Department of Statistics
2025 Faculty Awards
- Dr. Jesús Arroyo awarded the Department of Statistics Teaching Award
- Dr. Mohammed Aburweis awarded the 2025 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Excellence Award
- Dr. Darren Homrighausen awarded the Department of Statistics Teaching Award
- Dr. Huiyan Sang awarded the Dr. Raymond J. Carroll and Dr. Marcia G. Ory Endowed Faculty Fellowships
- Dr. Xianyang Zhang awarded the Regina and Norman Carroll Faculty Fellowship in Statistics
- Dr. Mohamed Aburweis awarded the 2025 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Excellence Award
- Dr. Bani Mallick named a Regents Professor by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents
- Dr. Valen Johnson awarded a $750.000 grant from DOE-NNSA for participation in a TecH consortium
Fellowships
- Dr. Huiyan Sang: ASA Elected Fellow
- Dr. Bani Mallick: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Elected member of International Statistical Institute (ISI), Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
- Dr. Raymond Carroll: Fellow, American Statistical Association; Fellow, Institute for Mathematical Statistics; Elected member, International Statistical Institute; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Dr. Valen Johnson: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Dr. Suhasini Subbarao: Romberg Fellowship, University Heidelberg
- Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya: Patricia R. Smith and Dr. William B. Smith Faculty Fellowship for Statistics
- Dr. Nilanjana Laha: Spring 2023 ADVANCE NCFDD Faculty Success Fellow, Texas A&M; 2023 Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Career Initiation Fellow
- Dr. Suojin Wang: Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
- PhD student Jose Rodriguez-Acosta: NSF-GRFP Fellowship. First PhD student named one of the 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellows, which will fund his graduate studies
- Dr. Abhishek Chakrabortty elected Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society elected inductee
2025 Student Awards
- Rebecca Lee awarded the Dr. Joseph Newton Graduate Student Service Award
- Saptarshi Roy awarded the Dr. H. Joseph Newton Dean’s Excellence in Service to Science Award
- Valeriya Rogovchenko awarded the Newton Graduate Student Service Award
- Isaac Ray awarded the Ruth J. and Howard F. Newton Memorial Graduate Student Teaching Award in Statistics
- Snigsha Das awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2025 Student Paper Competition hosted by the American Statistical Association’s Sections on Survey Research Methods, Government Statistics, and Social Statistics
- Tahn Oh and Junhee Suh awarded second place in the undergraduate division of the 2025 Student Data Challenge
- Shuren He received the ASA ENVR student paper award for his work “GS-BART: Bayesian Additive Regression Trees with Graph-split Decision Rules”
- Niladri Kal awarded the Student Poster Award at the 2025 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference
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- Dr. Toryn Schafer appointed 2024 ConocoPhillips Data Science Faculty Fellow
- Dr. Abhishek Chakrabortty awarded the Teaching Excellence Award
- Dr. Yang Ni awarded the Research Impact Award for Associate Professors
- Dr. Huiyan Sang named a 2024 Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
- Dr. Rajarshi Guhaniyogi awarded 2023 Early Career Award for Statistics and Data Sciences from the International Indian Statistical Institute
- Dr. Rajarshi Guhaniyogi awarded a $1.7 million grant as a PI from the National Institute of Health
- Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya awarded the Patricia R. Smith and Dr. William B. Smith Faculty Fellowship
- Dr. Scott Crawford awarded the 2024 Association of Former Students College-Level Teaching Award
- Dr. James O. Berger named the 2024-2025 Hagler Fellow
- Yuchao Jiang named Standing Member at NIH Cancer and Hematologic Disorders (CHD) Study Section (2024 – 2028)
- Dr. Suhasini Subbarao received the Romberg Fellowship, University Heidelberg
- Dr. Sharmistha Guha awarded Information Science & Technology Institute (ISTI) Faculty Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Dr. Valen Johnson named Dean Emeritus of the College of Science
- Dr. Quan Zhou awarded the ASA Outstanding Chapter Service Award
- Dr. Patricia Ning awarded the ArtSci Research Award, Texas A&M University
- Dr. Patricia Ning awarded the TAMIDS Course Development Award, Texas A&M University
- Seongbaek Yi awarded one of the 50 Most Distinguished Professors in Pukyong National University’s 100-Year History
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- Nicholas Johannessen awarded the Buck Weirus Spirit Award
- Rebecca Lee awarded the G.R.A.D. Aggies Advanced Professional Development Certificate and the CIRTL Associate recognition
- Jose Rodriguez-Acosta awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
- Jacob Andros awarded the 2024 Ruth J. and Howard F. Newton Memorial Graduate Student Teaching Award
- Samuel Gailliot awarded for the 2024 student paper competition for the Section on Environmental Sciences (EnviBayes) of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- Chen Yang awarded the inaugural Su Binghua Distinguished Biostatistics Scholarship
- Gozde Sert awarded the the ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) Student Paper Award
- Gozde Sert awarded the IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) Student Paper Award
- Daniel Cirkovic awarded the Thomas Powell ’62 Graduate Fellowship Award
- Snigdha Das awarded the Thomas Powell ’62 Graduate Fellowship Award
- Isaac Ray awarded the John R. Frackler Jr. Endowed Graduate Student Award
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- Dr. Valen Johnson awarded a $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
- Dr. Toryn Schafer appointed ConocoPhillips Data Science Faculty Fellows
- Dr. Rajarshi Guhaniyogi awarded the ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) 2023 Early Investigator Award
- Texas A&M University, College of Arts and Sciences awarded a new CPRIT center grant for $5,998,422 (for 5 years) titled "Gene-Environment-Lifestyle Interactions in Cancer.”
- Dr. Quan Zhou awarded the NSF CDS&E
- Dr. Derya Akleman awarded Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Award, 2023-2024
- Dr. Yang Ni awarded the the 2023 CAS Faculty Excellence Award
- Dr. Derya Akleman awarded the 2023 College of Arts and Science, Inclusive Excellence award
- Dr. Raymond Carroll awarded the Jeremy Taylor Mentorship Award from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan
- Dr. Raymond Carroll was the Convocation Speaker, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Dr. Valen E. Johnson appointed as the George P. Mitchell ’40 Endowed Chair in Statistics
- Dr. Suhasini Subbarao awarded the Journal of Time Series Distinguished Author award
- Dr. Bani Mallick - Palmetto Lecture, University of South Carolina
- Dr. Sharmistha Guha awarded IMS New Researcher Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- Alicia Carriquiry named 2023-24 Hagler Fellow
- Dr. Nilanjana Laha named 2023 Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Career Initiation Fellow.
- Dr. Nilanjana Laha named Spring 2023 ADVANCE NCFDD Faculty Success Fellow, Texas A&M
- Seongbaek Yi awarded the Korean Prime Minister’s Award for 25 Years of Service in Education at a National University
- Raymond Wong awarded Top Reviewer, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
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- Jacob Pagel awarded the Outstanding Senior Award
- Aliah Vick and Fritz Hesse awarded the Best Visualization award and placed second in the ASA DataFest competition hosted by SMU Dallas
- JIYOUNG PARK and Isaac Ray won an award and funding from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
- Renat Sergazinov awarded first place in the SETCASA poster competition
- Connor Brubaker awarded second place in the SETCASA poster competition
- Myeongjong Kang awarded third place in the SETCASA poster competition
- Rebecca Lee awarded the Ruth J. and Howard F. Newton Memorial Graduate Student Teaching Award in Statistics
- Jose R. Acosta awarded the William S. Connor Award
- Hyunwoong Chang Emanuel Parzen Graduate Research Fellowship Award
- Abhisek Chakraborty Emanuel Parzen Graduate Research Fellowship Award
- Snigdha Das Anant awarded M. Kshirsagar Endowment
- Gozde Sert awarded SGSA Award
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- Dr. Valen Johnson Elected AAAS Fellow
- Dr. Brani Vidakovic Elected Cats Member
- Dr. Scott Bruce awarded the 2022 Data Science Course Development Program Award
- Dr. Abhishek Chakrabortty awarded the TAMIDS 2022 Career Initiation Fellow Program
- Dr. Raymond Carroll awarded the Honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
- Matthias Katzfuss elected Chair of the ISBA Program Council
- Dr. Yang Ni awarded the $1.19 Million NIH Grant To Leverage Single-Cell Sequencing Technology
- Dr. Raymond Carroll awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree by the University of Western Ontario
- Dr. Sharmistha Guha awarded the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award by j-ISBA
- Dr. Huiyan Sang awarded the Shell AI Sciences Innovation Award
- Dr. Bani Mallick awarded Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Statistics, UCONN
- Dr. Raymond Wong named Top Reviewer, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
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- Sina Mokhtar, Marcos Tsocalis, and Valerie Espinosa awarded first place in the Undergraduate SETCASA poster competition
- Lyle Schichl awarded second place in the Undergraduate SETCASA poster competition
- Changwoo Lee awarded first place in the SETCASA poster competition
- Daniel Cirkovic awarded second place in the SETCASA poster competition
- Zhao Tang Luo awarded third place in the SETCASA poster competition
- Rebecca Lee awarded the Basic Level G.R.A.D. Aggies Professional Development Certificate
- Junsouk Choi awarded 2022 ASA SBSS Student Paper Award
- Isaac Ray awarded a Graduate Mentoring Academic Fellow
- Myeongjong Kang awarded second place at the 2022 UCONN Statistics in Pharmaceuticals Conference’s Poster Session
- Prateek Jaiswal awarded first place at the 2022 TAMU Data Science Conference Poster Session
- Snigdha Das awarded third place at the 2022 TAMU Data Science Conference Poster Session
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- Dr. Alan Dabney awarded the Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence Award
- Shahina Rahman recognized as ConocoPhillips Data Science Faculty Fellow
- Dr. Irina Gaynanova awarded the Dr. Judith Edmiston Mentoring Award
- Dr. Sharmistha Guha awarded the Savage Award Honorable Mention, Applied Methodology, The International Society for Bayesian Analysis, ISBA Meetings
- Dr. Valen Johnson named Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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- Changwoo Lee awarded the Anant M. Kshirsagar Endowment
- Jiayi Wang awarded the Emanuel Parzen Graduate Research Fellowship Award
- Renat Sergazinov awarded the Ruth & Howard Newton Memorial Graduate Student Teaching Award
- Hyunwoong Chang awarded the William S. Connor Award
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- Yuchao Jiang awarded the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Dr. Raymond Wong named Top Reviewer, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- Dr. Suojin Wang awarded The University of Sydney Mathematical Research Institute International Visitor Program Award in 2020-2021
- Dr. Raymond Wong awarded Top Reviewer, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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- Dr. Bani Mallick awarded Association of Former students Distinguished Achievement in graduate mentoring, Texas A&M University
- Dr. Valen Johnson awarded Accountability, Climate and Equity (ACE) award for Women’s Progress Administrator
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- Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya awarded Gottfried E. Noether Young Scholar Award by the American Statistical Association
- Dr. Alan Dabney awarded the 12th Man Award
- Dr. Derya Akleman awarded the College of Science, Leadership in Equity and Diversity Award
- Dr. Huiyan Sang awarded ASA ENVR Early Investigator Award
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- Dr. Raymond Carroll awarded Fields Institute Distinguished Statistical Science Lecture, Toronto
- Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya awarded NSF Career Award, by Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS), National Science Foundation
- Dr. Alan Dabney awarded Distinguished Achievement University-Level Award in Teaching from The Association of Former Students; TAMU university-level award
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- Dr. Alan Dabney awarded Eppright Professorship in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence; TAMU university-level award
- Dr. Raymond Wong awarded the Discussion Paper, The Annals of Applied Statistics
- Dr. Valen Johnson named University Distinguished Professor
- Dr. Suojin Wang co-authored research paper entitled ``Neighborhood risk factors for fear of outdoor falling in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults" (with S. Lee et al.) was selected for the CDC Excellence in Safety Research for Active Living Award in 2016.
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- Dr. Raymond Carroll awarded Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award, from the American Statistical Association
- Dr. Raymond Carroll named Elected Fellow, by American Association for the Advancement of Science