‌The annual Al-Kindi Student Awards (sponsored by the CEMSE division) celebrate the talent and achievements of the Statistics Program's students. The awards are presented in recognition of the academic accomplishments (Al-Kindi Statistics Top Quals Student Award) and research impact (Al-Kindi Statistics Research Student Award) of our leading students in the fields of Statistics.

The awards are named after Al-Kindi (801-873 CE), a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, whose book entitled "Manuscript on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages" is believed to be the earliest writing on Statistics. In his book, Al-Kindi gave a detailed description of how to decipher encrypted messages using Statistics and frequency analysis. This text arguably gave rise to the birth of both Statistics and cryptanalysis.

 

2024:

Al-Kindi Statistics Top Quals Student Award:

• TBA

Al-Kindi Statistics Research Student Award:

• TBA
• TBA
• TBA

 

2023:

Al-Kindi Statistics Top Quals Student Award:

• Zuzheng Wang

Al-Kindi Statistics Research Student Award:

• Esmail Abdul Fattah
• Sagnik Mondal
• Paolo Victor Redondo

 

2022:

Al-Kindi Statistics Top Quals Student Award:

• Djidenou (Hans) Montcho

Al-Kindi Statistics Research Student Award:

• Rafael Medeiros Cabral
• Zhuo Qu
• Zhongwei Zhang

 

2021:

Al-Kindi Statistics Top Quals Student Award:

• Xiran Zhang

Al-Kindi Statistics Research Student Award:

• Samuel Horvath
• Ghulam Qadir
• Mary Lai O. Salvana

 

2020:

Al-Kindi Statistics Top Quals Student Award:

• Ghulam Qadir

Al-Kindi Statistics Research Student Award:

• Gaurav Agarwal
• Jian Cao
• Wanfang Chen