Congratulations to Xiaoting Li, the winner of the 2024-25 Marshall Prize!
Xiaoting is in the final year of her Ph.D. in Statistics, supervised by Professor Harry Joe. Her thesis work on multivariate tail inference and extremes, plus other research outside her thesis has already resulted in publications in Entropy, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, and Environmetrics, in addition to two further submissions under review. Important applications include systemic risk for financial institutions, extreme flood insurance losses, and drought analysis, the latter going back to her Master's at McGill. Furthermore, Xiaoting was the instructor of our third-year course "Introduction to Probability" and has had provided valuable service roles for the Department of Statistics.
The Marshall Prize honours Professor Albert Marshall for his seminal work in the theory of statistical reliability and for his contributions to the development of statistics at UBC. The prize is awarded to an outstanding M.Sc. or Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics who has demonstrated excellence in the discipline of statistics as demonstrated by strength in the development and application of statistical methodology.
To learn more about this award and Professor Marshall and previous recipients, please visit: https://www.stat.ubc.ca/marshall-prize
Xiaoting Li Wins 2024-25 Marshall Prize for Excellence in Statistics
April 2, 2025