The New England Statistics Symposium is an annual conference that moves throughout the region. In odd-years the conference is held at the University of Connecticut. Short courses, break-out groups, poster sessions and keynote addresses are spread over two days. In recent years there has been a student paper competition and various other sponsored awards. A historical overview is presented below.

Year	Host	Keynote Speakers
2025	Yale University	John Lafferty, Yale University Heping Zhang, Yale University Nancy Zhang, University of Pennsylvania Michael Lopez, NFL
2024	Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Jianqing Fan, Princeton University Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, University of Pennsylvania Ji-Hyun Lee, University of Florida
2023	Boston University	Jeffrey Rosenthal, University of Toronto Francesca Dominici, Harvard University
2022	Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Biostatistics Susan Murphy, Harvard University
2021	Department of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Rhode Island	Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Siddhartha Chib, Washington University in St. Louis Christopher Schmid, Brown University
2019	Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Samuel Kou, Harvard University David Rosenberg / Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
2018	Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst	Montserrat Fuentes, Virginia Commonwealth University Dawn Woodard, Uber
2017	Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut	Xihong Lin, Harvard University David Madigan, Columbia University
2016	Department of Biostatistics, Yale University	Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Sally Morton, University of Pittsburgh
2015	University of Connecticut	Yaakov Bar-Shalom, University of Connecticut Adrian Raftery, University of Washington
2014	Harvard University	Alan Argesti, University of Florida Lee-Jen Wei, Harvard University
2013	University of Connecticut	Mike West, Duke University Richard Bass, University of Connecticut
2012	Boston University	Rick Durrett, Duke University Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon University
2011	University of Connecticut	Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota Jun Liu, Harvard University
2010	Harvard University	Iain Johnstone, Stanford University Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft Research New England
2009	University of Connecticut	James O. Berger, Duke University Richard A. Davis, Columbia University
2008	Suffolk University	Andrew Lo, MIT Martin Wells, Cornell University
2007	University of Connecticut	Paul Dupuis, Brown University Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut
2006	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Lawrence H. Cox, National Center for Health Statistics Soren Bisgaard, University of Massachusetts
2005	University of Connecticut	Evarist Gine, University of Connecticut David Harrington, Harvard University
2004	Harvard University	George Cobb, Mount Holyoke College Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003	University of Connecticut	Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University J. Michael Steele, University of Pennsylvania
2002	Yale University	Leon Gleser, Univeristy of Pittsburgh Bruce Levin, Columbia University
2001	University of Connecticut	Joseph Ibrahim, Dana Farber and Harvard University Joseph Horowitz, University of Massachusetts
2000	Brown University	David Mumford, Brown University Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
1999	University of Connecticut	Louise Ryan, Dana Farber and Harvard University Donald Geman, University of Massachusetts
1998	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	James Stock, Harvard University L.J. Wei, Harvard University
1997	University of Connecticut	Constantine Gatsonis, Brown University Richard Dudley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Gerald Hahn, General Electric John Pratt, Harvard University
1995	University of Connecticut	Andrew Barron, Yale University Cyrus Mehta, Cytel Corporation
1994	University of Rhode Island	Herman Chernoff, Harvard University David Salsburg, Pfizer Central Research
1993	University of Connecticut	Carl Morris, Harvard University Stuart Geman, Brown University
1992	Bentley University	Alan Gelfand, University of Connecticut Robert Devaney, Boston University
1991	University of Connecticut	Nan Laird, Harvard University David Pollard, Yale University
1990	University of Lowell	Yali Amit, Brown University Persi Diaconis, Harvard University
1989	University of Connecticut	Herman Chernoff, Harvard University Andrew Rukhin, University of Massachusetts
1988	University of Massachusetts
1987	University of Connecticut	John Hartigan,Yale University Donald B. Rubin, Harvard University Gottfried Noether, University of Connecticut

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