Prof. Chatterjee earns President's Award for Excellence and promotion to Professor

Associate Professor Shirshendu Chatterjee was awarded the 2026 President’s Award for Excellence. The award recognizes his significant scholarly contributions as well as his excellence as a mentor and an instructor. In addition, the President just approved his promotion to Professor.

Professor Chatterjee’s research has made significant advances in theoretical mathematics and he has used his mathematical approach to tackle many real-world challenges. In addition, he is extremely prolific, having published 24 research papers (some still being prepared for publication) since his 2021 promotion to Associate Professor.

Prof. Chatterjee has done significant work in theoretical probability and statistics, and has published recently in numerous prestigious journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association, Communications in Mathematical Physics, and Annals of Probability. As a result of his work, he has been continuously funded since 2018 by grants from the NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences, with awards totaling approximately $400,000. These awards are currently very competitive, and so this speaks highly of the significance of Chatterjee's research.

In addition to his theoretical work, Professor Chatterjee applies his discipline to science (including to biology, epidemiology, and atmospheric science) and to many other areas (such as agriculture, cyber security, economics, public health, and political science). It is remarkable that he successfully collaborates across vastly different fields.

Last year, he won a “Best Paper Award” from the International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking 2025 conference, and in 2023 he won the “Outstanding Article Award” from Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

Professor Chatterjee is dedicated to integrating students into his high-level research, especially students in our M.S. program in mathematics. Recently, he has mentored students in projects such as:

• “Neural networks-based algorithms and applications” (2025)
• “Change-point estimation using Graph Neural network-based method” (2025)
• “Studying effects of socio-economic status on human activities during Covid pandemic” (2025)
• “A simulation study seeking optimal economic control of an aerially dispersed plant pathogen” (2024)
• “Math models for Epidemiology” (2023)
• “Network Inference Based on Partially Observed Data” (2022)
• “Change-point Detection Methods” (2022)
• “Topics of Statistical Machine Learning” (2022)

Both the promotion and the award are well-deserved!

Congratulations, Prof. Chatterjee!

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