Congratulations Liqian Zhang

We congratulate resident member Liqian Zhang, recipient of the 2023 Maurice H. Belz scholarship at The University of Melbourne.

Established in memory of Maurice Henry Belz, who, in 1948, became the first head of the Department of Statistics at The University of Melbourne and who was the foundation Professor of Statistics in 1955. This award is granted to students achieving the highest aggregate score in the second year subjects Probability and Statistics. Students are nominated for these awards by the University teaching staff.

After studying in the Master of Data Scvience last year, I transferred to MSc, majoring in Statistics and Stochastic Processess. I am honoured to receive the Maurice Belz Scholarship, named after Professor Belz who drew inspiration from music and drama in his work on statistics. Parallelly, piano and poetry, programming plus puzzles profoundly propel my progress in pondering my project.

The scholarship will provide a financial boost for an extra semester of study due to my transfer, to my passionate commitment to exploring the berry esseen bounds for studentized nonlinear statistics, where Stein's method is employed to quantitatively tackle the normal approximation.

Liqian Zhang