IMS Elections

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		2013 Nominees President Elect Nominee Erwin Bolthausen Professor, Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich Education Ph.D. Mathematics, ETH Zurich 1973 Habilitation, Statistics, University of Konstanz 1978 Research Interests Probability theory Random media Previous Service to the Profession Annals of Statistics, Assoc. Editor 1987-1989 Annals of Probability, Assoc. Editor 1988-1993 Annals of Appl. Prob., Assoc. Editor, since 2010 Member of the Council of the IMS, 2003-2007, 2012-present Brief Statement I am very much honoured being proposed as a president- elect of the IMS. The IMS is in a unique position and with a unique responsability with regards to the standards of scientific publishing and the scientific exchange in our fields. Statistical science and probability theory have found new directions under the influence for instance of computer science, or other branches of mathematics, like algebra. For me, it is important to strengthen these interactions, and being open to new developments. It is also important to maintain strong ties between probability theory and statistics. Web http://www.math.uzh.ch/index.php?professur&key1=106 Council Nominees Sourav Chatterjee Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Education Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University (2005) Master of Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (2002) Bachelor of Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (2000) Research Interests Probability theory Mathematical statistics Previous Service to the Profession Associate editor for the Annals of Probability, 2009 -- present Associate editor for Probability Theory and Related Fields, 2011 -- present. Associate editor for Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (B), 2008 -- present. Editor for Sankhya, Series A, 2012 -- present. Brief Statement If elected, my priorities will include: 1. Supporting conferences that encourage interactions between probabilists, statisticians and people from other disciplines. 2. Creating more opportunities for young researchers, such as travel grants and other career support. Web http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~sourav Richard Davis Howard Levene Professor of Statistics, Columbia University Education 1974: BA Mathematics, University of California at San Diego 1979: PhD Mathematics, University of California at San Diego Research Interests Time series analysis Extreme value for stationary sequence and space-time processes Spatial statistics with application to environmental data Applied probability Previous Service to the Profession Editor-in-Chief, Bernoulli (Jan `10– present) Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Probability (Jan ’94–Jan ’00) Associate Editor, J. Statistical Planning and Inference (Jan ’95–Jan ’01) Associate Editor, Proceedings of the American Mathematics Society (Feb ’00– Dec `05) EURANDOM Steering Committee for Financial Stochastics (Sept ’02–Dec `04) Associate Editor, Extremes (Jan ’07 – present) Associate Editor, Bernoulli (Jan ’07 – Dec `08) Editor, Statistical Science (Jan ’08 – Dec `10) Associate Editor, Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (Jan ’93-Jan ’96, Mar `08– Jan `10) Business and Economics Statistics Section, Chair-elect (2009), Chair (2010) Co-organizer (with James Stock and Ruey Tsay) NBER/NSF Workshops in Time Series (2001–present) Brief Statement As the preeminent professional society for statistics and probability, IMS produces and sponsors the leading journals and major conferences in the field. With a rapidly changing research landscape, IMS must be both nimble in reacting quickly to changes and prescient in anticipating structural changes from modes of publication to facilitating cross-cutting research agendas. The strength of IMS is its engaged and dedicated membership of whom so many are willing to commit their time and expertise to the betterment of the society and the profession. As an IMS council member, I would hope to follow in this tradition and provide sensible guidance and advice to the society on which it has been built. In particular, I would like to see IMS strengthen its ties to graduate programs at both the MA and PhD levels with the goal of fostering a broader and more scientifically savvy society. Web http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~rdavis/ Holger Dette Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Education PhD, 1989, Universität Hannover, Germany Habilitation, 1992; Universität Göttingen, Germany Research Interests Design of experiments Nonparametric regression Time series Statistics in finance Random matrices Matrix measures Birth and death processes Approximation theory and orthogonal polynomials Previous Service to the Profession Editor: Metrika (2008 - 2012) Editor: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (2012 - present) Editor: Stat (2012 - present) Associate Editor: Annals of Statistics (1995 - 2007, 2011 - present) Associate Editor: Bernoulli (2013 - present) Associate Editor: International Statistical Review (2011 - present) Associate Editor: Journal of the American Statistical Association (2011- present) Associate Editor: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (2007 - present) Associate Editor: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (1994 - 2011) Associate Editor: Test (2000 - present) Associate Editor: Statistica Sinica (2002 - 2006) Associate Editor: Sankhya (2004 - present) Associate Editor: ESAIM: Probability and Statistics (2005 - present) Associate Editor: Statistics & Probability Letters (2007 - present) Associate Editor: Statistics & Decisions (2007 - present) Brief Statement The IMS plays a major role for the development of Probability and Statistics in the future. My list of priorites for the work in the council is: 1) Promotion of young researchers. 2) Improving the collaboration between probability and statistics. 3) Supporting interactions between IMS and other scientific organisation in mathematics – in particular SIAM. 4) Improving the visibility of our field to other disciplines, where massive and new data structures require the development of new methodology and theory . 5) Support of open access electronic publishing. Web http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mathematik3/en/dette.html Rick Durrett James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics, Duke U Education Ph.D., Stanford 1976 in Operations Research Research Interests Stochastic spatial models Population genetics Cancer modeling Dynamics of and on random graphs Previous Service to the Profession 18 years on the editorial boards of AoP and AoAP including three years as editor of AoAp World Congress of Probability. 2008 – wrote NSF proposal for support of young researchers and supervised the selection process. 2012 -- organizing committee. The nominating committee in 2010-2011 is one of many that I have served on, but I don’t put that stuff on my CV so I can’t give more detail. Brief Statement I think I will do a good job representing the interests of probabilists on the council. Web http://www.math.duke.edu/~rtd/ Steffen Lauritzen Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford Education cand.stat. 1972 (MSc) lic.stat. 1975 (PhD) dr.scient. (DSc) 1981, University of Copenhagen Research Interests Graphical models Markov theory Structure estimation Local computation Applications in forensic science Statistical theory Previous Service to the Profession Associate editor of the Annals of Statistics 1983-1988 Chairman of programme committee for the 16th European Meeting of Statisticians, Marburg, Fed. Rep. Germany, 1984 Member of the Research Section Committee of the Royal Statistical Society, 1992-1995 Chairman of Steering Committee for Scientific Programme on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems under the European Science Foundation, 1997-2000 Editor of The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 1998-2000. Biometrika Trustee 2010- Brief Statement If elected, my efforts in council would be to support the IMS in continuing an excellent publication policy, high quality scientific meetings, and an emphasis on giving the next generation of statisticians worldwide a natural scientific home in the IMS. Web http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~steffen/ Susan Murphy HE Robbins Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan Education B.S. Louisiana State University 1980 Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1989 Research Interests Sequential decision making: Statistical Reinforcement Learning Clinical trial design: Development of Dynamic Treatment Regimes (e.g. sequences of individualized treatments) Interdisciplinary research: addictions and behavior change Previous Service to the Profession IMS Program Secretary 2000-3 Editor, Annals of Statistics 2007-9 SAMSI National Advisory Committee 2008- 13(Co-Chair 2012- 13) Associate Editor, Annals of Statistics, 1996-2000 Member of the National Research Council Oversight Committee on the Handling of Missing Data in Clinical Trials 2009-10 Associate Editor, Biometrics, 1997-2000 Brief Statement It has always been a joy and honor to serve IMS and it would be continue to be an honor to do so if elected. I would have two primary goals in serving on the council. Most importantly I would seek opportunities for IMS to facilitate the rapid movement of ideas/concepts back and forth between emerging applications and theoretical statistics/probability. Secondly I would work to enlarge the role of young statisticians and probabilists as well as statisticians and probabilists living outside of North American and Western Europe in IMS. Web http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~samurphy/ Leonid Mytnik Professor, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion --- Israel Institute of Technology Education MSc, Technion, 1993 PhD, Technion, 1996 Research Interests Interacting particle systems Stochastic partial differential equations Measure-valued processes Previous Service to the Profession Annals of Applied Probability, Associate Editor, 2003-2009 Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Associate Editor, 2005-2012 Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincar\'{e}s, Associate Editor, 2011- Electronic Journal of Probability, Associate Editor, 2012- Electronic Journal of Probability, Associate Editor, 2012- Brief Statement IMS plays a leading role in the development of Probability and Statistics throughout the world. I believe that one of the most important tasks of IMS is supporting of young researchers. If I am elected, one of my main priorities will be to promote special programs and meetings for the young researchers as well as to encourage and help junior scientists to attend major conferences in the field. I will also strongly support the open access publishing since this is of vital importance for making the further progress in the area. Web http://ie.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/leonid0.html James Norris Professor, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge Education BA 1981 University of Oxford DPhil 1985 University of Oxford Research Interests Stochastic analysis Stochastic modelling Particle systems Coagulation and aggregation Previous Service to the Profession Associate Editor PTRF 2000- Associate Editor Potential Analysis 2000- Associate Editor ESAIM Probability and Statistics 2001- Organiser SPA 2001 Committee for Conferences on Stochastic Processes 2001-, Chair 2010-12 IMS Committee on Special Lectures 2010-11 IMS Nominating Committee 2011-12 Brief Statement IMS plays an important role through its international perspective, in the high standards and availability of its journals, in recognising excellence through prizes and special lectures, in its sponsorship of meetings and in its support for young researchers. In Council I would act to support the delivery of these benefits to our community, which enhance its standing and effectiveness in the wider world. Web http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~james/ Akimichi Takemura Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo Education Ph.D. (Statistics), September 1982, Department of Statistics, Stanford University Research Interests Algebraic statistics Multivariate analysis Distribution theory Previous Service to the Profession Executive Director of Japan Statistical Society, September 2004 -- August 2006 President of Japan Statistical Society 2011 -- 2012 Chair of local organizing committee for the second IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting, July 2012 Associate Editor of Journal of Multivariate Analysis, October 2002 --- present Associate Editor of Annals of Institute of Statistical Mathematics, January 2003 -- present Brief Statement Throughout my career I have been promoting cooperation of statistical societies in the East Asia region, in particular among Japan, Korea and China. In 2012 I was the chairman of local organizing committee of the 2nd IMS Asia Pacific Rim Region meeting. The meeting witnessed the fast growth of statistics in this region. I would like to contribute to the further growth of IMS in this region. Web http://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/atstat/athp/ Jonathan Taylor Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University Education B. Sc., McGill University (1997) Ph. D., McGill University (2011) Research Interests Geometric methods in statistics Smooth stochastic processes Optimization methods in statistics (consistency, inference, computation) Multiple comparisons problems with dependent data Extreme value theory Previous Service to the Profession Current Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics Scandinavian Journal of Statistics IMS Nominations Committee Brief Statement The growth of data-intensive scientific applications and big data in industry has greatly increased the importance of probability and statistics to other disciplines. I believe the IMS, as the world's leading society committed to both probability and statistics, has an important role to play in this outreach. If elected, I am committed to ensuring that probability and statistics' role in science, society and computing continues to grow. I am also committed to encouraging the continued communication of research between the theoretical and applied constituencies within the IMS. Jane-Ling Wang Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis Education Ph.D. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1982 M.A. Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1978 B.S. Mathematics, National Taiwan University, 1975 Research Interests Functional data analysis, longitudinal data analysis Dimensional reduction methods Survival analysis, joint modeling of survival and longitudinal data Applications: Aging research, medicine, and neuroscience. Previous Service to the Profession Associate Editor, Biometrika, since 2012 Co-Editor, Oxford Statistical Science Series, Oxford University Press, 2010-2015 Associate Editor, Bernoulli, since 2010 Member, Committee of COPSS Award, since 2011 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Committee on Nominations, 2010-2011 Program Co-leader, SAMSI program on “Analysis of Object Data”, 2010-2011 Chair, Nonparametric Section of the American Statistical Association, 2010 Council Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2008-2011, 2002-2005 President, International Chinese Statistical Association, 2008 Associate Editor, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 2006-2010 Co-Chair Editor, Statistica Sinica, 2002-2005 IMS Program Chair, 2003 Joint Statistical Meeting Brief Statement With 2013 as the International Year of Statistics, the role and contributions of statistical science is being more broadly recognized and redefined. Statistical science, including probability, is expanding fast, increasingly cutting across boundaries and including data science. The IMS being the nurture ground of Statistical Science is once again well positioned to lead these exciting developments. One challenge facing the statistical community is the training of students and young researchers. What kind of curriculum best prepares the next generation of statistical scientists, and what kind of training/retraining is necessary to prepare researchers for the challenges to come? These are issues that are faced by virtually all educational and research institutions that could be addressed by the Council. The IMS should continue to be the leading platform to promote Statistical Science and to reach out to other communities that participate in the data science developments. Web http://anson.ucdavis.edu/~wang/ Ofer Zeitouni Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science and University of Minnesota Education Ph.D., Technion, 1986 M.Sc., Technion, 1983 B.Sc., Technion, 1980 Research Interests Probability theory, including: Motion in random media Random matrices Random walks and branching processes Previous Service to the Profession Editor, Annals of Probability, 2009--2011 Associate Editor, Annals of Probability, 2003--2008 Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Probability, 2003--2008 Editor, Stochastic Processes and their applications, 2000--2002 Associate Editor, Stochastic Processes and their applications, 1996--2001 Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1991--1993 Brief Statement The IMS has served the profession by establishing and maintaining excellent publications. The counsel should follow the fast pace of changes in the academic publishing world and make sure the society publications continue to be accessible and of excellent quality. In addition, I see the role of the council as promoting and maintaining interactions between probability and statistics, and between these disciplines and other mathematical and physical sciences. Finally, activities intended for young researchers, especially in the form of special meetings, should be encouraged, while keeping a solid financial foundation for the future. Web http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~zeitouni/