Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has received the 2026 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Wei receives the award “for contributions to statistical theory and methodology in learning from high-dimensional and structured data; for advancing the statistical foundations of reinforcement learning and diffusion models; and for fostering the integration of statistics and machine learning in genomics applications.” The Peter…

The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2026 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Kaizheng Wang. Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. The IMS Committee on Travel Awards selected him: “For seminal contributions to learning from heterogeneous data, particularly in developing sharp theory…

A new issue of Annals of Statistics has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aos/aos_54_1/aos_54_1.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

A new issue of Annals of Probability has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aop/aop_54_2/aop_54_2.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…

A new issue of Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré has been published. You can get a summary in PDF-format at: https://www.imstat.org/publications/aihp/aihp_62_1/aihp_62_1.pdf If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at: https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…