Peter Whittle elected foreign member of National Academy of Engineering
Among the 80 new members and 22 foreign members elected to the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is Peter Whittle, Emeritus Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge, UK. Peter was elected for “contributions…
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is the first female Director of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), where she is a professor in the Machine Intelligence Unit, specializing in computational biology. Her research is mainly in the areas of evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, machine learning and bioinformatics. As ISI Director she oversees the functioning…
Professor Geetha Ramachandran, Professor of Statistics at the California State University at Sacramento passed away on February 18; she was 67. Professor Ramachandran worked in the areas of sampling and complex surveys and obtained her PhD from the Indian Statistical Institute, where she was a close academic associate of Debabrata…
On 9 January 2016, in Melbourne, Australia, the statistics community lost one of its greatest statisticians. Peter Hall was born in Sydney, Australia, to William Hall and distinguished radio astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott. He earned his degrees from the University of Sydney, the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of…
First International Prize in Statistics
Nominations are open for the first International Prize in Statistics, to be awarded at the ISI World Statistics Congress in Marrakech in July, 2017. The purpose of the Prize is to call public attention to the important role that statistics, data analysis, probability, and understanding…