Lai Kow Chan, an IMS Fellow with expertise in statistical quality control and a visionary academic leader, died in Hong Kong on December 23, 2020, aged 80.
Lai was born in Hong Kong on November 5, 1940. His first university degree was from Hong Kong Baptist College in 1962, after…
Arthur Cohen, a brilliant applied and mathematical statistician and a wonderful colleague and leader, passed away on July 26, 2021.
Arthur spent his professional career at Rutgers, from 1963 until he traded his title of Distinguished Professor for Emeritus in 2017. A world-renowned leader in decision theory, he was known…
Charles (Chuck) Joel Stone, emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, died on April 16, 2019, at the age of 82. He was survived by his wife Barbara and two sons (and their families). Chuck received many honors during his career, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1980.…
S. James (Jim) Press, a distinguished professor emeritus of statistics at the University of California, Riverside, passed away November 25, 2020, just shy of his 90th birthday.
The field of statistics has lost one of its greats in the area of Bayesian multivariate analysis. Jim’s fundamental research contributions were in…
Ming Li, who is the chair of the committee for the ASA’s Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences (SPES) Award, writes:
We received seven nominations for the SPES Award this year. The SPES Award Committee reviewed the nomination letters and support materials and chose the winner for this year to be…