Richard Olshen, 1942–2023

IMS Fellow Richard Olshen passed away on November 8. He was Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford Medicine. Among his honors and awards, he was a Fellow of ASA, IEEE, and the AAAS, and was a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. Olshen’s research was applications of statistics to medicine and biology, focusing on tree-structured algorithms for classification, regression, survival analysis, and clustering.

An obituary will appear in a forthcoming issue.