IMS Fellow Peihua Qiu has been named the recipient of the 2024 ASQ Shewhart Medal. The citation reads: “For seminal research in developing new quality control methodologies; for exploring new applications of process control charts; for leadership in promoting quality and statistics in healthcare and biomedical studies; and for outstanding editorial service to ASQ-sponsored journals.”

Peihua Qiu is Dean’s Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Society for Quality, and the IMS, as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served as associate editor for a number of top statistical journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Biometrics, and as the editor of Technometrics.