The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University invites nominations for the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation. To promote the dissemination of statistical innovation, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded in even-numbered years to a North American statistician whose outstanding research contributions include innovations that have had impact on practice and whose PhD degree is at least 25 years old.

The Parzen Prize is awarded by the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University and is selected by the members of the Parzen Prize Committee (consisting of three internal faculty members and two external members). The prize consists of an honorarium of $1000 and travel to College Station, TX, to present a lecture at the Prize Ceremony.

Nominations for the 2024 Parzen Prize should include a letter describing the nominee’s outstanding contributions to high impact innovative research in statistics, a current curriculum vita, and two supporting letters. Nominations should be submitted by March 29, 2024, to Samiran Sinha, the Chair of the 2024 Parzen Prize Committee, via e-mail to sinha@stat.tamu.edu or to:

Professor Samiran Sinha,

Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University,

TAMU 3143, College Station, Texas 77843-3143.

For more information on the Parzen Prize, please visit http://www.stat.tamu.edu/about/awards-and-prizes/parzenprize/.

The previous Parzen Prize winners are:

2022 Herman Chernoff and Peter McCullagh

2018 Bin Yu

2016 William Cleveland

2014 Trevor Hastie

2012 Adrian Raftery

2010 Roger Koenker

2008 Nancy Reid and Marvin Zelen

2006 Alan Gelfand

2004 Jerome H. Friedman

2002 David R. Brillinger

2000 C.R. Rao

1998 Bradley Efron

1996 Donald B. Rubin

1994 Grace Wahba