The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, has announced the 2023 class of AAAS Fellows, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. This acknowledges their contributions to advancing science and its applications in service to society.

Since 1874, AAAS has annually recognized scientists and others across various disciplines for their accomplishments, including pioneering research, leadership within their field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations, and advancing public understanding of science. The 2023 class, announced as the Fellows program celebrates its 150th anniversary, is comprised of 502 scientists, engineers and innovators across 24 AAAS disciplinary Sections.

Among the new AAAS Fellows are several IMS members and/or IMS Fellows. Thomas Kailath, Stanford University, was elected in the Section on Engineering. In the Section on Statistics, the IMS members elected were T. Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut; Len Stefanski, North Carolina State University; Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri–Columbia; and Tian Zheng, Columbia University in the City of New York. The others elected in the Section on Statistics were Rebecca A. Betensky, New York University School of Global Public Health, Daniel Gillen, University of California, Irvine, and Amita Manatunga, Emory University.

The new Fellows will receive a certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin (representing science and engineering, respectively) to commemorate their election and will be celebrated at a forum on September 21, 2024. That evening, AAAS will also celebrate the program’s 150th anniversary at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The 2023 Fellows class is also featured in the “AAAS News & Notes” section of the journal Science in April 2024.

The complete class list is at https://www.aaas.org/fellows/2023-fellows.