IMS members Jay Bartroff, Professor and Associate Chair of the Statistics and Data Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin, and his former PhD advisee, Dr. Jinlin Song, Analysis Group, Inc., have received the 17th Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis for their 2020 paper, “Sequential Tests of Multiple Hypotheses Controlling False Discovery and Non-discovery Rates” (https://doi.org/10.1080/07474946.2020.1726686).

The award was delayed due to the pandemic, but their achievements were celebrated at the International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies in Orem, Utah, in May 2024.

The Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis, established in 2004, honors the best publication in Sequential Analysis journal each year.