IMS Fellow Peter Rousseeuw has been named the recipient of the 2024 Gottfried E. Distinguished Scholar Award of the ASA. The citation reads: “Dr. Peter Rousseeuw has made significant contributions to robust estimation, innovative model-free cluster analysis, and the development of statistical depth functions. His work, renowned for advancing methodology, creating algorithms, and its broad application, has significantly shaped the landscape of statistical analysis, demonstrating the profound impact of his research on both theoretical and practical aspects of nonparametric statistics.” Peter Rousseeuw is Emeritus Professor of the University of Leuven, Belgium. He will present a talk on “Robustness and Distance Correlation” in the Gottfried E. Noether Lectures session at the 2024 JSM in Portland, which takes place on Wednesday, August 7, 10:30–12:20.

The 2024 Gottfried E. Noether Early Career Scholar Award presentations, in the same session as the Distinguished Scholar award lecture, will be by Edgar Dobriban (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) and Lucas Janson (Harvard University). Dobriban’s talk will be “On the role of nonparametric statistics in the age of AI” and Janson’s talk title is “Conditional Independence Testing and Conformal Inference with Adaptively Collected Data.” The session program is at https://ww3.aievolution.com/JSMAnnual2024/index.cfm?do=ev.viewEv&ev=1545.