IMS Fellow Bani K. Mallick, a professor in the department of statistics at Texas A&M University, was recently designated a Regents Professor by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The Regents Professor Award, established in 1996, honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to their university, their field, and the people of Texas.

Bani Mallick has been a faculty member at Texas A&M since 1998 and is widely regarded as a pioneer in Bayesian nonparametric regression and classification. He served as the director and principal investigator of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science Institute of Data Science Phase 1, and he currently directs the Center for Statistical Bioinformatics at Texas A&M. Over the course of his career, Mallick has developed novel methodology and theory that has become the foundation for interdisciplinary research in myriad fields. His work in Bayesian modeling and computation has garnered support from the NSF, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, and US Department of Defense. Mallick is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Royal Statistical Society, as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. His past honors include the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Indian Statistical Association, the Fulbright–Nehru Distinguished Chair award for 2017–18, the Texas A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards in Research in 2006, and in Graduate Mentoring in 2019, and the University of Connecticut Department of Statistics Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2020–21. He is currently the joint editor-in-chief of the SIAM/ASA journal Uncertainty Quantification.

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