On January 3, 2025, former US President Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science, America’s highest honor for exemplary achievement and leadership in science and technology. Among the medal winners was IMS Fellow Emery Neal Brown.

Emery Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and an anesthesiologist at MGH. Brown received his BA (magna cum laude) in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College, his MA and PhD in statistics from Harvard University, and his MD (magna cum laude) from Harvard Medical School. Brown is an anesthesiologist–statistician recognized for developing signal processing algorithms for neuroscience data analysis and for defining the neurophysiological mechanisms of general anesthesia. Brown has received an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences Sacks Award and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research Award. He is a fellow of the IEEE, the AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. Brown is a member of all three US National Academies: of Medicine, of Sciences and of Engineering.

Read more at https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/emery-neal-brown-gdjast/

Also awarded the National Medal of Science in the same cohort were Ingrid Daubechies and Cynthia Dwork, both well known in our field.