New Researcher Travel Awards: 16 winners

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards for 2025. Each award provides funding to an IMS member who has received their PhD within the past five years, to attend any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting where they will present a paper or poster.

The following IMS members received the 2025 IMS New Researcher Travel Awards:

Jin-Hong Du, Carnegie Mellon University

Larry Han, Northeastern University

Jennifer Noelle Kampe, Duke University

Subhodh Kotekal, The University of Chicago

Xiang Li, University of Pennsylvania

Jing Ouyang, The University of Hong Kong

Chan Park, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Heejun Shin, Harvard University

Yan Sun, University of Pennsylvania

Edric Tam, Stanford University

Jiajun Tang, University of Pennsylvania

Lu Xia, Michigan State University

Han Yan, Peking University

Yichen Zhang, Purdue University

Yidong Zhou, University of California, Davis

Yichen Zhu, Bocconi University

Hannan Graduate Student Travel Awards: 20 winners

The IMS is also pleased to announce these winners of the 2025 Hannan Graduate Student Travel Awards. The award recipients, who are IMS members, can use the funds to attend any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting.

The award was created in memory of Professor James Hannan (1922–2010), who was a Fellow of the IMS. He received a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1953 (with research in compound decision theory under Herbert Robbins), and was a faculty member at Michigan State University from 1953–2002. For more about his career, see “A Conversation with James Hannan” and his IMS Bulletin obituary.

The 2025 winners are:

William Bekerman, University of Pennsylvania

Soham Bonnerjee, University of Chicago

Arhit Chakrabarti, Texas A&M University

Elaine Kuanjung Chiu, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Yizhe Ding, The Pennsylvania State University

Lorenzo Ghilotti, University of Milano-Bicocca

Soham Ghosh, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Lin Gui, The University of Chicago

Jikai Jin, Stanford University

Wenbo Jing, New York University

Takuya Koriyama, University of Chicago

Yi Liu, North Carolina State University

Ziyi Liu, University of Toronto

Tianyi Ma, University of Cambridge

Xinran Miao, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jingkun Qiu, Peking University

Ziyi Song, University of California, Irvine

Runshi Tang, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bohan Wu, Columbia University

Huali Zhao, Tsinghua University

Are you a grad student or new researcher? Apply for a travel award for next year!

If you are a New Researcher (i.e. you received your PhD in the past five years), you can apply for a 2026 IMS New Researcher Travel Award, to attend any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting where you will present a paper or poster. Applications for the 2026 IMS New Researcher Travel Awards are due by February 1, 2026. Details about the award can be found at https://imstat.org/ims-awards/ims-new-researcher-travel-award/

The Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award is open to IMS student members. Applications for next year’s awards must also be submitted by February 1, 2026. For more information about the Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award, please visit the IMS awards page at https://imstat.org/ims-awards/ims-hannan-graduate-student-travel-award/