The United States National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 120 members and 25 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected this year bring the total number of active members to 2,705 and the total number of international members to 557. (International members are members of the Academy with citizenship outside the United States.)

Among the new NAS members are five IMS members and/or Fellows:

Peter L. Bartlett: professor emeritus, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Jianqing Fan: Frederick L. Moore ’18
Professor of Finance, professor of statistics and machine learning, and professor of operations research and financial engineering, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and Department of Statistics, Princeton University

Andrew Gelman: Higgins Professor of Statistics and professor of political science, Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University, New York City

Elizaveta (Liza) Levina: Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Art B. Owen: professor of statistics and Max H. Stein Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University (International Member: Canadian)

The US National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and—with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine—provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.