We are pleased to announce the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2024 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Filippo Ascolani, Bocconi University; Chanwoo Lee, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Yuling Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The award will fund their travel to next year’s IMS Annual Meeting, which takes place at the Bernoulli–IMS 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, in Bochum, Germany. They will each present a paper in the IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award invited session.

Filippo Ascolani’s talk will be titled, “Full-range borrowing of information priors.” Chanwoo Lee will be talking about “Statistical and computational rates in high rank tensor estimation.” Finally, Yuling Yan’s paper is titled, “Learning Gaussian Mixtures Using the Wasserstein–Fisher–Rao Gradient Flow.”

Filippo said, “I am deeply honoured to be receiving this prestigious award, and I hope I will prove to be worthy of such recognition. A large part of this award goes to my PhD advisors, Antonio Lijoi and Igor Prünster, whom I cannot thank enough. I am looking forward to meeting the IMS community in Bochum!”

Chanwoo added, “I’m truly honored to receive this award, and I want to express my gratitude to everyone who has supported me. In particular, I would like to thank my advisor Miaoyan Wang for her encouragement and support during my PhD. I am also excited to attend the meeting, connect with researchers and share their insights.”

Yuling is also “deeply honored” to receive the award. He thanked his advisors, Yuxin Chen and Jianqing Fan, “for their unwavering support throughout my PhD journey at Princeton. This award is as much theirs as it is mine. I am looking forward to attending the Bernoulli–IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics, an invaluable opportunity to engage with and learn from the leading experts in the field.”

Apply for a PhD Student travel award for JSM2025

If you’re a PhD student, the deadline for the 2025 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award (for the session at JSM2025) is May 1, 2024; application information is at https://imstat.org/ims-awards/ims-lawrence-d-brown-ph-d-student-award/

Call for papers: 2024 Bernoulli–IMS 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics

If you’d also like to present your research at the World Congress next August, read the call for abstracts for contributed talks, posters, and organized contributed paper sessions on page 3 of the October/November 2023 Bulletin, or at https://www.bernoulli-ims-worldcongress2024.org/