The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability has announced that the Ethel Newbold Prize for 2025 is awarded to Po‑Ling Loh, University of Cambridge, UK. Po‑Ling Loh, who was elected an IMS Fellow this year, is a Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics and a Fellow of St John’s College. She joined Cambridge in 2021, following academic appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Columbia University. She earned her PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2014.

Her research interests include high‑dimensional statistics, robustness, and differential privacy. She has received several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, the IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award, Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize; she is also a Hertz Fellow. Among her service to the profession, Po-Ling is the statistics editor for the IMS–Cambridge University Press Textbooks/Monographs series, and the area chair for the Annals of Applied Statistics; she was elected to the IMS Council this year, and has previously served on the IMS committees on Special Lectures, on Nominations, and on New Researchers.

The Ethel Newbold Prize is to be awarded biennially to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics, and/or excellence in research that links developments in a substantive field to new advances in statistics. As part of the Ethel Newbold award, Po‑Ling will be invited to give a talk at the next Bernoulli–IMS World Congress, which will be in Singapore in 2028.