We are pleased to announce the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2026 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award:
Jin-Hong Du,
Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science & Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong
Yu Gui,
Department of Statistics and Data Science, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (PhD institution: Department of Statistics, the University of Chicago)
Subhodh Kotekal,
Norbert Wiener Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reese Pathak,
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
The award will fund their travel to next year’s IMS Annual Meeting, in Salzburg, Austria, July 6–9, 2026. They will each present a paper in the invited session of the IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award.
The next deadline is July 1, 2026; application information is here: https://imstat.org/ims-awards/