The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2026 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Kaizheng Wang.

Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. The IMS Committee on Travel Awards selected him: “For seminal contributions to learning from heterogeneous data, particularly in developing sharp theory and efficient methods for latent variable models and in establishing principled approaches for adaptive data integration under complex distribution shifts. For broad contributions to transfer learning, clustering, and
uncertainty quantification.”