The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) has announced the winners of its Presidents’ Award, Scott Award and Distinguished Achievement Award.

COPSS Presidents’ Award: Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania, “For statistical foundations of generative AI including the watermarking, alignment, and rankings of LLMs; for advances in privacy preserving data analysis applied to the 2020 US Decennial Census; for improving peer review in machine learning; for foundational work in convex optimization; for wide‑ranging contributions to deep learning theory and high-dimensional inference.”

Elizabeth L. Scott Award: Amy Herring, Duke University, “For her outstanding leadership in statistical societies, for supporting the careers of many early career researchers, for being a conscience in our community, for sustained and manifold contributions to Bayesian statistics, and for impactful global collaborations in maternal and child health.”

COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship: Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, “For original and path-breaking contributions in the theory and practice of statistics, including nonparametric, causal, and Bayesian inference; for advancing methods in machine learning, genetics and astrostatistics; as an outstanding expositor of statistical thinking; and for innovative textbooks on all of statistics.”

The awards will be presented at JSM in Boston, August 1–6, 2026.