We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 IMS Hall Early Career Prize, the IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award, and the IMS Carver Medal.

Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has received the 2026 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Wei receives the award “for contributions to statistical theory and methodology in learning from high-dimensional and structured data; for advancing the statistical foundations of reinforcement learning and diffusion models; and for fostering the integration of statistics and machine learning in genomics applications.” The Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize annually recognizes one researcher within the first eight years of completing their doctoral degree. Dr. Wei’s outstanding achievements recognize potential to shape the future of statistics. Her dedication and expertise have positioned her as an emerging leader in the field, and her innovative contributions continue to push the boundaries of statistical research. Yuting Wei will receive her award in the IMS awards session at the IMS annual meeting in Salzburg, Austria, July 6–9, 2026.

The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference (held this year at the UMass Amherst Campus, from July 29–August 1, 2026, directly preceding the Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston; see the New Researchers Group update on page 4). 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.”

We are also pleased to announce that Ming Yuan has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 IMS Harry C. Carver Medal. Dr. Yuan, who is Professor of Statistics at Columbia University, is honored with this award “for his outstanding service to the IMS in multiple capacities, including serving as Co-Editor of The Annals of Statistics, IMS Program Secretary, and member of numerous IMS committees, as well as for his broad and sustained professional service to the statistical community.” He will receive the Carver Medal at the 2027 JSM in Chicago.