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The Statistics community lost a luminary with the sad demise of Professor Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee on June 18, 2024, at the age of 89. He leaves behind his son and daughter and two grandchildren, as well as numerous students, friends and admirers. A doyen among Indian statisticians, Professor Chatterjee was…
Professor Richard Allen Olshen passed away on November 8, 2023.
Professor Olshen will be forever remembered for his pioneering research in the field of statistics and his unyielding passion for academia, especially to Stanford University. He played a significant role in advancing statistical learning, notably through his influential work on…
We are saddened to report that Wolfgang Wefelmeyer lost his life after a road accident in January 2024, at the age of just 74.
Wolfgang Wefelmeyer spent most of his career at the University of Cologne in Germany. He studied Mathematics there and stayed on as a postgraduate under the…
Dr. Anant Madhav Kshirsagar, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biostatistics, School of Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, died on June 20, 2023, at Ann Arbor. His career was exceptional from the beginning. He passed his matriculation examination at the age of 12 from Sangli, a small town…
Alan Geoffrey Hawkes died on 9 November 2023. He was Emeritus Professor at the Hawkes Centre for Empirical Finance at the School of Management of Swansea University in Wales.
Swansea University has a webpage with a short, but comprehensive, biography: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/a.g.hawkes/. There we learn that he joined Swansea in…