From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Bani K. Mallick has been promoted to distinguished professor in the department of statistics at Texas A&M University. Mallick is a pioneer researcher in the field of Bayesian nonparametric regression and classification and the author of Bayesian Methods of Nonlinear Classification and Regression. He does major collaborative research with scientists…
Dipak K. Dey, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the Department of Statistics, has stepped down as head of the department and has joined the administration of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn as associate dean (Physical Sciences). In addition to his duties overseeing the Physics, Chemistry,…
Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University, has been voted the next President-elect of the American Statistical Association. She will serve as ASA President during 2012.
IMS Fellow Marie Davidian is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics at NCSU. She is a Fellow of ASA and the American Association for the…
Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington, USA, has been elected the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award. He was nominated for this prestigious award by Prof. Tilmann Gneiting, University of Heidelberg, Germany. The Humboldt Research Award is conferred in recognition of lifetime achievements in research. In addition, the awardee is…
Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany. The honorary doctorate is in recognition of his work in the social sciences and economics, and in particular, for his…