From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of Eugene M. Laska, PhD. Gene Laska was Research Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health, Division of Biostatistics, at New York University. Before moving full time to NYU in 2015 he served as Research Scientist and Director…
The 2025 IMS Council votes are counted and the results are in! We are pleased to announce that the incoming IMS President-elect is Richard Samworth. The new Executive Committee, for August 2025 to August 2026, will be comprised of: Kavita Ramanan (President); Tony Cai (Past President); Richard Samworth (President-elect);…
Trevor Hastie and Hui Zou win 2025 ISI Founders of Statistics Prize
The International Statistical Institute is pleased to announce that Trevor Hastie and Hui Zou have been awarded the 2025 Founders of Statistics Prize for Contemporary Research Contributions. This prestigious award recognizes their influential paper, “Regularization and Variable Selection…
The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science (CWS) celebrated the achievements of its two 2025 Societal Impact Award winners: Shili Lin and Sarah Lotspeich. Dr. Lin is a professor of statistics at the Ohio State University and is recognized for outstanding mentoring of students and junior researchers,…
The Rollo Davidson Trustees announce the award of the 2025 Rollo Davidson Prize to:
Hao Shen (University of Wisconsin) for his deep contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations and the furthering of our understanding of the stochastic Yang-Mills dynamics; and
Eliran Subag (Weizmann Institute) for his deep…