From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Innovative usages of natural experiments and causal inference in statistics and data science
Natural experiments are an ingenious way to estimate causal effects in situations where randomised experiments are not possible. They have emerged as a standard topic in statistics, data science and econometrics, with The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in…
Three leading mid-career statisticians have been announced as winners of the David Cox Medal for Statistics, awarded for the first time in 2025 to commemorate the work of the late world-leading statistician and former IMS president, Sir David Cox.
The three winners are Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen of the University of…
The winner of this year’s IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award is Bingxin Zhao, assistant professor in Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The citation reads, “For seminal contributions to imaging genetics in neuroscience and genetics and for significant theoretical contributions to statistical…
The 17th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies has been awarded jointly to IMS Fellow Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley, and National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, INRIA, Paris) and to Anil Jain (Michigan State University), for what the committee…
On January 3, 2025, former US President Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science, America’s highest honor for exemplary achievement and leadership in science and technology. Among the medal winners was IMS Fellow Emery Neal Brown.
Emery Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of…