From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Aleksandra (Seša) Slavković, Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean for Research in Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, has been selected by the American Statistical Association to present the 2025 ASA Links Lecture, “Praivacy (noun) Pronounced: /‘prā-və-sē/ Balancing Data Confidentiality and Utility,” on January 23, 2026, from noon…
Professor Klaus Krickeberg, who was an IMS Fellow, passed away peacefully on November 27, in Bielefeld, Germany, where he had resided in recent years. He was 96 years old. The funeral service took place on December 8 in Bielefeld. Born in Berlin in 1929, Klaus Krickeberg held professorships in…
Lathisms is an organization that supports and brings visibility to Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians. As part of this, Lathisms offers scholarships to mathematics students, meant to help with costs that pose a barrier to the success and advancement of the awardee in their pursuit of a career in the…
Contributing Editor David J. Hand, Imperial College London, returns to his Hand Writing column with some thoughts on the unglamorous but fundamentally important topic of data quality.
Countless articles and many books have been written on the topic of data quality. High quality data is clearly central to…
Yu Gui is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, working with Professors Dylan Small and Zhimei Ren. Yu obtained his PhD in Statistics at the University of Chicago, advised by Professors Rina Foygel Barber and Cong Ma.…