From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Patrícia Gonçalves received her PhD in 2007 from IMPA, Brazil. She is currently a full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. She works in the field of interacting particle systems and her work has particularly focused on their scaling limits, namely on hydrodynamic limits, fluctuations and large deviations. …
Jing Lei obtained his PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2010 and joined Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. He is currently a professor of Statistics & Data Science at CMU. His research areas include nonparametric and predictive inference such as conformal prediction and cross-validation, high-dimensional inference, network data analysis,…
Chanwoo Lee received his PhD at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2023, advised by Dr. Miaoyan Wang. Before joining UW–Madison, he received a BS in Mathematical Science and Statistics in 2018 from Seoul National University, Korea. He is broadly interested in statistics, machine learning, and optimization. He has worked on developing …
The International Prize in Statistics—one of the highest honors in statistics—is awarded every two years to an individual or team for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology, and human welfare.
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 International Prize in Statistics. When choosing a nominee for…
Our contributing columnist Ruobin Gong, writes:
“Correlation is not causation” is among the most widely recited tenets of statistical literacy. It is somewhat odd for a concept to be better known for what it is not than for what it is. For correlation, the statistician is quick to warn of…