From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
IMS Fellow Marc Hallin, professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles, was honored recently with the Pierre-Simon de Laplace Prize, the highest scientific distinction awarded by the French Statistical Society (Société française de Statistique, SfS). It is awarded every three years.
Pascal Massart writes, “A prominent figure of…
Nozer Darabsha Singpurwalla, 83, passed away on July 22, 2022 at his home in Washington DC, surrounded by family. He was born in Hubli, India. As a young man, Nozer immigrated to the United States, where he obtained a MS in Engineering from Rutgers University, and a PhD in…
It is more than four years since two of Anirban DasGupta’s close colleagues, Jayanta Ghosh and Herman Rubin, passed away. He knew both well, beyond the level of being “just” colleagues, and he shares a few cherished personal memories that we hope will be of interest to readers:
Jayanta Ghosh…
Daniela Witten wins the prestigious 2022 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Daniela Witten is a professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics. She develops statistical machine learning methods for high-dimensional data. Much of her work is motivated by applications in genomics…
We introduce a new section in which IMS members are invited to propose new research ideas or directions. These do not need to be formally/provably absolutely new, but it’s an opportunity to emphasize the benefit of an idea for the research community. The purpose is twofold: to gauge the research …