IMS awards
In the June/July 2026 IMS Bulletin you’ll find photos of the 24 winners of the New Researcher Travel Awards and 22 winners of the Hannan Graduate Student Travel Awards.
Each IMS New Researcher Travel Award provides funding to an IMS member who has received their PhD within the past…
Cun-Hui Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University, is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the American Statistical Association. His research interests include high-dimensional data, machine learning, empirical Bayes, time series, nonparametric methods, multivariate analysis, survival data and biostatistics, functional MRI, closed loop diabetes control,…
Philip A. Ernst is Chair in Statistics and Royal Society Wolfson Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. He earned his PhD in Statistics in 2014 from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include exact distribution theory, mathematical finance, optimal stopping, queueing systems,…
Jelle Goeman is professor of biostatistics at Leiden University Medical Center. He obtained his PhD at Leiden University in 2006 under supervision of Hans van Houwelingen and Sara van de Geer. His research interest is in high-dimensional data, in particular in testing and multiple testing problems that arise in such…
Lester Mackey is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he develops machine learning methods, models, and theory for large-scale learning tasks driven by applications from weather and climate forecasting, healthcare, and the social good. Lester co-organized the second place team in the Netflix Prize competition; won the Prize4Life…