IMS awards
Axel Munk is the founder and director of the Felix-Bernstein Institute for Mathematical Statistics in the Biosciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Moreover, he is a Max Planck fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry where he is the head of the research group for Statistical Inverse…
Xin Bing is a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Cornell University, advised jointly by Florentina Bunea and Marten Wegkamp. Before moving to Cornell, he received a BS in Mathematics in 2013 from Shandong University, China, and an MS in Statistics in 2016…
The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2021 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Chao Gao.
Dr. Gao is an assistant professor in statistics at the University of Chicago. He…
Jianqing Fan is Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Former Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and Director of Committee of Statistical Studies at Princeton University, where he directs both statistics and financial econometrics labs. After receiving his PhD from…
As you will have noticed, 2020 has been an unusual year for conferences and speakers! Many events that were scheduled for 2020 will now be happening in 2021 (or even 2022), as you can see in the calendar at the back of the Bulletin, or on the IMS website at…