IMS awards
IMS 2022 Annual Meeting organizers Qiwei Yao and Thomas Mikosch were delighted to welcome more than 520 participants—including over 100 students—to the IMS Annual Meeting in London at the end of June (https://www.imsannualmeeting-london2022.com). For many attendees it was their first in-person conference in three years, and there was a lively…
Honorary Doctorate awarded to Grace Wahba by The Ohio State University
Grace Wahba, Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by The Ohio State University at its Spring Commencement on May 8. The degree recognizes the monumental contributions she has…
Vlada Limic received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Zagreb in 1994, and her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. She held postdoctoral positions at UC San Diego and at Cornell University. In 2002, Vlada became a junior professor at the University of…
Ramon van Handel is an associate professor, and a member of the executive committee of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), at Princeton University. He received his PhD in 2007 from Caltech. His honors include the NSF CAREER award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers…
We are pleased to announce that Anru Zhang has been selected to receive the 2022 Tweedie New Researcher Award, as recommended by the IMS Committee on Travel Awards. Anru Zhang is the tenured Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. M.D. Associate Professor at the Departments of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Computer Science,…