IMS awards
Yaqi Duan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Professor Martin J. Wainwright. Her research interests lie broadly in the intersection of statistics and machine learning, in particular data-driven sequential decision making and reinforcement learning. In fall 2023,…
We are pleased to announce the following members have been selected to receive the 2022 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Yaqi Duan, Yuetian Luo, and Tudor Manole. The award will fund their travel to next year’s IMS Annual Meeting, which takes place at JSM Toronto (August 5–10, 2023).…
Next year there will be an impressive list of invited speakers at a range of IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings.
Jian Ding will give a Medallion Lecture at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes (University of Arizona, March 8–11).
Hongyu Zhao’s Medallion Lecture will be at the ENAR/IMS Spring Meeting (Nashville,…
Hongyu Zhao received his BS in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1990 and PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He is currently the Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, and Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Professor of Genetics at Yale University.
Hongyu’s research interests…
Each year the IMS selects a range of distinguished researchers to deliver a special (named or medallion) lecture and receive the associated award, at one of the IMS sponsored or co-sponsored meetings. Where possible, these lectures are recorded and made freely available on our IMS YouTube channel. This year’s special…