IMS awards
IMS Council has recently voted to create a new annual prize, the IMS Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award. Find out how you can get involved. In today’s data landscape, there is a notable surge in extensive and varied datasets, encompassing big data and unstructured…

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We are pleased to announce the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2024 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Filippo Ascolani, Bocconi University; Chanwoo Lee, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Yuling Yan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The award will fund their travel to next…

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As well as the IMS awards seeking nominations [see this article], applications are also open for these awards for early-career researchers. IMS New Researcher Travel Award: https://www.imstat.org/ims-awards/ims-new-researcher-travel-award/ The purpose of the IMS New Researcher Travel Award is to fund travel and possibly other expenses to present a paper or…

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IMS Past-President Peter Bühlmann and the former Chair of the Committee on Equality and Diversity Nicole Lazar write: IMS has many awards and honors for early, mid-career and senior researchers. While these awards recognize excellence of individuals, they should represent and showcase the breadth of outstanding achievements of our members…

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These are some of this year’s IMS Travel Award recipients who used their awards to fund travel to the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto (pictured with Program Secretary Annie Qu, on the right). If you are a graduate student or a new researcher, you can apply for a travel…

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