IMS awards
Bodhi Sen is Professor and Chair of Statistics at Columbia University, New York. He completed his PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2008. Prior to that, he was a student at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, where he received his Bachelors (2002) and Masters (2004)…
Ian McKeague is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics at Columbia University in the City of New York, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and will soon start a term as a co-editor…
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 IMS Hall Early Career Prize, the IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award, and the IMS Carver Medal.
Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has received the 2026 …
The IMS Annual Meeting 2026 will take place in Salzburg, Austria, from 6–9 July, 2026, at Salzburg Congress. The scientific program will feature the 2026 Wald Lecture (Tilmann Gneiting), the 2026 Blackwell Lecture (Cun-Hui Zhang) , three 2026 Medallion Lectures (Ian McKeague, Bodhisattva Sen, Jelle Goeman), the IMS Lawrence D.…
Each year, the IMS selects speakers across a range of subject areas to deliver our named and medallion lectures at IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meetings. In 2026, these will be at:
SPA 2026 (Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications), June 15–19, 2026, in Ithaca, USA: Schramm lecture (Roland …