IMS awards
New Researcher Travel Awards: 16 winners
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards for 2025. Each award provides funding to an IMS member who has received their PhD within the past five years, to attend any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting where they will…
The winner of this year’s IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award is Bingxin Zhao, assistant professor in Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The citation reads, “For seminal contributions to imaging genetics in neuroscience and genetics and for significant theoretical contributions to statistical…
Boaz Nadler earned his BSc, Msc and PhD degrees all from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. After his PhD, he spent three years as a Gibbs instructor / assistant professor at Yale University. Since 2005, he has been a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where is now…
George Stepaniants is an NSF MSPRF postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences working with Professor Andrew Stuart. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2024 in the Department of Mathematics co-advised by Professors Philippe…
We are pleased to announce the following three IMS members have been selected to receive the inaugural 2025 IMS Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award:
Irina Gaynanova, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, for her significant contributions to the development of statistical methods…