IMS awards
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is pleased to announce Edgar Dobriban as the 2024 IMS Hall Prize recipient. Edgar Dobriban is an Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science, with secondary appointment in Computer and Information Science, at the University of Pennsylvania. His prize citation reads, “For deep, fundamental, and…
Nancy Reid is University Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include statistical theory, likelihood inference, design of studies, and statistical science in public policy. She is a former President of the IMS, and is President-Elect of the Bernoulli Society. Nancy was…
Pablo Ferrari is Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET, in Argentina, and Emeritus Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is Licenciado en Matemática at the same university, and Doutor em Estatística at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; he joined their Department of…
Chunming Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. Her research interests encompass statistical methods in computational neuroscience, biostatistics, and financial econometrics, along with the analysis of…
Remco van der Hofstad is professor in probability at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Remco was scientific director of Eurandom from 2011–2019. He received the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2007. He is a laureate of prestigious VIDI 2003 and VICI 2008 grants, and is a PI in the 10-year Gravitation…