IMS awards
Jing Lei obtained his PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2010 and joined Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. He is currently a professor of Statistics & Data Science at CMU. His research areas include nonparametric and predictive inference such as conformal prediction and cross-validation, high-dimensional inference, network data analysis,…
Chanwoo Lee received his PhD at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2023, advised by Dr. Miaoyan Wang. Before joining UW–Madison, he received a BS in Mathematical Science and Statistics in 2018 from Seoul National University, Korea. He is broadly interested in statistics, machine learning, and optimization. He has worked on developing …
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…
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…
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…