IMS awards
Sébastien Roch is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Statistics and the Theory of Computing Group. He earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an …
Patrícia Gonçalves received her PhD in 2007 from IMPA, Brazil. She is currently a full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. She works in the field of interacting particle systems and her work has particularly focused on their scaling limits, namely on hydrodynamic limits, fluctuations and large deviations. …
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…