IMS awards
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is pleased to announce Runze Li as the 2024 IMS Carver Medal recipient. Professor Li is the Eberly Family Chair Professor of Statistics at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. The award is made in recognition of his exceptional contributions to IMS, especially through…
The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funding for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2024 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Chengchun Shi.
Dr. Shi is an Associate Professor of the Department of Statistics at the…
Peter Bühlmann studied mathematics at ETH Zürich (ETHZ) and received his doctoral degree in 1993 from the same institution. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1994–95 and a Neyman Assistant Professor from 1995–97 at UC Berkeley, before returning to ETHZ in 1997. From 2013–17, he was Chair of the Department…
Annie Qu is Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998. Qu’s research focuses on solving fundamental issues regarding structured and unstructured large-scale data and developing cutting-edge statistical methods and theory in machine learning and algorithms…
Filippo Ascolani received his PhD in Statistics at Bocconi University in 2024 and he is starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. Previously he obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a M.Sc. in Stochastics and Data Science from University of Torino, Italy. His…