IMS awards
Our collection of IMS lectures on YouTube is growing. You can watch at https://www.youtube.com/@InstMathStat/videos.
These ones are uploaded already, with more to be added:
Alicia Carriquiry, IMS Medallion Lecture: “Statistics and Its Application in Forensic Science and the Criminal Justice System”
Jing Lei, IMS Medallion Lecture: “Winners with…
Regina Liu is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She received her PhD in statistics from Columbia University. Regina has made seminal contributions to several research areas. For example, she is credited for developing the critical foundation for the now…
As previously announced, Chengchun Shi of the London School of Economics and Political Science has received the 2025 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dr. Shi receives the award “for ground-breaking contributions to the development of a wide range of statistical methods and advanced tools in reinforcement…
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…