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Victor M. Panaretos is Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the EPFL. He received his PhD in 2007 from UC Berkeley, advised by David Brillinger. Upon graduation he was appointed Assistant Professor at EPFL’s Mathematics Institute, where he rose the ranks to Full Professor, also serving as Institute Director. He has…

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Ying Jin is currently a Wojcicki Troper Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Data Science Initiative, working with Professors José Zubizarreta and Marinka Zitnik at Harvard Medical School. Her research centers around conformal prediction, distribution-free inference, generalizability, distribution shifts, selective inference, and their applications in biomedical discovery and human decisions. In Fall…

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Meet the 2025 IMS special invited lecturers (i.e. those selected to give named and Medallion lectures). These will be delivered at three IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings next year. The first of these meetings is the INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, which will take place June 30–July 3, 2025,…

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As previously announced, the following IMS members have been selected to receive the 2025 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Louis V. Cammarata, Harvard University; Ying Jin, Harvard University (previously at Stanford University); and George Stepaniants, California Institute of Technology (previously Massachusetts Institute of Technology)…

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Herold Dehling, the Chair of the Local Organizing Committee for the World Congress, writes: The Bernoulli–IMS 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics was held from 12 to 16 August, 2024, on the campus of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Organized jointly by the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability,…

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