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Sylvie Méléard is Professor at Ecole polytechnique, France, and senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is a specialist in stochastic processes, measure-valued processes, quasi-stationary distributions and is interested in their applications in biology, particularly in evolutionary ecology, bacterial biology and hematology. She is the head of the…

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Ingrid Van Keilegom received her PhD in Statistics in 1998 from Limburgs Universitair Centrum (now called Hasselt University) in Belgium. She is, since 2016, professor of statistics at KU Leuven. Previously she was a professor at Pennsylvania State University, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), and UCLouvain in Belgium, where she…

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Runze Li received his PhD in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. He currently is the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics and Professor of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Runze’s research interests include theory and…

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The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2023 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Jonathan Niles-Weed. Dr. Niles-Weed is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at the…

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Citation: For fundamental contributions to information theory, statistical and machine learning methodology; interdisciplinary research in fields such as genomics, neuroscience, remote sensing and document summarization; and for outstanding dedication to professional service, leadership, and mentoring of students and young scholars. Haiyan Huang, Kathryn Roeder, and Jianwen Cai write: The Committee…

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