Lectures and Addresses
Mark Girolami is an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow (2012–2018) and was previously an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2007–2012). He is the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation Turing Programme on Data Centric Engineering, and previously led the EPSRC-funded Research Network on Computational Statistics and Machine Learning which is now …
IMS Special Lectures in 2017
The IMS sponsors several series of Special Invited Lectures, which are given by distinguished scientists at regular IMS meetings. The IMS Committee on Special Lectures chooses the recipients. Special Lectures are distinct from ordinary invited papers, which are chosen by the Program Committees for each…
The COPSS Awards are multi-society awards and as such, are presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings each year. In 2017, four awards will be presented: the Fisher Award and Lectureship, the Presidents’ Award, the F. N. David Award, and the Snedecor Award.
The nomination deadline for the 2017 Fisher Award…
Sara van de Geer is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich. Her work focuses on mathematical statistics, for example, theory for M-estimators in high/infinite dimensions, adaptation to unknown sparsity, semi-parametric theory, confidence sets in high-dimensional models, and concentration of measure for high-dimensional and nonparametric problems. She…
Bin Yu is Chancellor’s Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Her current research interests focus on solving high-dimensional data problems through developments of statistics and machine learning methodologies, algorithms, and theory. Her group is engaged in…
