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We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 IMS Hall Early Career Prize, the IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award, and the IMS Carver Medal.
Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, has received the 2026 …
Emeritus Professor Dr Shahjahan Khan of the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), Australia, received Australia’s most prestigious civilian award, the Order of Australia Medal, on Australia Day 2026. The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia conferred this award for Professor Khan’s significant and sustained contribution to the Australian community over…
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) has announced the winners of its Presidents’ Award, Scott Award and Distinguished Achievement Award.
COPSS Presidents’ Award: Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania, “For statistical foundations of generative AI including the watermarking, alignment, and rankings of LLMs; for advances in privacy preserving…
Student IMS member Hamza Ali’s research paper, “AI Systems Engineering: A Systematic Review of Process Models, Architectural Patterns, and Emerging Challenges (2019–2025),” co-authored with Douglas Sales Alves Amante (Federal University of Lavras, Brazil, and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy), Ubaid Ullah (Logiciel Services LLC, USA), and Imtiaz …
The Chinese Academy of Sciences elected 73 academicians and 27 foreign academicians in 2025. IMS Fellow Michael I. Jordan, who is Directeur de Recherche at Inria and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, was among those elected as a Foreign Member…