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IMS Fellow Peter Rousseeuw has been named the recipient of the 2024 Gottfried E. Distinguished Scholar Award of the ASA. The citation reads: “Dr. Peter Rousseeuw has made significant contributions to robust estimation, innovative model-free cluster analysis, and the development of statistical depth functions. His work, renowned for advancing methodology,…
IMS members Jay Bartroff, Professor and Associate Chair of the Statistics and Data Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Austin, and his former PhD advisee, Dr. Jinlin Song, Analysis Group, Inc., have received the 17th Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis for their 2020 paper, “Sequential…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, has announced the 2023 class of AAAS Fellows, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. This acknowledges their contributions to advancing science and its…
Bradley Efron, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, is the author of the Cambridge University Press–IMS Textbook, Exponential Families in Theory and Practice. The book was honored as a 2024 PROSE Award winner in the Mathematics and Statistics category at the American Publishers Awards.…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is pleased to announce Edgar Dobriban as the 2024 IMS Hall Prize recipient. Edgar Dobriban is an Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science, with secondary appointment in Computer and Information Science, at the University of Pennsylvania. His prize citation reads, “For deep, fundamental, and…