Member news
Bhramar Mukherjee, the John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor and chair of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, received the 2024 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Recipients of the annual award demonstrate their exemplary…
IMS member Jemar R. Bather has been awarded the Penn State Alumni Association’s 2024 Alumni Achievement Award. The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni 35 years of age and younger for their extraordinary professional accomplishments. Jemar Bather graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s degree in statistics in 2014…
ISI elected members
Congratulations to IMS members Adrian Dobra and Tanujit Dey, who were among the 12 ISI Elected Members in the first round of the 2024 International Statistical Institute’s membership elections. See the list at https://isi-web.org/article/first-round-newly-elected-members-2024…
Australian-born Ruth Williams is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her current research involves developing mathematical models of congestion in networks subject to random ‘traffic’ fluctuations, including transport, computing, communications, manufacturing, and biological systems.
Ruth Williams studied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, where she…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is pleased to announce Runze Li as the 2024 IMS Carver Medal recipient. Professor Li is the Eberly Family Chair Professor of Statistics at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. The award is made in recognition of his exceptional contributions to IMS, especially through…