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The United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is honoring 20 individuals in 2024 with awards recognizing their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, social, and medical sciences.
Among the 2024 NAS award winners is Sylvia Serfaty, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,…
IMS Council has approved the appointment of Hans-Georg Müller and Harrison Zhou as Editors of Annals of Statistics for the term January 1, 2025–December 31, 2027. They will be taking over from co-editors Enno Mammen and Lan Wang.…
The Bernoulli Society and Royal Statistical Society select a young researcher in alternate years to receive the David G. Kendall Award. The 2023 recipient is Qiyang Han, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University.
Qiyang Han was recognized for his outstanding contributions to, among other things, empirical process theory, nonparametric…
IMS Fellow Peihua Qiu has been named the recipient of the 2024 ASQ Shewhart Medal. The citation reads: “For seminal research in developing new quality control methodologies; for exploring new applications of process control charts; for leadership in promoting quality and statistics in healthcare and biomedical studies; and for outstanding…
The 2024 Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling is awarded to IMS Fellow Tilmann Gneiting for “seminal work in environmental and stochastic modeling, with applications to computational weather forecasting, and for research in probability theory and mathematical statistics.” Gneiting is most widely known for foundational work on probabilistic…