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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…
The department of statistics, operations, and data science at Temple University hosted the Conference on Advances in Multiple Testing, which took place June 1, 2023, in honor of Sanat K. Sarkar for his 70th birthday and 40 years of service at Temple University. Sarkar has made fundamental contributions to…
David Allison, IMS Fellow and dean of the Indiana University School of Public Health in Bloomington, was named a 2023 fellow of the Sigma Xi honor society. Since 2020, the scientific research honor society has selected peer-nominated scientists in recognition of their “exceptional contributions to the scientific enterprise.” Founded…
Bhramar Mukherjee of the University of Michigan was selected to receive the American Statistical Association’s 2023 Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society, recognizing her commitment to and accomplishments in biostatistics on a global scale. While Mukherjee has worked in many areas of biostatistics,…
Tapabrata (Taps) Maiti joined the US National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences this fall as a rotator program director for statistics. Maiti is a foundation professor in the department of statistics and probability at Michigan State University, where he has served as the graduate director of statistics and was…