Member news
The International Statistical Institute has announced the ISI Elected members, elected in the first round of the 2022 ISI membership elections, among whom were the following IMS members: Bendek B. Hansen, University of Michigan; Yao Zheng, University of Connecticut; and Ling Zhou, Southwestern University of Finance and…
The Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) at UC San Diego has announced Professor Dimitris Politis as a HDSI Chancellor’s Endowed Chair, the second of ten chair-holders who are being honored for outstanding research scholarship and contributions to UC San Diego and the larger data science community. As an associate director…
We are pleased to announce that Xuming He is the 2022 IMS Carver Medal recipient. Xuming He is the H.C. Carver Collegiate Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, and President-Elect (2021–2023) of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He was selected for the Carver Medal, an award for service…
The UK Royal Statistical Society has announced its medals and prizes for 2022.
The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded to Nancy Reid for her pioneering work on higher-order approximate inference which provides a foundational basis for optimal information extraction from data, and has wide-ranging impact on the practice of…
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced its Class of 2021 Fellows. Among the 564 AAAS Fellows were eight in the Section on Statistics: Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani, University of Michigan; Valen Earl Johnson, Texas A&M University; Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania; Tapabrata (Taps) Maiti,…