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Each year, the statistical profession recognizes outstanding members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in an awards ceremony organized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).
The Presidents’ Award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the statistics profession, and granted (with some exceptions) to an individual who…
Among the plenary lectures at next year’s International Congress of Mathematicians (July 23–30, 2026, in Philadelphia, USA) is IMS Fellow Peter Bartlett, who is a Professor of the Graduate School in Statistics and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. He is President of the…
The Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace was awarded to Sara van de Geer on June 2, 2025, at the 56th Journées de Statistique, the annual conference of the Société Française de Statistique (SFdS), in Marseille. Christophe Biernaki, president of the SFdS, presented her with the medal of Honorary Member of the…
The Emerging Leader award, given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, recognizes early-career statistical scientists who show evidence of and potential for leadership and who will help shape and strengthen the field. The eight 2025 recipients are:
Lucy D’Agostino-McGowan, Wake Forest University: For advancing causal inference…
Grace Y. Yi is the Statistical Society of Canada 2025 Gold Medal recipient. Grace is professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science at the University of Western Ontario. She joined Western in July 2019 after nearly two decades at the University of Waterloo, where she began as…