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Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia has been awarded the Hannan Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. Noel Cressie is Director of UOW’s Centre for Environmental Informatics in the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) and Distinguished Professor in the School…
The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University proudly hosted the Best of Statistical Science (BOSS) 2025 Workshop on April 25–26, 2025. The two-day event brought together a distinguished group of experts, faculty, and students for a rich program of academic exchange, professional networking, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This workshop was…
New Researcher Travel Awards: 16 winners
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards for 2025. Each award provides funding to an IMS member who has received their PhD within the past five years, to attend any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting where they will…
Three leading mid-career statisticians have been announced as winners of the David Cox Medal for Statistics, awarded for the first time in 2025 to commemorate the work of the late world-leading statistician and former IMS president, Sir David Cox.
The three winners are Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen of the University of…
The winner of this year’s IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award is Bingxin Zhao, assistant professor in Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The citation reads, “For seminal contributions to imaging genetics in neuroscience and genetics and for significant theoretical contributions to statistical…