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On January 3, 2025, former US President Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science, America’s highest honor for exemplary achievement and leadership in science and technology. Among the medal winners was IMS Fellow Emery Neal Brown.
Emery Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of…
We have just learned of the peaceful passing on March 19 of Paul Shaman, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Paul received the IMS Carver Medal in 2004 for his long service as Managing Editor. He was instrumental in creating and maintaining the IMS Scientific…
The International Prize in Statistics Foundation has awarded Grace Wahba the 2025 prize in recognition of her groundbreaking work on smoothing splines, which has transformed modern data analysis and machine learning.
Professor Wahba was among the earliest to pioneer the use of nonparametric regression modeling. Recent advances in computing and…
We are pleased to announce the following three IMS members have been selected to receive the inaugural 2025 IMS Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award:
Irina Gaynanova, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, for her significant contributions to the development of statistical methods…
In January 2025, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.
The newest PECASE recipients include two IMS members, Tamara Broderick (Office of…