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IMS Fellow Bani K. Mallick, a professor in the department of statistics at Texas A&M University, was recently designated a Regents Professor by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The Regents Professor Award, established in 1996, honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to their university, their…
Tom Kurtz and Amandine Véber write a tribute to Alison Etheridge, who has been awarded the title Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE; the female counterpart to Knight Commander):
Former IMS President Alison Etheridge is now a Dame Commander of the Order of the…
Professor Sir John Aston is Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life at the University of Cambridge. Professor Aston is an applied statistician with particular interest in statistical neuroimaging, official statistics and statistical linguistics. He has methodological interests in functional and object data analysis, time series and image analysis, and…
Edward Kennedy, an associate professor in Carnegie Mellon’s Department of Statistics & Data Science, received the Mortimer Spiegelman Award for his outstanding contributions to public health and statistics. Kennedy joined Carnegie Mellon University after graduating with a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Edward’s research interests lie…
The American Statistical Association’s Boston Chapter awards the Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award to recognize a distinguished statistician who has made exceptional contributions to the statistics field through research, teaching, and service to the statistical community, including to the ASA Boston Chapter. Susan A. Murphy, Mallinckrodt Professor of…