IMS Bulletin
Annie Qu is Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998. Qu’s research focuses on solving fundamental issues regarding structured and unstructured large-scale data and developing cutting-edge statistical methods and theory in machine learning and algorithms…
Filippo Ascolani received his PhD in Statistics at Bocconi University in 2024 and he is starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. Previously he obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a M.Sc. in Stochastics and Data Science from University of Torino, Italy. His…
Marc Hallin is Emeritus Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he obtained his PhD in Mathematics and has been teaching Statistics and Mathematical Statistics at the Departments of Mathematics and Economics for more than thirty years. He also held invited positions in Lille 1, Paris 6, the Université…
IMS Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award
This new IMS award will be given annually to three women data scientists who are within 10 years of completing their PhD (or similar degree) during the year of the award. The award, consisting of a plaque, a…
Layla Parast writes:
A few years ago, my dad had a heart attack. (He continues to claim it was just a “discomfort.”) When he was in the emergency room, his doctor told him he needed heart surgery right away. My dad had never had a major surgery and had no…