IMS Bulletin
R.V. Ramamoorthi passed away on November 22, 2023, at the relatively young age of 73. Known as RVR to many, he was on the faculty at Michigan State University for 37 years. He retired voluntarily in 2019 and moved with his wife Deepa (whom he married in 1985) to Bengaluru,…
Dr. Kasala Subramanyam passed at the residence of his daughter, Mohana, in Odessa, Texas on December 1, 2023. He was 77 years old. His children lost a devoted and caring father. His wife lost a lifetime partner. His friends in his profession lost an immeasurable companion.
Dr. Subramanyam was born…
The ACM–IMS Journal of Data Science (JDS) is a joint journal of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IMS, publishing high-impact research from all areas of data science, across foundations, applications and systems. The scope of the journal is multi-disciplinary and broad, spanning statistics, machine learning, computer systems,…
The 2024 Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling is awarded to IMS Fellow Tilmann Gneiting for “seminal work in environmental and stochastic modeling, with applications to computational weather forecasting, and for research in probability theory and mathematical statistics.” Gneiting is most widely known for foundational work on probabilistic…
The department of statistics, operations, and data science at Temple University hosted the Conference on Advances in Multiple Testing, which took place June 1, 2023, in honor of Sanat K. Sarkar for his 70th birthday and 40 years of service at Temple University. Sarkar has made fundamental contributions to…