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Ingrid Van Keilegom received her PhD in Statistics in 1998 from Limburgs Universitair Centrum (now called Hasselt University) in Belgium. She is, since 2016, professor of statistics at KU Leuven. Previously she was a professor at Pennsylvania State University, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), and UCLouvain in Belgium, where she…
Runze Li received his PhD in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. He currently is the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics and Professor of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Runze’s research interests include theory and…
Have you voted yet for who you would like to represent you on the IMS Council, and as IMS President?
The nominee for President-Elect is Tony Cai. There are 10 candidates standing for the five available places on Council: Sourav Chatterjee, Gábor Lugosi, Marina Meila, Andrew B. Nobel, Roberto …
We are pleased to welcome Layla Parast—Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, mother, and CrossFit competitor—to the team of IMS Bulletin contributing editors, with her new column, Lines from Layla.
At my oral exam during my PhD, one…
Citizen science involves volunteers who participate in scientific research by collecting data, monitoring sites, and even taking part in the whole process of scientific inquiry (Roy et al. 2012, Scyphers et al. 2015). In the past two decades, citizen science (also called participatory or community-based monitoring) has gained tremendous popularity…