Lectures and Addresses
Each year, the statistical profession recognizes outstanding members at the Joint Statistical Meetings in an awards ceremony organized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).
The Presidents’ Award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the statistics profession, and granted (with some exceptions) to an individual who…
Our collection of IMS lectures on YouTube is growing. You can watch at https://www.youtube.com/@InstMathStat/videos.
These ones are uploaded already, with more to be added:
Alicia Carriquiry, IMS Medallion Lecture: “Statistics and Its Application in Forensic Science and the Criminal Justice System”
Jing Lei, IMS Medallion Lecture: “Winners with…
Regina Liu is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She received her PhD in statistics from Columbia University. Regina has made seminal contributions to several research areas. For example, she is credited for developing the critical foundation for the now…
The winner of this year’s IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award is Bingxin Zhao, assistant professor in Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The citation reads, “For seminal contributions to imaging genetics in neuroscience and genetics and for significant theoretical contributions to statistical…
Boaz Nadler earned his BSc, Msc and PhD degrees all from Tel-Aviv University, Israel. After his PhD, he spent three years as a Gibbs instructor / assistant professor at Yale University. Since 2005, he has been a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where is now…