Lectures and Addresses
The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2023 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Jonathan Niles-Weed. Dr. Niles-Weed is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at the…

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Citation: For fundamental contributions to information theory, statistical and machine learning methodology; interdisciplinary research in fields such as genomics, neuroscience, remote sensing and document summarization; and for outstanding dedication to professional service, leadership, and mentoring of students and young scholars. Haiyan Huang, Kathryn Roeder, and Jianwen Cai write: The Committee…

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Citation: For outstanding leadership and service in the biostatistics and statistics community, for her leadership in statistical education, and for her achievements in biostatistical research, particularly in the field of aging research and frailty. Brian Caffo, Ingo Ruczinski and Catherine Crespi write: For the past 15 years Karen Bandeen-Roche has…

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Bin Yu is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor and Class of 1936 Second Chair in Statistics, EECS, and Computational Biology at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on statistical machine learning practice and theory and interdisciplinary data problems in neuroscience, genomics, and precision medicine. She and her team developed in context iterative random…

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Professor Wing Hung Wong serves on the faculty of Stanford University where he is currently Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, and Stephen R. Pierce Family Goldman Sachs Professorship in Science & Human Health. Before joining Stanford in 2004, he held teaching positions at the University of Chicago,…

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