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The laureates of the first Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics received their awards in a ceremony at the University of Leuven, Belgium, on October 12th: you can see the photos, videos and slides at https://rousseeuwprize.org/ceremony. Our columnist David J. Hand, Imperial College London, chaired the international selection committee, and…
Organizers Annie Qu and Regina Liu write:
We are delighted to report that the 2022 ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science; December 13–16, 2022, in Florence, Italy) has received a tremendous response, including many outstanding invited speakers coming from different countries and continents, covering a wide…
Several IMS members are among those honored as elected members of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in the third round of 2022 ISI membership elections. The names and nationalities of the newly elected members are given below:
Sanjay Chaudhuri (India). Sanjay Chaudhuri is an Associate Professor in the Department of…
The International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) prize committee unanimously agreed to award the 2022 Hukum Chandra Memorial Prize to Prof. Mahmoud Torabi (University of Manitoba) for the paper “Sumca: Simple, Unified, Monte-Carlo Assisted Approach to Second-order Unbiased MSPE Estimation”. Prof. Torabi will receive the prize and provide a special…
Hongyu Zhao received his BS in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1990 and PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He is currently the Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, and Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Professor of Genetics at Yale University.
Hongyu’s research interests…