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Daniela Witten wins the prestigious 2022 COPSS Presidents’ Award
Daniela Witten is a professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics. She develops statistical machine learning methods for high-dimensional data. Much of her work is motivated by applications in genomics…
The Chernoff Excellence in Statistics Award from the New England Statistical Society has been presented to Nitis Mukhopadhyay, “who, in the tradition of Herman Chernoff’s work, has made exceptional contributions to the theory, methodology, and novel applications of statistics and data science.”
The award was presented at the 35th…
Among the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ 260 newly elected members, selected to recognize their accomplishments and leadership in academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research, is Alice Guionnet, who is made an International Honorary Member. See https://www.amacad.org/news/2022-member-announcement…
The American Statistical Association (ASA) is bestowing its prestigious distinction of Fellow, in 2022, on 48 members for their professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistical science.
Among the 2022 ASA Fellows are the following 16 IMS members: Genevera I. Allen, Rice University; Kun Chen,…
IMS Fellow Emery Brown—Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and computational neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT professor of health sciences and technology, investigator with The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, and Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts…