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Australian-born Ruth Williams is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her current research involves developing mathematical models of congestion in networks subject to random ‘traffic’ fluctuations, including transport, computing, communications, manufacturing, and biological systems.
Ruth Williams studied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, where she…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is pleased to announce Runze Li as the 2024 IMS Carver Medal recipient. Professor Li is the Eberly Family Chair Professor of Statistics at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. The award is made in recognition of his exceptional contributions to IMS, especially through…
The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funding for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2024 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Chengchun Shi.
Dr. Shi is an Associate Professor of the Department of Statistics at the…
The Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association honored Nicholas Horton, Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society (Statistics and Data Science) at Amherst College, with the Mosteller Statistician of the Year Award, last October. This award is given to a distinguished statistician who has made exceptional contributions to the…
During 2023, two conferences were arranged in order to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut [UConn]. The conferences were both arranged by his PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and visiting students from USA, China, Korea, India and Latin American countries for his distinguished research, teaching,…