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American Statistical Association Fellows
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has bestowed its prestigious distinction of Fellow on 48 of its members, for their professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to the field of statistical science. Among the 2021 ASA Fellows are these 12 IMS members/Fellows: Jeffrey D. Blume, Vanderbilt University School…
Huixia Judy Wang, the COPSS Treasurer/Secretary, presents the 2021 winners:
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession. For 2021, COPSS awards were presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) on August 11 by the COPSS…
Bin Yu of the University of California, Berkeley has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) Faculty of Business and Economics in Switzerland. She was honored for being one of the most influential researchers of her time in statistics and data science, for the excellence and…
The Bernoulli Society 2021 Ethel Newbold Prize was awarded to Marloes Maathuis at the ISI World Statistics Congress in The Hague.
The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biannually to an outstanding early- or mid-career statistical scientist for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical statistics, and/or…
C. F. Jeff Wu, Professor and Coca Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Institute of Technology, has been honored with Sigma Xi’s Monie A. Ferst Award. This national-level award, sponsored by Georgia Tech’s Sigma Xi chapter, recognizes those who have…