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The Colegio de Postgraduados, a prestigious academic institution located at Chapingo, Mexico, has decided to present its 2023 Honoris Causa Award to Dr. Barry Charles Arnold, “for his outstanding joint work and contributions over the last 50 years with our Statistics Department.” Dr. Arnold has actively participated teaching and…
In the previous issue’s article about the two IMS Fellows who were awarded MacArthur Fellowships, we originally stated incorrectly that Lester Mackey’s team had won the 2009 Netflix Prize. In fact, Mackey was part of the team that came second. He explained, “We tied the winning team, but…
The MacArthur Fellowship is a five-year $800,000 grant, awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future. The Fellowship is designed to provide recipients with the flexibility to pursue their…
Richard Olshen, 1942–2023
IMS Fellow Richard Olshen passed away on November 8. He was Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford Medicine. Among his honors and awards, he was a Fellow of ASA, IEEE, and the AAAS, and was a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. Olshen’s research was applications of…
Jian Ding, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University, has been awarded the 2023 Liné and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability (known as the Loève Prize).
Jian Ding earned his PhD in Statistics, focusing on probability theory, at UC Berkeley in 2011. His research area…