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Princeton University Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Professor Rene Carmona and University of California at Santa Barbara Professor Michael Ludkovski, along with Professor Ronnie Sircar (ORFE) and Dr. Glen Swindle (Scoville Risk Partner), have been awarded $3.5 million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects…
Philip Ernst, Associate Professor of Statistics at Rice University, has been named the inaugural winner of the INFORMS Don Gaver, Jr. Early Career Award for Excellence in Operations Research, the first institute-wide early-career award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
Philip Ernst was recognized for…
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University (FSU) is pleased to announce Nancy Reid, University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methodology at the University of Toronto, as the inaugural speaker for its newly endowed Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture. The lecture is co-sponsored by IMS.
Nancy Reid will…
Rina Foygel Barber is Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Before starting at University of Chicago, she was an NSF postdoctoral fellow during 2012–13 in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University, supervised by Emmanuel Candès. She received her PhD in Statistics at the University…
Terry Speed had the tough task of outlining a very long—and extraordinarily productive—life, to mark C.R. Rao’s 100th birthday:
Professor Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (hereafter CRR) was born on September 10, 1920 in Hadagali, Karnataka State, India. He received an M.A. in mathematics in 1940 from Andhra University and an M.A.…