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The Emerging Leader award, given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, recognizes early-career statistical scientists who show evidence of and potential for leadership and who will help shape and strengthen the field. The eight 2025 recipients are:
Lucy D’Agostino-McGowan, Wake Forest University: For advancing causal inference…
Grace Y. Yi is the Statistical Society of Canada 2025 Gold Medal recipient. Grace is professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science at the University of Western Ontario. She joined Western in July 2019 after nearly two decades at the University of Waterloo, where she began as…
The CRM–SSC Prize in Statistics recognizes a statistical scientist’s excellence and accomplishments in research during the first 15 years after their doctorate. It is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada. This year’s winner is Linglong Kong, University of Alberta.
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Trevor Hastie and Hui Zou win 2025 ISI Founders of Statistics Prize
The International Statistical Institute is pleased to announce that Trevor Hastie and Hui Zou have been awarded the 2025 Founders of Statistics Prize for Contemporary Research Contributions. This prestigious award recognizes their influential paper, “Regularization and Variable Selection…
The Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science (CWS) celebrated the achievements of its two 2025 Societal Impact Award winners: Shili Lin and Sarah Lotspeich. Dr. Lin is a professor of statistics at the Ohio State University and is recognized for outstanding mentoring of students and junior researchers,…