Nominations
Survey Methodology is a peer-reviewed statistical journal published twice a year by Statistics Canada. The journal established in 2001 an annual invited paper series in honor of the late Joseph Waksberg to recognize his outstanding contributions to survey statistics and methodology. Each year a prominent survey statistician is chosen by…

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IMS Past-President Peter Bühlmann and the former Chair of the Committee on Equality and Diversity Nicole Lazar write: IMS has many awards and honors for early, mid-career and senior researchers. While these awards recognize excellence of individuals, they should represent and showcase the breadth of outstanding achievements of our members…

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On behalf of the organizers of the biennial million-dollar Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics, which was first awarded in 2022, Mia Hubert and Stefan Van Aelst write: Statistics is a cornerstone of science, health, industry, economics, government and more, and benefits society as a whole. The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awards…

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Ryan Tibshirani wins the prestigious 2023 COPSS Presidents’ Award Ryan Tibshirani is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie broadly in statistics, machine learning (ML), and optimization and more specifically in high-dimensional statistics, nonparametric estimation, distribution-free inference, convex optimization, and…

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The IMS Committee on Special Lectures is accepting nominations for IMS Named and Medallion awards and lectures. You are invited to nominate: the 2025 & 2026 Wald Award & Lectures the 2025 Neyman Award & Lecture the 2025 Rietz Award & Lecture the 2025 Wahba Award & Lecture the 2026

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