Obituary
The Department of Statistics at Columbia University mourns the passing of Professor Shaw-Hwa Lo, who passed away on October 25, 2025, at the age of 74. Professor Lo was a distinguished statistician, teacher, and collaborator whose work transformed both theoretical and applied statistics. His research in asymptotic theory, survival analysis,…
Professor Klaus Krickeberg, who was an IMS Fellow, passed away peacefully on November 27, in Bielefeld, Germany, where he had resided in recent years. He was 96 years old. The funeral service took place on December 8 in Bielefeld. Born in Berlin in 1929, Klaus Krickeberg held professorships in…
IMS Fellow Madabhushi Raghavachari passed away on September 19, 2024.
Professor Madabhushi Raghavachari, a renowned statistician and academic leader, passed away peacefully at the age of 88. His life was marked by a profound dedication to education, leaving an indelible mark on students and institutions across the globe.
Born in…
Professor Emeritus Richard (Dick) Lynn Dykstra passed away peacefully on September 19, 2025. Dick received his PhD in 1968 from the University of Iowa, where his doctoral work on characterizing a conditional expectation with respect to a sigma-lattice was advised by Tim Robertson and Jon Cryer. Dick then worked at…
David F. Findley passed away in June 2025 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. David was born in Washington DC on December 27, 1940. He earned a BS (1962) and MA (1963) in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati. He then lived in Germany, studying functional analysis under Gottfried Köthe, obtaining…