Obituary
John H. Wolfe, an IMS Life Member, passed away peacefully on April 26, 2024, in San Diego, California, after a battle with metastatic cancer. He was 90 years of age. He is best known in statistics as the inventor of model-based clustering in the 1960s, a field that has seen…
William (Bill) Strawderman, a brilliant mathematical statistician and a wonderful colleague and leader, passed away on October 1, 2024.
Born on April 25, 1941, Bill received a BS in Engineering Mathematics from University of Rhode Island in 1963, an MS in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1965, and an MS…
The Statistics community lost a luminary with the sad demise of Professor Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee on June 18, 2024, at the age of 89. He leaves behind his son and daughter and two grandchildren, as well as numerous students, friends and admirers. A doyen among Indian statisticians, Professor Chatterjee was…
Professor Richard Allen Olshen passed away on November 8, 2023.
Professor Olshen will be forever remembered for his pioneering research in the field of statistics and his unyielding passion for academia, especially to Stanford University. He played a significant role in advancing statistical learning, notably through his influential work on…
We are saddened to report that Wolfgang Wefelmeyer lost his life after a road accident in January 2024, at the age of just 74.
Wolfgang Wefelmeyer spent most of his career at the University of Cologne in Germany. He studied Mathematics there and stayed on as a postgraduate under the…