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List of Donors
The IMS would like to thank the following individuals for contributing to the IMS. You may open and close the list of donors for each fund by clicking on the fund name.
Blackwell Lecture Fund
| David Aldous | John Lu |
| Anonymous | Sayan Mukherjee |
| Anonymous | Susan and Terrance Murphy |
| Kenneth and Selma Arrow | Michael Newton |
| David Banks | Robert Nowak |
| Alicia and Robert Bell | Richard Olshen |
| Shankar Bhamidi | Eugenio Regazzini |
| Peter and Nancy Bickel | Walter Rosenkrantz |
| Estate of David Blackwell | George G and Mary L Roussas |
| Karl and Aimee Broman | Tom Salisbury |
| Linda Zhao and Lawrence Brown | Mary Jennings and Donald Sarason |
| Erhan Çinlar | Christopher Saunders |
| Donald Cohn | Venkatraman E. Seshan |
| Anirban DasGupta | Juliet Shaffer |
| Joan Fujimura and Kjell Doksum | S. and D. Shreve |
| Jianqing Fan | Terence and Freda Speed |
| Arnoldo Frigessi | David Steinsaltz |
| Joseph Gastwirth | Virginia and Stephen Stigler |
| Andrew and Caroline Gelman | CJ Stone |
| Kenneth Griffin | William Sudderth |
| Allan Gut | Guo-Qiang Zhang and Jiayang Sun |
| Donald and Janet Guthrie | Richard Tapia |
| Ben Hansen | HM Taylor |
| Pierre Jacob | Steven Thomson |
| Barry and Kang Ling James | Edward van der Meulen |
| Iain Johnstone | Vincent Vu |
| Barbara Rosario and Michael Jordan | Michael Waterman |
| Joseph and Caroline Ann Mitchell Kadane | Edward Waymire |
| Karen Kafadar | Peter Wollan |
| Robert Kass | Joseph Yahav |
| Su Yeon Kim | Zhaohui and Yuhong Yang |
| Hira Koul | Qiwei Yao |
| Michael Lasarev | Bin Yu and Ke-Ning Shen |
| Jing Lei | Marvin Zelen |
| Richard Lockhart | Ji Zhu |
| Joshua Loftus |
IMS General Fund
| Eresen Arseven | Donald McClure |
| Gopal Basak | Greg Minshall |
| Asit Basu | Edsel Peña |
| Peter Baxendale | Eswar Phadia |
| Louis Chen | Gilles Pisier |
| Herman Chernoff | Dale Preston |
| Donald Cohn | Laurent Saloff-Coste |
| David Collins | Stanley Sawyer |
| Joel Dubin | John & Carol Schoenfelder |
| Josee Dupuis/Eric Kolaczyk | David Scott |
| Subhashis Ghoshal | Norman Severo |
| John Grice | Lynne Seymour |
| William Harkness | Walter Sievers |
| Klaus Hinkelmann | Michael Stein |
| Paul Holland | Steven Thomson |
| Fred Huffer | Daniela Witten |
| Lynn LaMotte | Donald Ylvisaker |
| James Landwehr | Ken-ichi Yoshihara |
| Ray-Shine Lee | Marvin Zelen |
| Thomas Louis | Alan Zimmerman |
IMS Gift Membership Fund (from 2012 forward)
| Andrew Barbour | Estate V. Khmaladze |
| Gopal K Basak | Ernst Linder |
| Ernest Bowen | Ryan Machtmes |
| Louis Chen | Donald McClure |
| Herman Chernoff | Edmund McCue |
| Herold Dehling | Luke Miratrix |
| Joel Dubin | Richard A. Olshen |
| Steven Ellis | John & Carol Schoenfelder |
| Arnoldo Frigessi | Walter Sievers |
| Diana Gillooly | Charles Stein |
| Ramanathan Gnanadesikan | Michael Stein |
| Susan Gruber | Steven Thomson |
| Irwin Guttman | Bruce E. Trumbo |
| Risto Heijmans | Anton Wakolbinger |
| Fred Huffer | Donald Ylvisaker |
IMS Grace Wahba Award and Lecture Fund
| Pegah Afshar | Li Ma |
| Candace Berrett | Wenxiu Ma |
| Arwen Bradley | Susan Murphy |
| David Callan | Robert Nowak |
| Bokyung Choi | Douglas Nychka |
| Xiaowu Dai | Richard Olshen |
| Jianqing Fan | Tai Qin |
| Feng Gao | Nancy Reid |
| Andrew Gelman | Richard Samworth |
| Zhigeng Geng | Christopher Saunders |
| Charles Geyer | Bernard Silverman |
| Chong Gu | Christopher Sims |
| Giles Hooker | Michael Stein |
| Hui-Nien Hung | Daniela Witten & Ari Steinberg |
| Hongkai Ji | Paul Switzer |
| Bai Jiang | Chien-Cheng Tseng |
| Hui Jiang | Bernard Viort |
| Iain Johnstone | Duzhe Wang |
| Robert Kass | Naisyin Wang |
| Hyunki Kim | Shulei Wang |
| Ryung Kim | Wing Hung Wong |
| Roger Koenker | Xianhong Xie |
| Jing Kong | Kun Yang |
| Yoonkyung Lee | Bin Yu |
| Faming Liang | Ming Yuan |
| Xihong Lin | Anru Zhang |
| Yi Lin | Hao Zhang |
| Linxi Liu | Min Zhang |
| Joshua Loftus | Sheng Zhong |
| Fan Lu | Qing Zhou |
| John Lu |
IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Fund
| Anonymous | Joshua Loftus |
| Anonymous | John Lu |
| Gerrit Draisma | Daniel Roy |
| Bettie and James Hannan | Naisyin Wang |
| Giles Hooker |
IMS Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. Student Award Fund
| Anonymous | Zhanyun Zhao and Kewei Ming |
| Naomi Altman | Axel Munk |
| Peter and Nancy Bickel | Forbes and Murr Families |
| Eileen and Harold Brown | Chaitra Nagaraja |
| Franklin Brown | Hui Nie |
| Jane and Marshall Brown | Richard Olshen |
| Louis Brown | Edsel Peña |
| Junhui Ca | Nancy Reid |
| Yun Yu and Tony Cai | Daniel Roy |
| Alicia Carriquiry | Harold Sackrowitz |
| Lisha Chen | Richard J. Samworth |
| Michael Cohen | David Scott |
| Anirban DasGupta | Paul Shaman |
| Philip Dawid | Haipeng Shen |
| Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman Charitable | Dylan Small |
| Foundation | Daniel Solomon |
| Constantine Gastonis | Jonathan Stroud |
| Edward George | Weijie Su |
| Guestrin Family Foundation | Jiayang Sun |
| Jianqing Fan | Yves Thibaudeau |
| Xu Han | Ryan Tibshirani |
| Kun He | Liang Wang |
| Iain Johnstone | Xianchao Xie |
| Roger Koenker | Min Xu |
| Katherine Kopp | Dan Yang |
| Robert Kopp and Farrin Anello | Fan Yang |
| Arun Kuchibhotla | Yuhong Yang |
| James Landwehr | Bin Yu |
| Elizabeth Levin | Anru Zhang |
| Xufeng Li | Kai Zhang |
| Dongyu Lin | Li Zhang |
| Yi Lin | Linjun Zhang |
| Joshua Loftus | Mingyuan Zhang |
| Thomas Louis | Ren Zhang |
| Dorrit Lowsen | Linda Zhao |
| John Lu | Jintong Zheng |
| Yaakov Malinovsky | Wu Zhu |
| Wenxin Mao | Wunderkinder Foundation |
| Xiao-Li Meng |
IMS New Researcher Travel Award Fund
| Moulinath Banerjee | Debashis Pail |
| Amy Grady & Richard Smith | Edsel Peña |
| Pierre Jacob | David Scott |
| Axel Munk | David Steinsaltz |
| Richard Olshen/Amy Grady | Bin Yu |
| Eric Laber |
Le Cam Lecture Fund
| Charles Antoniak | Lei Li |
| Miguel Arcones | Shili Lin |
| Frederick Asare | Hung-Kung Liu |
| Dianne Carrol Bautista | Albert Lo |
| Rudolf Beran | Richard Lockhart |
| Peter Bickel | John Lu |
| Thomas Billings | VS Mandrekar |
| David Blackwell | James Marron |
| William Brady | George Martin |
| Karl Broman | Deborah Mayo |
| Lawrence Brown | John McDonald |
| F Thomas Bruss | Paul Meier |
| Prabir Burman | Max Moldovan |
| Andrew Carter | Per Mykland |
| Yu-Lin Chang & Pao-Kuei Wu | Peter Ney |
| Gang Chen | Deborah Nolan |
| Louis Chen | Richard Olshen |
| Chin Long Chiang | Michael Ostland |
| Bertrand Clark | Davy Paindaveine |
| Michael Cohen | Edsel Peña |
| Anirban DasGupta | Mark Pinsky |
| Roger Day | Gilles Pisier |
| Jay Devore | Madabhushi Raghavachari |
| Kjell Doksum | RV Ramamoorthi |
| David Donoho | Guilherme Rocha |
| Richard M Dudley | Walter Rosenkrantz |
| Lutz Duembgen | George G and Mary L Roussas |
| Robert Elashoff | Habib Salehi |
| Jianqing Fan | Frederic Schoenberg |
| Kai-Tai Fang | Richard Smith & Amy Grady |
| Dorian Feldman | Terry Speed |
| Thomas Ferguson | James Stapleton |
| Dean Foster | Philip Stark |
| Anthony Gamst | Charles Stein |
| Li Gan | David Steinsaltz |
| Jayanta Ghosh | Stephen Stigler |
| Dennis Gilliland | Shiaoyun Sun |
| Evarist Gine | Takeru Suzuki |
| Prem Goel | Anders Rygh Swensen |
| Alex Gottlieb | Shigeo Takenaka |
| Z Govindarajulu | Michael Talagrand |
| Priscilla Greenwood | Steven Thomson |
| Yuli Gu | Lanh Tran |
| Shanti Gupta | Howard Tucker |
| Peter Guttorp | Sara van de Geer |
| Charles Hagwood | Constance van Eeden |
| James Hannan | Guenther Walther |
| Paul Holland | Jane-Ling Wang |
| Rafael Irizarry | Yazhen Wang |
| Lancelot James | Shaoli Wang |
| Paramaraj Jeganathan | Jon Wellner |
| Kun Jin | Robert Wijsman |
| Iain Johnstone | Colin Wu & Li-Ping Yang |
| Rafail Khasminski | Shen X |
| Ja-Yong Koo | Jian-Lun Xu |
| Hira Koul | Grace Yang |
| Andrzej Kozek | Yuhong Yang |
| Yury Kutoyants | Yannis Yatracos |
| Louise Le Cam | Bin Yu |
| Kee-Won Lee | Marvin Zelen |
| Ray-Shine Lee | Ping Zhang |
| Erich Lehmann | Hongyu Zhao |
Open Access Fund
| Dorothee Aeppli | Eric Key |
| Anonymous | Chandra Kiran Krishnamurthy |
| Anonymous | Luca La Rocca |
| Anonymous | Michael Lasarev |
| Ersen Arseven | Zenghu Li |
| Frederick Asare | Yuan Liu |
| Arifah Bahar | J Maindonald |
| Dianne Carrol Bautista | Matthew Marler |
| Peter Baxendale | John McDonald |
| Thomas Billings | Roy Mendelssohn |
| Ernest Bowen | Maria Mendoza |
| William Brady | William Mietlowski |
| Kevin Buhr | Max Moldovan |
| Krzysztof Burdzy | Carlos Mora Gonzalez |
| Herminia Calvete | Peter Ney |
| Kathryn Chaloner | Roberto Oliveira |
| Louis Chen | Richard Olshen |
| Cindy Christiansen | Edsel Peña |
| William Cleveland | Ed Perkins |
| Jose Cordeiro | Sonia Petrone |
| Louis Cote | Ross Pinsky |
| Catherine Crespi | Gilles Pisier |
| Angelos Dassios | Igor Pruenster |
| Joel Dubin | Ruslan Pusev |
| Michael Fay | Alex Reinhart |
| Raisa (Raya) Feldman | Andreas Ruckstuhl |
| Kostas Fokianos | Arusharka Sen |
| Anthony Gamst | Walter Sievers |
| Charles Geyer | Jonathan Skinner |
| Subhashis Ghosal | Richard Smith & Amy Grady |
| Patricia Giurgescu | Charles Stein |
| Charles Goldie | David Steinsaltz |
| Christopher Green | Jason Stover |
| Risto Heijmans | Shigeo Takenaka |
| David Hoaglin | Steven Thomson |
| Robert Hoekstra | Lanh Tran |
| Giles Hooker | Bruce Trumbo |
| Fred Huffer | Shaoli Wang |
| Jane Hutton | Wojbor Woyczynski |
| Ernesto Jardim | Danyu Yang |
| Brian Junker | Marvin Zelen |
| Harry Kesten | Huiming Zhu |
Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize Fund
| Anonymous | Boaz Nadler |
| Anonymous | Balgobin Nandram |
| Adelchi Azzalini | John Nolan |
| David Banks | Richard Olshen |
| Rudolf Beran | Jean Opsomer |
| Rabi Bhattacharya | Fredos Papangelou |
| Peter Bickel | Layla Parast |
| Mary Ellen Bock | Byeong Uk Park |
| Alexandre Bouchard-Cote | Juhyun Park |
| Richard Bradley | Debashis Paul |
| Yun Yu and Tony Cai | Edsel Peña |
| Louis Chen | Brett Presnell |
| Song Xi Chen | Peihua Qiu |
| Noel Cressie | Annie Qu |
| Anirban DasGupta | Aaditya Ramdas |
| Richard A. Davis | Nancy Reid |
| Aurore Delaigle | Philip Reiss |
| Yanming Di | Johannes Ruf |
| Margaret Donald | David Ruppert |
| Miki and David Donoho | Richard Samworth |
| Lutz Duembgen | David Scott |
| Jianqing Fan | Timo Seppäläinen |
| Andrey Feuerverger | Paul Shaman |
| Turkan Gardenier | Qi-Man Shao |
| Tilmann Gneiting | Bernard Silverman |
| Prem Goel | Dylan Small |
| Charles Goldie | Richard Smith/Amy Grady |
| Amy Grady & Richard Smith | Robert Smythe |
| Elyse Gustafson | Terence Speed |
| Jeannie Hall | Clifford Spiegelman |
| James J. Higgins | Stephen Stigler |
| Giles Hooker | Stilian Stoev |
| Tomoyuki Ichiba | Gabor Szekely |
| Gareth James | Boxin Tang |
| Jiashun Jin | Donatello Telesca |
| Bingyi Jing | Ryan Tibshirani |
| Iain Johnstone | Surya Tokdar |
| Estate Khmaladze | Howell Tong |
| Claudia Kirch | Berwin Turlach |
| Roger Koenker | University of Melbourne |
| Eric Kolaczyk | Handan and Matt Wand |
| Luca La Rocca | Jane-Ling Wang |
| Runze Li | Qiying Wang |
| Zenghu Li | Edward Waymire |
| Xinhong Lin | Jon Wellner |
| Shiqing Ling | Susan Wilson |
| Yingying Fan and Jinchi Lv | Aihua Xia |
| Yanyuan Ma | William Weimin Yoo |
| Yoshihiko Maesono | George Alastair Young |
| James Stephen Marron | Bin Yu |
| Geri and Kristina Mattson | Harrison Zhou |
| Geoffrey McLachlan | Johanna F. Ziegel |
| Xiao-Li Meng | Hongtu Zhu |
| Carl Mueller | Hui Zou |
| Hans-Georg Müller |
Schramm Lecture Fund
| Anonymous | Microsoft |
| Anonymous | Sayan Mukherjee |
| Anonymous | Roberto Oliveira |
| Anonymous | Richard Olshen |
| A Barbour | Ross Pinsky |
| Cambridge University Press | Gilles Pisier |
| Raisa (Raya) Feldman | Thomas Salisbury |
| Thomas Kurtz | Timo Seppalainen |
| Zenghu Li | Jeffrey Steif |
| Russell Lyons | David Steinsaltz |
| John McDonald | Kenneth Stephenson |
| Marina Meila | Edward C. Waymire |
Scientific Legacy Fund
| Anonymous | Paul Shaman |
| William Mietlowski | Springer |
Tweedie New Researcher Fund
| William Anderson | Max Moldovan |
| Elja Arjas | Philippe Naveau |
| A Barbour | Deborah Nolan |
| Dianne Carrol Bautista | Esa Nummelin |
| William Brady | Daniel Ocone |
| F Breidt | Roberto Oliveira |
| Peter Brockwell | Gilles Pisier |
| Bradley Carlin | Jeffrey Rosenthal |
| Alicia Carriquiry | Kenneth Russell |
| Kathryn Chaloner | J. Andrew & Lynn Eberly Scherrer |
| Louis Chen | David Scott |
| John Connett | Arusharka Sen |
| Keith Crank | Lynne Seymour |
| William Dunsmuir | David Smith |
| Gary & Carol Gadbury | Richard Smith & Amy Grady |
| Joseph Gani | Terence Speed |
| Charles Geyer | David Steinsaltz |
| Ramanathan Gnanadesikan | Naftaly & Osnat Stramer |
| Jay & Anne Goldman | Shigeo Takenaka |
| Peter Hall | William Thomas |
| Yu Hayakawa | Surya Tokdar |
| Klaus Hinkelmann | Lanh Tran |
| James Hodges | Marianne Tweedie |
| Iain Johnstone | Nell Tweedie |
| Thomas Louis | Cathy Tweedie |
| Robert Lund | Xuan Yang |
| Roy Mendelssohn | Bin Yu |
| Sean Meyn | Marvin Zelen |
| William Mietlowski | Huiming Zhu |