News
March 31, 2026
Armeen Taeb (University of Washington), who is President of the IMS New Researchers Group, IMS-NRG, has the following announcements:
Panel session and mixer at CLAPEM in Uruguay:
For the first time, the New Researchers Group hosted a panel session and mixer event at CLAPEM. The panel session consisted of panelists…
Meet our newest Contributing Editor, Chiara Sabatti. Chiara is Professor of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, at Stanford University. She discovered statistics while studying economics and has spent most of her professional life working with genomics data. Her recent sabbatical has brought home for her with new clarity that…
Tilmann Gneiting serves as head of the Computational Statistics group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Professor of Computational Statistics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Until 2024, he was a member of the KIT Institute of Stochastics, where he continues to teach; at the…
Jane-Ling Wang is Distinguished Research Professor in Statistics at the University of California, Davis. She obtained her PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982 under the guidance of Jack Kiefer and Lucien Le Cam, and joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University…
David Blei is the William B. Ransford Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University, USA. He studies probabilistic machine learning and Bayesian statistics, including theory, algorithms, and application. David has received several awards, including the 2013 ACM Prize in Computing, a 2017 Guggenheim fellowship, 2019 Simons Investigator Award,…