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July 15, 2024
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, has announced the 2023 class of AAAS Fellows, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. This acknowledges their contributions to advancing science and its…
Bradley Efron, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, is the author of the Cambridge University Press–IMS Textbook, Exponential Families in Theory and Practice. The book was honored as a 2024 PROSE Award winner in the Mathematics and Statistics category at the American Publishers Awards.…
The designation of IMS Fellow has been a significant honor for almost 90 years. Each of these Fellows has demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability or has demonstrated leadership that has profoundly influenced the field. Congratulations to all of you!
The Fellows were previously announced here.
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Nina Holden is an Associate Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. She completed her PhD in 2018 at MIT under the supervision of Scott Sheffield and was then a postdoc at ETH Zurich. Her research is in probability theory and mathematical physics and she…
Moulinath Banerjee completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute in 1995 and 1997, respectively, then authored a doctoral dissertation, Likelihood Ratio Inference in Regular and Nonregular Problems in 2000, advised by Jon A. Wellner of the University of Washington. He remained in Washington as a…