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April 1, 2022
Nancy Reid: 2022 COPSS Distinguished Lecturer
Rebecca W. Doerge, Carnegie Mellon University, is the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award Committee Chair. Rebecca, together with Christian Genest and Erica E.M. Moodie, McGill University, writes:
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) has selected Nancy Reid, OC, FRS, FRSC, Professor in…
Hans-Georg Müller is Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Davis. While in high school, he received the First Prize in the National Mathematics Competition of Germany (Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik) in 1974 and 1975, followed by a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Ulm in Germany and a MD…
Heping Zhang is Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Child Study, and Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. He has published over 350 research articles and monographs in theory, methodology, and applications of statistics. He is particularly interested in biomedical research including epidemiology, genetics, child…
Russell Lyons obtained his PhD in harmonic analysis at the University of Michigan in 1983. Within a few years, some coincidences led him to switch to probability, where he has been happily ever since. Lyons is James H. Rudy Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Indiana University.…
Rina Foygel Barber is the Louis Block Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on problems in distribution-free inference, multiple testing, sparse and low-rank methods, and medical imaging. She received an M.S. in Mathematics in 2009 and a PhD in Statistics in 2012 from University of…