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May 14, 2021
The IMS is pleased to announce the creation of a new award and lecture, to honor Grace Wahba’s monumental contributions to statistics and science. These include her pioneering and influential work in mathematical statistics, machine learning and optimization; broad and career-long interdisciplinary collaborations that have had a significant impact…
Tomi Mori is the 2021 President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. She is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. She writes:
2021 is the 50th anniversary of the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS), an international professional statistical society…
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu shares some advice that would have come in handy as a new researcher:
Once upon a time we were young and insolent (some of you still are). It was a time of questioning the authority of the discipline’s stars and the norms they had created, while…
Nancy Ruonan Zhang is a Ge Li and Ning Zhao Professor of Statistics in The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses primarily on the development of statistical and computational approaches for the analysis of genetic, genomic, and transcriptomic data. In the field of Genomics, she has developed…
Ilmun Kim is a research associate at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, mentored by Richard Samworth and Rajen Shah. He completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 under the joint supervision of Larry Wasserman and Sivaraman Balakrishnan. His research interests are broadly in the areas…