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February 17, 2025
In January 2025, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.
The newest PECASE recipients include two IMS members, Tamara Broderick (Office of…
IMS Fellow Bani K. Mallick, a professor in the department of statistics at Texas A&M University, was recently designated a Regents Professor by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The Regents Professor Award, established in 1996, honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to their university, their…
Tom Kurtz and Amandine Véber write a tribute to Alison Etheridge, who has been awarded the title Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE; the female counterpart to Knight Commander):
Former IMS President Alison Etheridge is now a Dame Commander of the Order of the…
ICSDS 2024 in Nice, France is Yet Another Success
ICSDS 2025 will be in Seville, Spain. Join Us!
Regina Liu and Annie Qu, the co-organizers of ICSDS 2024, write:
We are delighted to report that the third ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science), held December 16–19, 2024, in…
The new co-editors of the Annals of Statistics for 2025–27 are Hans-Georg Müller, University of California, Davis (hgmueller@ucdavis.edu), and Harrison Zhou, Yale University (harrison.zhou@yale.edu). They write to share their plans for the flagship IMS journal:
As the new co-editors, we aim to broaden the scope of the…