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February 17, 2020
Professor Alan Welsh, Australian National University, has been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science for his highly original and insightful contributions to the advancement of statistics. Professor Welsh was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy (FAA) in 2007 (and an IMS Fellow in 1990).
Alan Welsh has developed…
Members Jay Bartroff, Larry Goldstein and Gary Lorden were chosen by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) to be the statisticians on a committee with physicists, engineers, and baseball experts studying MLB’s recent surge in home runs. The committee studied vast amounts of game data, performed laboratory tests on…
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In a recent post, Roger C. Schonfeld reported: “At ITHAKA’s Next Wave conference, leaders from academic societies, libraries, publishers, and other organizations…
Ruobin Gong is Assistant Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University. Her research interests lie at the theoretical foundations of Bayesian and generalized Bayesian methodologies, statistical modeling, inference, and computation with differentially private data, and ethical implications of aspects of modern data science. Ruobin received her PhD in statistics from Harvard…
Radu V. Craiu, our newest Contributing Editor, is Professor and Chair of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He studied Mathematics at the University of Bucharest (BS 1995, MS 1996), and received a PhD from the Department of Statistics at The University of Chicago in 2001. His main research…