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May 15, 2025
New Researcher Travel Awards: 16 winners
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the IMS New Researcher Travel Awards for 2025. Each award provides funding to an IMS member who has received their PhD within the past five years, to attend any IMS-sponsored or co-sponsored meeting where they will…
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten teams up with Rob Tibshirani:
This column is about the fact that statistics is hard. Of course, statistics is hard for non-statisticians: anyone who has ever taught a non-major stat class knows this to be true! But this column is about the fact that…
Jianqing Fan is Frederick L. Moore Professor at Princeton University, where he directs labs in financial econometrics and statistics. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley and previously held academic positions at UNC–Chapel Hill, UCLA, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A former president of both the Institute of…
Sunder Sethuraman is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona. Before arriving in Tucson in 2011, he was at Iowa State University for a number of years. He received his PhD from Courant Institute, NYU, in 1995. Much of his research has been on aspects of stochastic interacting…
Peter Bickel obtained his PhD in Statistics in 1963 from the University of California, Berkeley, advised by E.L. Lehmann. He remained there ever since and is now Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Professor of the Graduate School. His interests have focused on asymptotic methods, but otherwise have ranged widely, beginning…