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May 15, 2019
The Carver Medal Committee of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics has selected Jean Opsomer to receive the 2019 Harry C. Carver Medal. The award is made in recognition of his outstanding contributions to IMS, especially through his steady service and guidance as two-term Treasurer of the IMS that put IMS…
IMS Fellow Kathryn Roeder has been elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. NAS membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence in science and is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can…
The American Statistical Association has announced its class of 2019 Fellows. Among the 59 distinguished colleagues elected this year for their professional contributions, leadership, and commitment to statistical science, 23 are IMS members, of whom seven are also IMS Fellows.
Congratulations to: Gerda Claeskens, Keith Crank, Michael Fay, Michele Guindani,…
IMS member Eric Laber, Associate Professor at NCSU and Director of Laber Labs, features in an online video interview with the ASA’s Donna Lalonde and Lara Harmon, as part of April’s Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month. Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjthGoB_Ctg&t=4s.…
Professor Robert Tibshirani is among the 51 eminent scientists who have become Fellows of the Royal Society, for their exceptional contributions to science. Rob Tibshirani is Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Statistics, in the Departments of Biomedical Data Science and Statistics at Stanford University.
Robert Tibshirani has made…