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April 2, 2025
The winner of this year’s IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award is Bingxin Zhao, assistant professor in Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The citation reads, “For seminal contributions to imaging genetics in neuroscience and genetics and for significant theoretical contributions to statistical…
The 17th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies has been awarded jointly to IMS Fellow Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley, and National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, INRIA, Paris) and to Anil Jain (Michigan State University), for what the committee…
On January 3, 2025, former US President Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science, America’s highest honor for exemplary achievement and leadership in science and technology. Among the medal winners was IMS Fellow Emery Neal Brown.
Emery Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of…
We have just learned of the peaceful passing on March 19 of Paul Shaman, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Paul received the IMS Carver Medal in 2004 for his long service as Managing Editor. He was instrumental in creating and maintaining the IMS Scientific…
Our contributing editor Radu Craiu, University of Toronto, recalls his early experiences of attending conferences as a young, green student… and the transformative power of simply being acknowledged.
I still remember my first conference. I was an inexperienced graduate student with some vague idea about conferences as mediums…