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April 2, 2025
The International Prize in Statistics Foundation has awarded Grace Wahba the 2025 prize in recognition of her groundbreaking work on smoothing splines, which has transformed modern data analysis and machine learning.
Professor Wahba was among the earliest to pioneer the use of nonparametric regression modeling. Recent advances in computing and…
The IMS New Researchers Group President Armeen Taeb shares some updates from the NRG:
The IMS Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability (a.k.a. the New Researchers Conference or NRC) will be held at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, July 31–August 2, 2025 (immediately before JSM). Junior…
In the last two issues of the IMS Bulletin, Xiao-Li Meng has taken us on an epicurean journey of wine, chocolate and whiskies, extracting a few teaching points along the way. To round off the three-part series, he takes us on an alphabetical exploration of the world of wine……
April 1, 2025
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is pleased to announce Annie Qu as the 2025 IMS Carver Medal recipient. Professor Qu is the Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and earns the award: “For excellent service to the IMS in several important dimensions, in particular, for outstanding contributions…
March 22, 2025
The IMS Tweedie New Researcher Award provides funds for travel to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference. The recipient of the 2025 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Bingxin Zhao.
Dr. Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science in the Department…
