News
March 31, 2026
Regina Liu and Annie Qu, co-organizers of the 2025 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science, report:
We are delighted to report that the 2025 ICSDS (International Conference on Statistics and Data Science), held December 15–18 in Seville, Spain, was another huge success. It followed similarly…
Marianne Huebner, Michigan State University, responds to David Hand’s recent “Hand Writing” column about data quality, which appeared in the January/February 2026 issue. She stresses the importance of Initial Data Analysis (IDA):
David Hand makes an excellent case for the crucial role of data quality––an aspect that too often…
Armeen Taeb (University of Washington), who is President of the IMS New Researchers Group, IMS-NRG, has the following announcements:
Panel session and mixer at CLAPEM in Uruguay:
For the first time, the New Researchers Group hosted a panel session and mixer event at CLAPEM. The panel session consisted of panelists…
Meet our newest Contributing Editor, Chiara Sabatti. Chiara is Professor of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, at Stanford University. She discovered statistics while studying economics and has spent most of her professional life working with genomics data. Her recent sabbatical has brought home for her with new clarity that…
Tilmann Gneiting serves as head of the Computational Statistics group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Professor of Computational Statistics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Until 2024, he was a member of the KIT Institute of Stochastics, where he continues to teach; at the…