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November 15, 2023
Richard Olshen, 1942–2023
IMS Fellow Richard Olshen passed away on November 8. He was Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford Medicine. Among his honors and awards, he was a Fellow of ASA, IEEE, and the AAAS, and was a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. Olshen’s research was applications of…
Jian Ding, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University, has been awarded the 2023 Liné and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability (known as the Loève Prize).
Jian Ding earned his PhD in Statistics, focusing on probability theory, at UC Berkeley in 2011. His research area…
Adam Jakubowski presented the Willem van Zwet Medal to Thomas Valentin Mikosch (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) in a ceremony during the opening of the 34th European Meeting of Statisticians in Warsaw, on July 3, 2023. More details about this award can be found at https://www.bernoullisociety.org/prizes/53-general/323-willem-van-zwet-medal, and an interview with…
As well as receiving a MacArthur Fellowship, Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research, New England) has become the fifth Ethel Newbold Prize Winner. The Ethel Newbold Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding statistical scientist in early or mid-career for a body of work that represents excellence in research in mathematical…
The UK Royal Statistical Society (RSS) awarded Guy Medals in Silver and Bronze this year. The 2023 Guy Medal in Silver was awarded to Mark Girolami for his contributions to computational statistics and machine learning — in particular, his work on differential geometric approaches to stochastic simulation for statistical inference,…