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May 16, 2026
Jelle Goeman is professor of biostatistics at Leiden University Medical Center. He obtained his PhD at Leiden University in 2006 under supervision of Hans van Houwelingen and Sara van de Geer. His research interest is in high-dimensional data, in particular in testing and multiple testing problems that arise in such…
Lester Mackey is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he develops machine learning methods, models, and theory for large-scale learning tasks driven by applications from weather and climate forecasting, healthcare, and the social good. Lester co-organized the second place team in the Netflix Prize competition; won the Prize4Life…
Bodhi Sen is Professor and Chair of Statistics at Columbia University, New York. He completed his PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2008. Prior to that, he was a student at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, where he received his Bachelors (2002) and Masters (2004)…
Ian McKeague is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics at Columbia University in the City of New York, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and will soon start a term as a co-editor…
Deadline: August 15, 2026. Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). If correct, we’ll publish your name (and photo, if there’s space), and the answer, in the next issue. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban DasGupta. His decision is final.
Student Puzzle editor …