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April 1, 2023
C.R. Rao, an Indian professor whose work over 75 years ago continues to exert a profound influence on science, has been awarded the 2023 International Prize in Statistics.
In his remarkable 1945 paper published in the Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society, Calyampudi Radhakrishna (C.R.) Rao demonstrated three fundamental results…
March 31, 2023
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 2023 Tweedie New Researcher Award is Jonathan Niles-Weed.
Dr. Niles-Weed is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at the…
IMS Fellow Alain-Sol Sznitman, ETH Zurich, has been elected to the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. See www.leopoldina.org.
Professor Sznitman has been full Professor at the ETH Zurich, Department of Mathematics, since 1991. Born on December 13, 1955 in Paris, he studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in…
Yong Zeng, University of Missouri–Kansas City, has become a permanent program director and Jun Zhu, University of Wisconsin–Madison, became a rotator program director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences in the National Science Foundation Directorate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. They join Yulia Gel of The University of…
IMS member and Fellow Kanti Mardia has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). A senior research professor at the University of Leeds, UK, Mardia is a distinguished Indian statistician who is known for his pioneering work on multivariate analysis, directional data, and statistical measures…