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March 31, 2023
On a cloudy February day in Seattle in early 2014, I was feeling pretty good. My tenure process had made it through all but the final stage of approval (which is typically a formality), my husband and I were expecting our first baby in just over five weeks, and I…
The Applied Public Health Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) presents the Mortimer Spiegelman Award annually to honor a statistician below the age of 40 in the calendar year of the award who has made outstanding contributions to health statistics, especially public health statistics. The award, established…
Xiao-Li Meng chats about ChatGPT:
By now, it’s worth having a chat if you know someone who hasn’t chatted with or about ChatGPT. Everyone I’ve talked to about it has been either impressed or depressed, sometimes concomitantly, with a few wanting to suppress the whole thing, almost contemptuously.
My first…
Professor Don Ylvisaker passed away peacefully on March 20, 2022. Don played a pivotal role in establishing the UCLA Department of Statistics. As head of the Division of Statistics within the UCLA Mathematics Department, he was instrumental in shaping the personality of the emerging department as one focused on not…
Bin Yu is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor and Class of 1936 Second Chair in Statistics, EECS, and Computational Biology at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on statistical machine learning practice and theory and interdisciplinary data problems in neuroscience, genomics, and precision medicine. She and her team developed in context iterative random…