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December 13, 2022
Contributing Editor Ruobin Gong shared some pieces of advice on cutting a path through the data science jungle:
The winter months of an academic year may appear slow and dormant. But for a thriving discipline like statistics, that cannot be further from the truth. From November to February, many statistics…
Wojbor Andrzej Woyczyński, Professor at Case Western Reserve University, passed away on the 14th of August 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 77 years old. He is survived by his children Martin Wojbor, Gregory Holbrook, and Lauren Pike, and by his wife Elizabeth Holbrook Woyczynski. Wojbor has left an indelible…
James (Jim) Pickands III, emeritus professor of statistics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, died March 9, 2022. He was 90.
Jim graduated from Yale and completed a doctorate in Mathematical Statistics at Columbia in 1965 with Simeon Berman as adviser. He then joined the Department of…
Yuetian Luo is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Data Science Institute at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022, advised by Anru Zhang. He is broadly interested in methodology, computation, and theory in complex and large-scale statistical inference problems.…
Tudor Manole is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), jointly advised by Sivaraman Balakrishnan and Larry Wasserman. Before moving to CMU, he completed a BSc in Mathematics at McGill University. He is broadly interested in nonparametric statistics and statistical…