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March 31, 2023
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…
In October, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) council elected nearly 505 members as fellows, and a virtual induction ceremony took place on February 13. Election as a fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society…
Citation: For fundamental contributions to information theory, statistical and machine learning methodology; interdisciplinary research in fields such as genomics, neuroscience, remote sensing and document summarization; and for outstanding dedication to professional service, leadership, and mentoring of students and young scholars.
Haiyan Huang, Kathryn Roeder, and Jianwen Cai write:
The Committee…