During 2023, two conferences were arranged in order to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut [UConn]. The conferences were both arranged by his PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and visiting students from USA, China, Korea, India and Latin American countries for his distinguished research, teaching,…

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In addition to the eight Emerging Leader Awards (see below), in 2024 COPSS is awarding the Presidents’ Award, the E. L. Scott Award and Lectureship, and the Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship. Read more about the winners:   2024 Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship: Robert Tibshirani Robert…

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Stephen Stigler awarded Neumann Prize The British Society for the History of Mathematics announced that Stephen Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Statistics, has won the 2023 Neumann Prize for his book Casanova’s Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance (University of Chicago Press, 2022).…

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Peter Bühlmann studied mathematics at ETH Zürich (ETHZ) and received his doctoral degree in 1993 from the same institution. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow from 1994–95 and a Neyman Assistant Professor from 1995–97 at UC Berkeley, before returning to ETHZ in 1997. From 2013–17, he was Chair of the Department…

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Annie Qu is Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998. Qu’s research focuses on solving fundamental issues regarding structured and unstructured large-scale data and developing cutting-edge statistical methods and theory in machine learning and algorithms…

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