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December 13, 2022
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…
Yaqi Duan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Professor Martin J. Wainwright. Her research interests lie broadly in the intersection of statistics and machine learning, in particular data-driven sequential decision making and reinforcement learning. In fall 2023,…
Bernoulli Society and IMS call for preliminary bids/expressions of interest from academics interested in running the Bernoulli–IMS World Congress at their institution in 2028.
The deadline for submission is March 31st, 2023. The location of the 2028 meeting will be announced during the 11th Bernoulli–IMS World Congress in Probability…