Lester Mackey is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he develops machine learning methods, models, and theory for large-scale learning tasks driven by applications from weather and climate forecasting, healthcare, and the social good. Lester co-organized the second place team in the Netflix Prize competition; won the Prize4Life…

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Bodhi Sen is Professor and Chair of Statistics at Columbia University, New York. He completed his PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2008. Prior to that, he was a student at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, where he received his Bachelors (2002) and Masters (2004)…

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Ian McKeague is Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics at Columbia University in the City of New York, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He has served as a co-editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and will soon start a term as a co-editor…

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Deadline: August 15, 2026. Student members of IMS are invited to submit solutions to bulletin@imstat.org (subject “Student Puzzle Corner”). If correct, we’ll publish your name (and photo, if there’s space), and the answer, in the next issue. The Puzzle Editor is Anirban DasGupta. His decision is final. Student Puzzle editor …

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Here’s the latest news from the Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science: Fifth Annual International Day for Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference We are pleased to share some updates about the 5th Annual IDWSDS Conference, taking place online on October 6th, 2026. Abstract submission is…

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