Jiashun Jin is Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in Statistics from Stanford University in 2003. He was a faculty member at Purdue University from 2003 to 2007, after which he joined the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he remains a faculty…

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Guest columnist Dominique Picard considers the statistical legacy of wavelets. Once upon a time (around the nineties), wavelet analysis emerged as a major tool in various disciplines, including several branches of pure and applied mathematics and statistics. The primary intent at this time was to produce and exploit the properties…

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New IMS President Bin Yu has been wondering how IMS can help your career. I began my IMS presidency at JSM in Montreal in August. Data science, or big data, had been on my mind well before the meeting, during my flight to Montreal, and at the meeting itself. One…

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Maurice Bertram Priestley, Professor emeritus of the University of Manchester, UK, was an outstanding, influential and highly respected figure in the field of time series analysis. His book on Spectral Analysis and Time Series, first published in 1982 and reprinted several times, has become a standard reference on the…

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Wenbo V. Li, professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Delaware, died suddenly of heart failure on January 26, 2013, near his home in Newark, Delaware. He was 49 years old. Wenbo Li was born on October 27, 1963 in Harbin, China. After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in applied…

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