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Ruben H. Zamar, professor of statistics at the University of British Columbia, passed away on June 28, 2023. Ruben’s inquisitive mind combined with his innovative ideas expanded and improved the field of Robust Statistics making it more relevant. Ruben was born in San Pedro, Province of Jujuy, Argentina, on December…

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IMS: What does it stand for? What could it stand for? Peter Bühlmann gave the Presidential Address at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto. The following text is based on his slides, which you can view here. This is a picture of IMS: … and what follows is…

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Don Pierce had a habit of continuing email threads with his collaborators years after a previous message without missing a beat in the conversation. Such instant-restart conversations reflected a profound intellectual concentration, a dogged pursuit of deeper understanding, and the special importance he placed on his collaborative relationships. These conversations…

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Ingrid Van Keilegom received her PhD in Statistics in 1998 from Limburgs Universitair Centrum (now called Hasselt University) in Belgium. She is, since 2016, professor of statistics at KU Leuven. Previously she was a professor at Pennsylvania State University, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), and UCLouvain in Belgium, where she…

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Runze Li received his PhD in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. He currently is the Eberly Family Chair in Statistics and Professor of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Runze’s research interests include theory and…

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