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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…

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Bernard Silverman outlined his long involvement with IMS in his speech after the delicious banquet hosted by LSE at the London meeting: I’m very honoured to be invited here. It’s fantastic that the IMS meeting is in London, and I really hope that people are enjoying their time here. My…

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Xiao-Li Meng got it. COVID, that is. But the silver lining is that he now makes a welcome return to writing the “XL-Files”: What happens when a statistician becomes a COVID statistic? Well, first of all, a COVID fever reignited my XL fervor. No, the missing “XL-Files” have not been…

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Ramon van Handel is an associate professor, and a member of the executive committee of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), at Princeton University. He received his PhD in 2007 from Caltech. His honors include the NSF CAREER award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers…

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Michael Barrett Woodroofe, IMS Fellow and former Leonard J. Savage Collegiate Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, passed away on February 22, 2022 at the age of 81. Michael was born on March 17, 1940 in Corvallis, Oregon, and grew up in the small town of Athena in…

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