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Jianqing Fan is Frederick L. Moore Professor of Finance, Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Former Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and Director of Committee of Statistical Studies at Princeton University, where he directs both statistics and financial econometrics labs. After receiving his PhD from…
Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow was a leading figure in the field of economic theory. Although he passed away in 2017, we only learned of this more recently, in the compilation of the IMS Scientific Legacy Database. Arrow was an IMS Fellow, among his many honors.
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Lynne Billard, University Professor, University of Georgia, has been named the 2020 IMS Carver Medalist. Dr. Billard receives the award for her outstanding service to IMS on a number of key committees, including publications, nominations, and fellows, for her extraordinary leadership as Program Secretary (1987-90) that culminated in forging a…
Adel Javanmard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Sciences and Operations, at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Prior to joining USC in 2015, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Science of Information, working at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. …
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Ashwin Pananjady is a final year PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, advised by Martin Wainwright and Thomas Courtade. His research interests are broadly in statistics, optimization and information theory. Specific topics of …