Daniela Witten is frustrated with (some of) her students “outsourcing their brains to LLMs”:   For decades, the university classroom was as if frozen in time: blackboards became whiteboards and transparencies transformed to Beamer*, but that was about it. But early 2020 brought with it a series of…

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This workshop will be an in-person event at ICAIF 2025, taking place on November 15, 2025 in Singapore. The session will cover invited keynote talks, paper presentation, and a panel discussion. Advancements in AI and data science are fundamentally reshaping the digital finance landscape, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance financial…

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Grace Y. Yi is the Statistical Society of Canada 2025 Gold Medal recipient. Grace is professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science at the University of Western Ontario. She joined Western in July 2019 after nearly two decades at the University of Waterloo, where she began as…

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The CRM–SSC Prize in Statistics recognizes a statistical scientist’s excellence and accomplishments in research during the first 15 years after their doctorate. It is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada. This year’s winner is Linglong Kong, University of Alberta. Born…

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Simos Meintanis, who passed away on February 14, 2025, was a Professor of Statistics & Econometrics in the Department of Economic Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Simos was born on January 1, 1959, in Athens, Greece. He studied Mathematics and Statistics in Greece (Athens University…

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