Awards

Cun-Hui Zhang, Ph.D., Rutgers University For fundamental and influential contributions in statistical theory and methods, especially in nonparametric statistics; for exemplifying service to and leadership in statistical communities, including the International Chinese Statistical Association; for outstanding mentorship of students and colleagues.

Heping Zhang, Ph.D., Yale University In recognition and appreciation of his outstanding service to ICSA for over two decades and his leadership as 2019 ICSA President and a member of the ICSA Board of Directors (2001-2004).

Yi Tsong, Director, Division of Biometrics VI, CDER, FDA In recognition and appreciation of his dedication and outstanding service to ICSA, especially􀀃his longstanding contributions to ICSA activities and his leadership as ICSA President (2006), ICSAExecutive Director (2001-2003), and a member of the ICSA Board of Directors (1995-1997).

Yifei Sun, Ph.D., Columbia University For her important and outstanding research for lifetime data science, in particular, her novel contribution for recurrent event analysis, stochastic lifetime processes, biased sampling, and predictive modeling.

Anru Zhang, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison For his significant contributions to high-dimensional statistical inference, non-convex optimization, statistical learning theory, and particularly for his fundamental contributions to tensor learning.

Ji Zhu, Ph.D., University of Michigan For his impactful contributions and pioneering work in the areas of statistical machine learning, statistical network analysis, and their applications in physics and healthcare; for his excellence in teaching, studentadvising, and service to the profession; and for his engagement in and promotion of statistics educationand research in China.

The 2020 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium was originally scheduled to be held from May 17 to 19, 2020, at Westin Galleria Houston, Houston, Texas.  Due to COVID-19 pandemic, this Symposium was postponed to December 13-16, 2020 hosted online. Despite many challenges that COVID-19 has presented, the 2020 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium was held very successfully. […]

  Year ICSA Student Paper Awards’ Recipients 2019 Zhou Lan, Ph.D candidate, North Carolina State University Geostatistical Modeling of Positive Definite Matrices Using the Spatial Wishart Process Xiangyu Liu, Ph.D candidate, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Semiparametric Modelling and Estimation of the Global Percentile Outcome Jitong Lou, Ph.D candidate, University of North […]