Dr. Xiao-Li Meng (孟晓犁), the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics, Harvard University, shared his personal journey “Following your curiosity” in a recent interview with Dr. Adel Daoud. This interview highlights his perspective academic excellence, leadership, and following one’s curiosity. Dr. Meng is well known for his depth […]
Congratulations to Dr. Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania, who is the 2022 recipient of the SIAM Activity Group on Data Science Early Career Prize, which was awarded at the 2022 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS22) on Thursday, September 29 in San Diego, California. He gave a lecture associated with the prize, titled “When Will You […]
This ICSA Midwest and NIC-ASA joint fall meeting will be held at Hilton Hotel, Northbrook, IL from October 5 – 6, 2022. This meeting will be a face-to-face event. Stephanie Dunbar, AbbVie VP and Head of Statistical Sciences and Analytics, will be the keynote speaker. The registration will be open until September 28, 2022. To […]
ICSA Bulletin February 2023
The 2022 Peter Hall Lecture will be delivered by Professor Song Xi Chen of Peking University, China, at the 2022 ICSA International Conference in Hong Kong with the specific dates to be determined. In honor of Professor Peter Hall’s life and achievements and his contributions to the ICSA, the ICSA has established the Peter Hall […]
Award ICSA Member Name Affiliate Outstanding Statistical Application Award Xiaoou Li Univ. of Minnesota Outstanding Statistical Application Award Tianxi Cai Harvard Univ. Mentor Award David Morganstein Westat, retired Deming Lecturer Award David Banks Duke Univ. Medallion Lecture II Huixia Judy Wang The George Washington Univ. Leadership Academy Xi Chen New York Univ.
Academician Yuan-Shih Chow passed away on March 3, 2022. Academician Chow is well known for his academic contributions to the theories of martingale, stopping rule and sequential analysis. There will be a conference held at the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica (ISSAS) during December 15-16, 2022 with a theme in Memory of Academician Yuan-Shih […]
The 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) will be held in Toronto, Canada, on August 5 – 10, 2023. Two invited sessions will be allocated for the ICSA. One of these two sessions will be dedicated for Statistics in Biosciences. The other one is open for application. The theme for JSM 2023 is “One Community: Informing […]
Dr. Xihong Lin, Prof. of Biostatistics and coordinating director of the Program in Quantitative Geonomics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). NAS members are elected in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research” and is “one of the highest honors […]
