Wendy Lou, COPSS Secretary/Treasurer
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. For 2016, three awards were presented on August 3 during the Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago.
Nicolai Meinshausen of ETH Zurich is the honoree of the 2016 Presidents’ Award for his fundamental and ingenious contributions to high-dimensional inference, variable selection, multiple testing, graphical models, machine learning, and causal inference for heterogeneous data.
Amanda L. Golbeck of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences was honored with the 2016 Elizabeth L. Scott Award for her outstanding efforts to enhance the status of women and minorities; foster new leadership opportunities for women and men; promote diversity at all levels, and advocate for a more inclusive, open, and supportive atmosphere in statistical sciences.
Alice S. Whittemore of the Stanford University School of Medicine is the honoree of the 2016 R. A. Fisher Award for her fundamental contributions to biostatistics and epidemiology, covering a wide range of topics from environmental risk assessment to genetic linkage analysis, genetic association studies and cancer epidemiology; for bringing her statistical and mathematical insight to bear on the collection and interpretation of scientific data; for her leadership in large consortia of cancer studies; and for being a role model for many young scientists. Watch the webcast of her Fisher Lecture, “Personalized Disease Prevention: Statistical Challenges,”.
Nominations are wanted for the 2017 awards. Information about award criteria and nomination procedures is available on the COPSS website.
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