A special feature of the Joint Statistical Meetings is the ASA President’s Address and Awards, during which the Founders Award winners are announced and the new ASA Fellows are inducted.

Founders Award

The Founders Award recognizes members who have rendered distinguished service to the association. Those who are selected have served the association for an extended time, usually in a variety of leadership roles wherein effective service or leadership was provided within the ASA or through ASA outreach to other organizations.

David Marker
For dedicated service to the ASA over a 25-year period; for leadership of the Washington Statistical Society as president; for chairing the Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee; for service as the program chair of the Survey Research Methods Section; for service as a member of the Committee on Representatives to AAAS and the Committee on Nominations; for leadership as a member of the ASA Board of Directors; for exemplary service and leadership as vice chair of the Professional Issues and Visibility Council; and for outstanding leadership as co-chair of the Antiracism Task Force.

Jean Opsomer
For dedicated leadership and service to the American Statistical Association for more than 20 years at the national and international levels; for leadership on the Caucus of Academic Representatives, the JABES Editorial Management Committee, the Statistics and the Environment Section, the Nonparametrics Statistics Section, the Survey Research Methods Section, and Statistics Without Borders; for leadership as program chair of the Joint Statistical Meetings; and for service on the ASA Task Force on Sexual Harassment and Assault, the Edward C. Bryant Scholarship Committee, the Investments Committee, the Committee on Publications, the Noether Awards Committee, and the Committee on Energy Statistics.

Paula Roberson
For three decades of dedicated service and leadership to the American Statistical Association, especially through ASA chapters and committees and specifically as chapter representative to the Western Tennessee Chapter and president of the Central Arkansas Chapter; for leadership of the Council of Chapters, including service on the Nominating Committee and as the Council of Chapters representative to the ASA Board of Directors; for service on the Committee on Membership, Committee on Nominations, Committee on Women in Statistics, Founders Award Committee, Mentoring Award Committee, Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship Award Subcommittee, Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences, and the Constitution and By-Laws Task Force.

Stephanie Shipp
For dedicated leadership and service to the American Statistical Association for 25 years; for service on the JSM Task Force; for service on and leadership of five committees—the Committee on Professional Ethics, the Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality, the JSM Program Committee, the Committee on Fellows, and the Committee on Women in Statistics—having chaired those last two; for service on the Leadership Support Council as a council vice chair; for leadership as the JSM Program Chair for the Social Statistics Section; and for chairing the Government Statistics Section and serving as its Council of Sections representative.

Hal Stern
For dedicated leadership and service to the American Statistical Association for more than 25 years; for service on the Committee on Publications and leadership as chair of the committee; for leadership as chair of the Task Force on the Future of CHANCE; for leadership as chair of the Statistics in Sports Section; for leadership as chair of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science; for leadership as vice chair and chair of the Advisory Committee on Forensic Science; for editorial leadership as editor of CHANCE; and for editorial leadership as editor of JASA Applications & Case Studies.

ASA Fellows

Each year, ASA Fellows are nominated by the membership and selected by the ASA Committee on Fellows. Forty-eight fellows were inducted this year.

Genevera I. Allen, Rice University

Emma K.T. Benn, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Veronica J. Berrocal, University of California, Irvine

Carol Bigelow, University of Massachusetts

Kun Chen, University of Connecticut

Lakshminarayan K. Choudur, Teradata Labs

Radu V. Craiu, University of Toronto

Yuehua Cui, Michigan State University

Yang Feng, New York University

Misrak Gezmu, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Beth Ann Griffin, RAND Corporation

Stephen W. Gulyas, Everest Clinical Research Services Corporation

Christopher M. Hans, The Ohio State University

Steve Horvath, UCLA School of Medicine

Haiyan Huang, University of California, Berkeley

Wei-Ting Hwang, Perelman School of Medicine

Douglas Landsittel, Indiana University

Mark S. Levenson, US Food and Drug Administration

Fan Li, Duke University

Elizabeth Mannshardt, US Environmental Protection Agency

Kelly McConville, Harvard University

Tucker S. McElroy, US Census Bureau

Christopher Steven McMahan, Clemson University

Knashawn H. Morales, University of Pennsylvania

Steven J. Novick, AstraZeneca

R. Wayne Oldford, University of Waterloo

Jamis Jon Perrett, Bayer US – Crop Science

Megan Price, Human Rights Data Analysis Group

Abel Rodriguez, University of Washington

Satrajit Roychoudhury, Pfizer

Stephan R. Sain, Jupiter Intelligence

Claude Messan Setodji, RAND Corporation

Babak Shahbaba, UCI

Julia L. Sharp, Colorado State University

Ali Shojaie, University of Washington

Susan M. Shortreed, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Sean Lorenzo Simpson, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Lu Tian, Stanford University

Theresa L. Utlaut, Intel Corporation

Peng Wei, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Brady Thomas West, Institute for Social Research

Michael C. Wu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Xian-Jin Xie, University of Iowa

Eric Poe Xing, Carnegie Mellon University

Xinyi Xu, The Ohio State University

Wenxuan Zhong, University of Georgia

Jianhui Zhou, University of Virginia

Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard

Waksberg Award

In 2001, the journal Survey Methodology established an annual invited paper series in honor of Joseph Waksberg to recognize his contributions to survey statistics and methodology. Each year, a prominent survey statistician is chosen to write a paper that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in survey statistics and methodology and reflects the mixture of theory and practice that characterized Waksberg’s work.

The 2023 recipient of the Waksberg Award is Ray Chambers, who will give the Waksberg Invited Address and write a paper planned for publication in the December 2023 issue of Survey Methodology.

Waksberg was a giant in survey sampling for nearly seven decades, beginning at the US Census Bureau in 1940 and then moving to Westat in 1973, where he served as board chair from 1990 until his death in 2006.

The award includes an honorarium made possible by a grant from Westat.

The author of the 2023 Waksberg paper was selected by a four-person committee—Jack Gambino (chair), Kristen Olson, Giovanna Ranalli, and Denise Silva—appointed by Survey Methodology and the American Statistical Association.