Members of the Rao Prize Committee are accepting nominations for the C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize for Outstanding Research in Statistics. The prize, awarded by the Penn State Department of Statistics, was established to recognize outstanding and influential innovations in the theory and practice of mathematical statistics, international leadership in directing statistical research, and pioneering contributions by a recognized leader in the statistics field.
2023: David Siegmund, Stanford University
2019: Grace Wahba, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017: Donald Rubin, Harvard University
2015: Sir David R. Cox, University of Oxford
2013: Herman Chernoff, Harvard University (emeritus) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Rao Prize is awarded in odd-numbered years to an individual selected by the members of the Rao Prize Committee. The honoree receives a plaque and an invitation to visit Penn State to give a talk.
Nominations should include a letter describing the nominee’s outstanding contributions to leadership and research in statistics, a current curriculum vita, and two supporting letters.
Submissions are due January 15, 2025, and should be emailed to Nicole Lazar, head of the department of statistics.
C. R. Rao held the Eberly Chair in Statistics at Penn State from 1988–2001. He now serves as holder emeritus of the Eberly Chair in Statistics. He was the founding director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis. A President’s National Medal of Science Laureate, Rao is recognized worldwide as a pioneer of modern statistical theory and one of the world’s top five statisticians, with multifaceted distinctions as a mathematician, researcher, scientist, and teacher. His contributions to mathematics, statistical theory, and applications have become part of undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, econometrics, and electrical engineering at universities worldwide.
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