Bani K. Mallick, a professor in the department of statistics at Texas A&M University, was recently designated a Regents Professor by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The Regents Professor Award, established in 1996, honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to their university, their field, and the people of Texas.
“Each of these distinguished individuals has made significant contributions to their fields and to the state of Texas,” said Bill Mahomes, the board of regents’ chair. “Their achievements embody the A&M system’s mission of service and innovation, and I hope their dedication will motivate others.”
As a Regents Professor, Mallick will carry the perpetual title for the duration of his service to the A&M system and receive commemorative memorabilia during a special ceremony.
Mallick has been a faculty member at Texas A&M since 1998 and is widely regarded as a pioneer in Bayesian nonparametric regression and classification. He served as the director and principal investigator of the National Science Foundation’s Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science Institute of Data Science Phase 1 and currently directs the Center for Statistical Bioinformatics at Texas A&M.
Over the course of his three-decade career, Mallick has developed groundbreaking methodology and theory that form the foundation of interdisciplinary research across numerous fields. His work in Bayesian modeling and computation has garnered support from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, and US Department of Defense.
Mallick is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. His past honors include the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Indian Statistical Association, the Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair award for 2017–2018, the Texas A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Awards in Research in 2006 and Graduate Mentoring in 2019, and the University of Connecticut Department of Statistics Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2020–2021. He is currently the joint editor-in-chief of the SIAM/ASA journal Uncertainty Quantification.
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