The Penn State Department of Statistics hosted the 2025 Rao Prize Conference on May 20 to recognize leading contributors to the statistics field. Among the honorees were Trevor Hastie, recipient of the 2025 C. R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize, and Martin Wainwright, the 2025 P. R. Krishnaiah Lecturer.
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Noel Cressie Honored with Hannan Medal from Australian Academy of Science
He received the medal for his groundbreaking work in spatial statistics and environmental data science, advancing methods for analyzing climate, pollution, and other large-scale ecological phenomena.
ASA Member Finds Joining Caucus Extends Network, Allows Greater Impact
George Rodriguez explains how joining the Caucus of Industry Representatives expanded his professional network and increased his impact on the statistics profession.
ASA Deming Lecture: 2025 and Beyond
Jianjun Shi of the Georgia Institute of Technology will deliver the Deming Lecture, “From Statistical Process Control to In-Process Quality Improvement,” during the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings. Nominations for the 2026 Deming Lectureship Award are due October 15.
Kelly Zou Receives OnConferences Icon Award
ASA member Kelly Zou, head of global medical analytics at Viatris, was named a Top 100 Data and Analytics Professional by OnConferences, earning the peer-voted Icon Award at OnCon 2025.
JASA Reproducibility Award Winners Named
Zihang Wang, Irina Gaynanova, Aleksandr Aravkin, Benjamin B. Risk, Wentao Zhan, and Abhirup Datta received the 2024 JASA Reproducibility Award for their exemplary work in computational reproducibility in statistical research.
Student Team Develops Physical Therapy Tool at Columbia Hackathon
At Columbia’s HackingHealth event, Angela Choi teamed up with Trisha Mehta and Doorva Garg to build REV!VE—a tool that helps physical therapy patients stick with their recovery plans through real-time motion tracking.
Obituary:Tracey Gmoser
Gmoser was not just known for her professional accomplishments, but also for her genuine kindness, her unwavering support for those around her, and her passion for helping others succeed.
Tibshirani Gives Brogan Lecture on UniLasso
At this year’s Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics, Stanford’s Robert Tibshirani unveiled UniLasso, a two-stage approach that preserves the signs of the univariate coefficients and leverages their magnitude.
A. Philip Dawid Awarded David Cox Foundations of Statistics Award
A. Philip Dawid is the second recipient of the David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award, presented by the American Statistical Association for groundbreaking contributions that have fundamentally shaped the foundations of statistical science across multiple domains. Dawid will receive the award and deliver a lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings in August.