This month, we’re spotlighting Jovana Mitic, a PhD statistics student at Clemson. She wants to be a data scientist or applied statistician doing modeling that actually gets used, particularly in public health applications.
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Bayesian Decision Agents: The Next Frontier in Real-Time Risk Intelligence
According to Anand Chinnakannan, there is a new way of thinking in decision intelligence: Agent-Assisted Bayesian Updating.
Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society: Insights from JSM 2025
The conference showcased the central role of statistics in shaping the age of AI and featured high-profile lectures; timely sessions on causal inference, data privacy, and omics research; and memorials honoring leaders in the field.
My ASA Story: Miranda L. Lynch, Research Assistant Professor
Miranda L. Lynch joined the ASA in 2003, when she was a student working on her Master of Integrated Science degree at the University of Colorado at Denver. Read about her involvement over the years.
Mallick Honored with Regents Professor Award
ASA Fellow 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.
JSM 2024: Veronika Rockova Wins COPSS Presidents’ Award
The COPSS Presidents’ Award, which is awarded annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. Veronika Rockova wins
Proposals Wanted for Joint Bayesian Statistics Event
Organized by the Brazilian Chapter of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis, the 7th Latin American Meeting on Bayesian Statistics will be held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, December 2–6. This is a joint event with the 17th Brazilian Meeting on Bayesian Statistics.
Statistics and Data Science Hall of Fame
ASA President Dionne Price welcomes your nominations to the Statistics and Data Science Hall of Fame.
Merlise A. Clyde
Growing up, Merlise Clyde loved science, math, and the outdoors but really had no idea about careers in mathematics, let alone statistics. She discovered statistics while at Oregon State University studying forestry ecology. There was no major in statistics then, but she took every statistics course she could fit into her degree. Clyde ultimately earned her PhD in statistics from the University of Minnesota. She is best known for her research in Bayesian model selection/model averaging with mixtures of g-priors (and the associated R package BAS); however, her greatest accomplishment has been in Bayesian nonparametric regression using Lévy processes for Lévy adaptive regression kernels.
My ASA Story: Arinjita Bhattacharyya, Senior Scientist
Arinjita Bhattacharyya is an early-career statistician working as a senior scientist in the biostatistics and research decision sciences division at Merck & Co.