Leslie McClure says she found involvement in the ASA has allowed her to pursue her passion for increasing diversity and representation among folks traditionally underrepresented in statistics, including BIPOC statisticians, statisticians who identify as women, and LBGTQ+ statisticians.
COPSS Presidents' Award
Rina Foygel Barber Wins 2020 COPSS Presidents’ Award
The Presidents’ Award parallels the Fields Medal in mathematics and is given annually by COPSS to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession. The Presidents’ Award and International Prize in Statistics are the two highest statistics honors.
Winners of the 2020 COPSS Awards
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) presents awards annually to honor statisticians who have made outstanding contributions to the profession. For 2020, three awards were presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings on August 5 by COPSS Chair Bhramar Mukherjee and the award committee members.
Deadlines and Contact Information for ASA National Awards, Special Lectureships, and COPSS Awards
The ASA’s extensive awards program recognizes statisticians who have made outstanding contributions through research, teaching, consulting, and service to the association and statistical profession. The annual awards listing contains important 2019–2020 award deadline and contact information.
Deadlines and Contact Information for ASA National Awards, Special Lectureships, and COPSS Awards
The ASA’s extensive awards program recognizes statisticians who have made outstanding contributions through research, teaching, consulting, and service to the association and statistical profession. The annual awards listing contains important 2018-2019 award deadline and contact information.
An Interview with COPSS Award Winner VanderWeele
Tyler J. VanderWeele, recipient of the 2017 COPSS Presidents’ Award, talks about mentors, causal inference, and how ideas in philosophy and theology might inform empirical statistical research in the social and biomedical sciences.
Deadlines and Contact Information for ASA National Awards, Special Lectureships, and COPSS Awards
The ASA’s extensive awards program recognizes statisticians who have made outstanding contributions through research, teaching, consulting, and service to the association and statistical profession. The annual awards listing contains important 2018 award deadline and contact information.
Award Deadlines and Information for 2016–2017
Deadlines and contact information for ASA national awards, special lectureships, and COPSS awards
Samuel Kou Wins 2012 COPSS Presidents’ Award
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies recently recognized Samuel Kou for groundbreaking contributions to stochastic modeling and statistical inference in single molecule biophysics; for pioneering the equi-energy sampler; for fundamental contributions to Bayesian, empirical Bayes, and nonparametric methods; and for outstanding service to the statistical profession and contribution to statistical education. Read more about Kou and his reaction to winning the award.
Nilanjan Chatterjee Wins COPSS Awards
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) annually presents awards to honor statisticians under the age of 41 for their outstanding research contributions and service to further the field of statistics. This year, along with the COPSS president’s award, Nilanjan Chatterjee was selected to receive the COPSS Snedecor award. Chatterjee, known for his important and diverse contributions across biostatistics, epidemiology and genetics, spoke to Bhramar Mukherjee’s about winning the two awards.