ASA member Scott H. Holan has been selected to serve on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s study panel, “Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery and Innovation: Opportunities Across the Department of Energy.”
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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.
H.O. Hartley
Hartley is an example of how discipline, hard work, and both a bit of genius and risk-taking can lead to a life that is admired and envied.
Kathy Ensor
As an undergraduate, Kathy Ensor was fascinated by probability, statistical graphics, statistical theory, and computers. At age 19, she wrote a Fortran program that could play chess and optimize the next move based on a simplistic probabilistic algorithm and data gleaned from the user of the program. She was thrilled to eventually land in a statistics career, though, as it captured all her interests. Hired at Rice University, she built the statistics department from the ground up and served as chair from 1999–2013. In 2021, she was elected president of the ASA and established the IDEA Forum to showcase how statisticians improve lives. While Ensor believes all these accomplishments are important, she says she derives her energy and continued commitment to the profession from the amazing community of statisticians and data scientists, her collaborators, doctoral alumni, and students whom she mentored throughout the years.
Texas A&M to Host CBMS Conference
The Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University will host the five-day CBMS conference, “Foundations of Causal Graphical Models and Structure Discovery,” May 15–19 in College Station, Texas.
Tanya Garcia
Born in Peru and raised in California, Tanya Garcia fondly remembers—as a 4-year-old—craftily fitting together the pieces of jigsaw puzzles. Puzzles took a new shape years later and her enthusiasm for solving mathematical and statistical problems blossomed. Now at UNC Chapel Hill as a tenured associate professor, Garcia works toward predicting precise, personalized, and robust progression profiles for neurodegenerative diseases.
Obituary: Clifford H. Spiegelman
Clifford H. Spiegelman, Regents Professor and Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Texas A&M University and a leader in statistical and environmental forensics, passed away May 14, 2020, in College Station at the age of 71.
Clifford Spiegelman Honored with 2016 Don Owen Award
The San Antonio Chapter honors Clifford Spiegelman for his excellence in research, statistical consultation, and service to the statistical community.