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.
Trevor Hastie
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People News—July 2018
Awards, honors, and other news about ASA members for July 2018.
Daniela Witten
Daniela Witten is the recipient of a number of honors, including an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award and the Gertrude Cox Scholarship. She is committed to translating key concepts in statistical machine learning to a broad scientific audience and is also a co-author of the extremely popular textbook, Introduction to Statistical Learning.