COPSS Presidents' Award
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The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a person under the age of 40, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics
. It is awarded by the five sponsoring statistical societies:
The presentation of the award takes place at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings
(JSM).
Note: Listed are recipients' working institutions when awarded COPSS.
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
. It is awarded by the five sponsoring statistical societies:
- The American Statistical AssociationAmerican Statistical AssociationThe American Statistical Association , is the main professional US organization for statisticians and related professions. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest, continuously operating professional society in the United States...
(ASA) - The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
- The Institute of Mathematical StatisticsInstitute of Mathematical StatisticsThe Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts of the world...
(IMS) - The Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric SocietyInternational Biometric SocietyThe International Biometric Society is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences....
(ENAR) - The Western North American Region of the International Biometric SocietyInternational Biometric SocietyThe International Biometric Society is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences....
(WNAR)
The presentation of the award takes place at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings
Joint Statistical Meetings
The Joint Statistical Meetings is a professional conference/academic conference for statisticians held annually every year since 1840 . Billed as "the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America", JSM has attracted over 5000 participants in recent years...
(JSM).
Winners of the COPSS Presidents' Award
- 1981: Peter J. BickelPeter J. BickelPeter John Bickel is an American statistician, Professor of Statistics in University of California, Berkeley, who is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences...
, University of California, Berkeley - 1982: Stephen FienbergStephen FienbergStephen Elliott Fienberg is the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University....
, Carnegie Mellon University - 1983: Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University
- 1984: David V. HinkleyDavid V. HinkleyDavid V. Hinkley is a statistician known for his research in statistical models and inference and for his graduate-level books.-Research and graduate textbooks:He earned a PhD from the Imperial College London under the supervision of David R. Cox...
, University of California, Santa Barbara - 1985: James O. Berger, Duke University
- 1986: Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- 1987: C.F. Jeff WuC.F. Jeff WuC.F. Jeff Wu is a statistician known for his work on the convergence of the EM algorithm,resampling methods like bootstrap and jackknife, design of experiments, and robust parameter design .- Notes and references :*- Sources and links :*...
, University of Wisconsin - 1988: Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University
- 1989: Peter HallPeter Hall (mathematical statistician)Peter Gavin Hall FAA FRS is an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics.-Biography:Hall was born to radio-physics pioneer Ruby Payne-Scott and telephone technician William Holman Hall...
, Australian National University - 1990: Peter McCullaghPeter McCullaghPeter McCullagh is an Irish statistician, originally from Plumbridge, Northern Ireland. He attended Birmingham University and completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London under Sir David Cox and Anthony Atkinson. He is currently the John D...
, University of Chicago - 1991: Bernard SilvermanBernard SilvermanBernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...
, University of Bristol - 1992: Nancy ReidNancy ReidNancy Margaret Reid is a Canadian theoretical statistician.She was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia from 1980–5, then joined the University of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming a full professor in 1988.Reid won the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1992 and...
, University of Toronto - 1993: Wing-Hung Wong, Harvard University
- 1994: David L. Donoho, Stanford University
- 1995: Iain M. Johnstone, University of California, Berkeley
- 1996: Robert J. TibshiraniRobert TibshiraniRobert Tibshirani is a Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. He was a Professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998. In his work, he develops statistical tools for the analysis of complex datasets, most recently in genomics and...
, University of Toronto - 1997: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
- 1998: Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud
- 1999: Larry A. WassermanLarry A. WassermanLarry A. Wasserman is a Canadian statistician and a professor in the Department of Statistics and the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University...
, Carnegie Mellon University - 2000: Jianqing FanJianqing FanJianqing Fan , is a Chinese statistician. He is the current Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance, and Professor of Statistics at the Princeton University...
, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - 2001: Xiao-Li MengXiao-Li MengXiao-Li Meng is an award-winning Chinese-American statistician, and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2001...
, University of Chicago - 2002: Jun LiuJun LiuJun Liu is an award-winning Chinese-American statistician. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2002. He is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and has written many research papers and a book about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, including their...
, Harvard University - 2003: Andrew GelmanAndrew GelmanAndrew Gelman is an American statistician, professor of statistics and political science, and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. He earned an S.B. in mathematics and in physics from MIT in 1986 and a Ph.D...
, Columbia University - 2004: Michael A. NewtonMichael A. NewtonMichael A. Newton is an award-winning Canadian statistician. He is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2004...
, University of Wisconsin - 2005: Mark J. van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley
- 2006: Xihong LinXihong LinXihong Lin is an award-winning Chinese-American statistician. She is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at Harvard University. Lin has written many research papers about statistical genetics, linear mixed models, bias...
, Harvard University - 2007: Jeffrey S. RosenthalJeffrey S. RosenthalJeffrey S. Rosenthal is an award-winning Canadian statistician and author. He is a professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Statistics. He received the CRM-SSC Prize in 2006 and the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2007...
, University of Toronto - 2008: T. Tony CaiT. Tony CaiT. Tony Cai , is a Chinese statistician. He is the current Dorothy Silberberg Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...
, University of Pennsylvania - 2009: Rafael Irizarry, Johns Hopkins University
- 2010: David Dunson, Duke University
- 2011: Nilanjan Chatterjee, National Cancer Institute
Note: Listed are recipients' working institutions when awarded COPSS.