COPSS Presidents' Award

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The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies[1] 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 American Statistical Association (ASA)
The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
The Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society (ENAR)
The Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society (WNAR)

The presentation of the award takes place at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM).

[edit] Winners of the COPSS Presidents' Award

  • 1981: Peter J. Bickel, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1982: Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 1983: Tze Leung La, Stanford University
  • 1984: David V. Hinkley, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 1985: James O. Berger, Duke University
  • 1986: Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  • 1987: Chien-Fu Jeff Wu, University of Wisconsin
  • 1988: Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University
  • 1989: Peter Hall, Australian National University
  • 1990: Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago
  • 1991: Bernard Silverman, University of Bristol
  • 1992: Nancy Reid, 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. Tibshirani, University of Toronto
  • 1997: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 1998: Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud
  • 1999: Larry A. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2000: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
  • 2001: Xiao-Li Meng, University of Chicago
  • 2002: Jun Liu, Harvard University
  • 2003: Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
  • 2004: Michael A. Newton, University of Wisconsin
  • 2005: Mark J. van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2006: Xihong Lin, Harvard University
  • 2007: Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, University of Toronto