COPSS Presidents' Award

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 arguably the most prestigious award in statistics, the Nobel Prize 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).

Winners of the COPSS Presidents' Award

• 1981: Peter J. Bickel, University of California, Berkeley
• 1982: Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
• 1983: Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University
• 1984: David V. Hinkley, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1985: James O. Berger, Purdue University, now Duke University
• 1986: Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• 1987: C.F. Jeff Wu, University of Wisconsin, now Georgia Institute of Technology
• 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 Bath
• 1992: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto
• 1993: Wing-Hung Wong, University of Chicago, now Stanford University
• 1994: David L. Donoho, Stanford University
• 1995: Iain M. Johnstone, University of California, Berkeley, now Stanford University
• 1996: Robert J. Tibshirani, University of Toronto, now Stanford University
• 1997: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
• 1998: Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud
• 1999: Larry A. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University
• 2000: Jianqing Fan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, now Princeton University
• 2001: Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
• 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
• 2008: T. Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania
• 2009: Rafael A. Irizarry, Johns Hopkins University, now Harvard University
• 2010: David Dunson, Duke University
• 2011: Nilanjan Chatterjee, National Cancer Institute
• 2012: Samuel Kou, Harvard University
• 2013: Marc A. Suchard, UCLA
• 2014: Martin J. Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley

Note: Listed are recipients' working institutions when awarded COPSS.

Peter J. Bickel, James O. Berger, Ross L. Prentice, C.F. Jeff Wu, Raymond J. Carroll are also R. A. Fisher Lecturers.

See also

• R. A. Fisher Lectureship
• George W. Snedecor Award
• Elizabeth L. Scott Award
• Florence Nightingale David Award

References