The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The COPSS Presidents' Award is generally regarded as one of the highest honours in the field of statistics, along with the

International Prize in Statistics The International Prize in Statistics is awarded every two years to an individual or team "for major achievements using statistics to advance science, technology and human welfare". The International Prize in Statistics, along with the COPSS Presi ...

. Specifically, eligible candidates either i) will be under age 41 throughout the award calendar year, or ii) will be under age 46 throughout the award calendar year and will have received a terminal statistically-related degree no more than 12 years prior to that year. For example, an individual eligible for 2016 nomination under (ii) must have been born in 1971 or later with terminal statistically-related degree dated 2004 or later. Prior to 2005 the award was given to a statistician not yet having reached his or her 41st birthday during the calendar year of the award. The COPSS Presidents' Award is awarded by the five sponsoring statistical societies: * The

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(ASA) * The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) * The

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The 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 ...

(IMS) * The Eastern North American Region of the

International Biometric Society The International Biometric Society (IBS) is an international professional and academic society promoting the development and application of statistical and mathematical theory and methods in the biosciences, including biostatistics. It sponsors t ...

(ENAR) * The Western North American Region of the

(WNAR) The presentation of the award takes place at the annual

Joint Statistical Meetings The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is a professional conference/academic conference for statisticians held annually every year since 1840 (usually in August). Billed as "the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America", JSM has attra ...

(JSM).

Winners of the COPSS Presidents' Award

* 1981:

Peter J. Bickel Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Education and career Bickel studied physics at the California Institute of Technology. He graduated from University ...

, University of California, Berkeley * 1982:

Stephen Fienberg Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a Professor Emeritus (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz Co ...

, Carnegie Mellon University * 1983:

Tze Leung Lai Tze Leung Lai (born June 28, 1945 in Hong Kong) is an American statistician. As of 2020, he is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1967. He rec ...

, Stanford University * 1984:

David V. Hinkley David Victor Hinkley (10 September 1944 – 11 January 2019) was a statistician known for his research in statistical models and inference and for his graduate-level books. Early life David Victor Hinkley was born on 10 September 1944 in Kent, E ...

, University of California, Santa Barbara * 1985: James O. Berger, Duke University * 1986:

Ross L. Prentice Ross L. Prentice (born October 16, 1946) is a Canadian statistician known particularly for his contributions to survival analysis and statistical methods for epidemiology. He has worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1974 and is ...

, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center * 1987:

C.F. Jeff Wu Chien-Fu Jeff Wu (born 1949) is the Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on the convergenc ...

, Georgia Institute of Technology * 1988:

Raymond J. Carroll Raymond James Carroll is an American statistician, and Distinguished Professor of statistics, nutrition and toxicology at Texas A&M University. He is a recipient of 1988 COPSS Presidents' Award and 2002 R. A. Fisher Lectureship. He has made fun ...

, Texas A&M University * 1989: Peter Hall, Australian National University * 1990: Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago * 1991:

Bernard Silverman Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department ...

, University of Oxford * 1992: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto * 1993:

Wing Hung Wong Wing Hung Wong () is a Chinese-American statistician, computational biologist, and Stanford University professor. Biography Wong graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 with a bachelor's degree. At the University of Wisc ...

, Stanford University * 1994: David L. Donoho, Stanford University * 1995:

Iain M. Johnstone Iain Murray Johnstone (born 1956) is an Australian born statistician who is the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. Education Johnstone was born in Melbourne in 1956. In 1 ...

, Stanford University * 1996: Robert J. Tibshirani, Stanford University * 1997: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University * 1998: Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud * 1999:

Larry A. Wasserman Larry Alan Wasserman (born 1959) is a Canadian-American statistician and a professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Biography Wasserman received his Ph.D. from t ...

, Carnegie Mellon University * 2000: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University * 2001: Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University * 2002: Jun Liu, Harvard University * 2003:

Andrew Gelman Andrew Eric Gelman (born February 11, 1965) is an American statistician and professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University. Gelman received bachelor of science degrees in mathematics and in physics from MIT, where he was ...

, Columbia University * 2004:

Michael A. Newton Michael Abbott Newton (born July 19, 1964, Baddeck, Nova Scotia) is a 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, an ...

, University of Wisconsin * 2005:

Mark J. van der Laan Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and ...

, University of California, Berkeley * 2006:

Xihong Lin Xihong Lin () is a Chinese-American statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics. , she is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Depar ...

, Harvard University * 2007: Jeff Rosenthal, University of Toronto * 2008:

T. Tony Cai Tianwen Tony Cai (; born March, 1967) is a Chinese statistician. He is the Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics and Vice Dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of Applied Math & Computational ...

, University of Pennsylvania * 2009: Rafael Irizarry, Harvard University * 2010:

David Dunson David Brian Dunson (born 1972) is an American statistician who is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science, Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University.

, Duke University * 2011:

Nilanjan Chatterjee Nilanjan Chatterjee is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, with appointments in the Department of Biostatistics in the Bloomberg School of Public Health and in the Departmen ...

, Johns Hopkins University * 2012:

Samuel Kou Shingchang "Samuel" Kou (; born in 1974) is a Chinese American statistician and Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. Biography He earned a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics at Peking University. He graduated in 1997 and the ...

, Harvard University * 2013:

Marc A. Suchard Marc Adam Suchard (born December 23, 1972 in California) is an American statistician. He is Professor in the Departments of Biomathematics and of Human Genetics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and in the Department of Biostatistics ...

, UCLA * 2014:

Martin J. Wainwright Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Aust ...

, University of California, Berkeley * 2015:

John D. Storey John D. Storey is the William R. Harman '63 and Mary-Love Harman Professor in Genomics at Princeton University. His research is focused on statistical inference of high-dimensional data, particularly genomic data. Storey was the founding director ...

, Princeton University * 2016:

Nicolai Meinshausen Nicolai may refer to: * Nicolai (given name) people with the forename ''Nicolai'' * Nicolai (surname) people with the surname ''Nicolai'' * Nicolai (crater), a crater on the Moon See also * Niccolai, a surname * Nicolae (disambiguation) * Nico ...

, ETH Zürich * 2017: Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard University * 2018: Richard J. Samworth, University of Cambridge * 2019: Hadley Wickham, RStudio, Inc. * 2020:

Rina Foygel Barber Rina Foygel Barber (known until 2012 as Rina Foygel) is an American statistician whose research includes works on the Bayesian statistics of graphical models, false discovery rates, and regularization. She is the Louis Block Professor of statis ...

, University of Chicago * 2021:

Jeffrey T. Leek Jeffrey Tullis Leek is an American biostatistician and data scientist working as a Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is an author of the Simply Statistics blog, and runs several online courses through Coursera, as ...

, Johns Hopkins University * 2022:

Daniela Witten Daniela M. Witten is an American biostatistician. She is a professor and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Washington. Her research investigates the use of machine learning to understand high-dime ...

, University of Washington Note: Listed are recipients' current working institutions not when awarded COPSS.

, James O. Berger,

, Kathryn Roeder,

are also R. A. Fisher Lecturers.

References

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