We are very pleased to announce that Professor and Department Chair Jiming Jiang has received the 2023-2024 SAE Award (full name: Award for Outstanding Contribution to Small Area Estimation). Professor Jiang received the award during the SAE 2023-2024: Small Area Estimation & Data Science, A Conference Celebrating the 65th Birthday of Prof. Partha Lahiri, which was held on June 3-7 in Lima, Peru .
We are delighted to announce that Associate Professor Xiaodong Li has been selected as a Chancellor's Fellow for 2022-23. Congratulations Professor Li!
We are very excited to announce that Distinguished Professor Jane-Ling Wang has been elected as Academician of Academia Sinica at the 34th Convocation of Academicians, held from July 4 to July 7, 2022 in Taipei, Taiwan. (The election was delayed for two years due to the Covid 19 pandemic, so it was in fact the 33rd Academicians election.)
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Prabir Burman has been named among the 2021 Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Many congratulations to Prabir on receiving this well-deserved honor!
We are very pleased to announce that Distinguished Professor Hans-Georg Müller has been selected to deliver the 2022 Rietz Lecture, one of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Special Lectures (https://imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/). He will deliver the lecture at the 2022 IMS Annual Meeting in London. The Rietz Lecture is given only every three years and is one of the highest academic honors bestowed by the IMS.
We are pleased to announce that our new Assistant Professor of Statistics, Jairo Fúquene Patiño, has been recognized as a 2020 CAMPOS faculty scholar by the UC Davis Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science, or CAMPOS. The center focuses on building diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
We are very pleased to announce that Distinguished Professor Jane-Ling Wang has been named as the recipient of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award, by the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation. This was awarded in recognition of Jane-Ling's academic achievements.
Congratulations to our colleagues Jiming and Thomas for being among the leading scientists elected as 2019 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are in a group of ten fellows from UC Davis. AAAS Fellows are honored for their invaluable contributions to science and technology.
We are pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Xiaodong Li won the NSF Career Award in 2019. His award is titled "Statistical Analysis of Nonconvex Optimization in Unsupervised Learning."
We are pleased to announce that Professor Ethan Anderes has been selected to receive the College of Letters and Science Award for Distinguished Teaching for AY 2018-19. Congratulations Professor Anderes!
