The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the

Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) comprises the presidents, past presidents and presidents-elect of the following, primarily Northern American, professional societies of statisticians: * American Statistical Association * ...

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. 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

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuousl ...

(ASA) * The

Statistical Society of Canada The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) (french: Société statistique du Canada) is a professional organization whose mission is to promote the use and development of statistics and probability. Its objectives are * to make the general public aw ...

(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 o ...

(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 ...

(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 attr ...

(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, Duke University * 1986: Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center * 1987: C.F. Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology * 1988: Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University * 1989: Peter Hall, Australian National University * 1990:

Peter McCullagh Peter McCullagh (born 8 January 1952) is a Northern Irish-born American statistician and John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago. Education McCullagh is from Plumbridge ...

, 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 a ...

, University of Oxford * 1992:

Nancy Reid Nancy Margaret Reid (born September 17, 1952) is a Canadian theoretical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory. In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian Ins ...

, 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 Wisco ...

, Stanford University * 1994:

David L. Donoho David Leigh Donoho (born March 5, 1957) is an American statistician. He is a professor of statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. His work includes the develop ...

, Stanford University * 1995: Iain M. Johnstone, Stanford University * 1996: Robert J. Tibshirani, Stanford University * 1997:

Kathryn Roeder Kathryn M. Roeder is an American statistician known for her development of statistical methods to uncover the genetic basis of complex disease and her contributions to mixture models, semiparametric inference, and multiple testing. Roeder holds po ...

, 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 Xiao-Li Meng (; born 1963) is a Chinese American statistician and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2001. He has written numerous research papers about Markov chai ...

, Harvard University * 2002:

Jun Liu Jun Liu (; born 12 December 1997), or Liu Jun, is a Malaysian choreographer, dancer and singer. He has produced dance choreographies for Jackson Yee, GOT7, Rocket Girls 101, Nine Percent. In 2021, he participated in the Chinese male group surv ...

, 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, University of Wisconsin * 2005: Mark J. van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley * 2006: Xihong Lin, Harvard University * 2007:

Jeff Rosenthal Jeffrey Seth Rosenthal (born October 13, 1967 in Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario) is a Canadian statistician and nonfiction author. He is a professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Statistics, cross-appointed with Univer ...

, University of Toronto * 2008: T. Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania * 2009: Rafael Irizarry, Harvard University * 2010: David Dunson, Duke University * 2011: Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University * 2012: Samuel Kou, Harvard University * 2013: Marc A. Suchard, UCLA * 2014: Martin J. Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley * 2015: John D. Storey, Princeton University * 2016: Nicolai Meinshausen, ETH Zürich * 2017: Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard University * 2018: Richard J. Samworth, University of Cambridge * 2019:

Hadley Wickham Hadley Alexander Wickham (born 14 October 1979) is a statistician from New Zealand and Chief Scientist at Posit, PBC (former RStudio Inc.) and an adjunct Professor of statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice Un ...

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, Inc. * 2020: Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago * 2021: Jeffrey T. Leek, Johns Hopkins University * 2022: Daniela Witten, University of Washington Note: Listed are recipients' current working institutions not when awarded COPSS. Peter J. Bickel, Stephen Fienberg, James O. Berger, Ross L. Prentice, C.F. Jeff Wu, Raymond J. Carroll,

are also R. A. Fisher Lecturers.

References

{{reflist Statistical awards Awards established in 1981

Winners of the COPSS Presidents' Award

See also

References