IDEAL faculty member Veronika Rockova has been awarded the COPSS award. This is the highest award in statistics.

“For path-breaking contributions to theory and methodology at the intersection of Bayesian and frequentist Statistics in the areas of variable selection, factor models, non-parametric Bayes, tree-based and deep-learning methods, high-dimensional inference, generative methods for Bayesian computation; for exemplary service to Statistics and for generous mentorship of students and post-doctoral researchers.”

Read more: The official announcement and citation is here Presidents’ Award – Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) (amstat.org)