{"69163":{"#nid":"69163","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wu Selected for 2011 COPSS Fisher Lecture Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EC.F.\nJeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and professor in the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia\nTech, was selected by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nisla05.niss.org\/copss\/?q=copss\u0022\u003ECommittee of Presidents of Statistical Societies\u003C\/a\u003E\n(COPSS) as the recipient of the 2011 COPPS Fisher Lecture Award.\u0026nbsp; The prestigious Fisher Lecture Award is\nawarded to an individual who has very high recognition of meritorious\nachievement and scholarship in statistical science and recognizes highly\nsignificant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\nreceive the award for his \u201cfundamental contributions to the planning,\nanalysis and interpretation of statistical studies that have had a profound\nimpact on the practice of statistics, especially in engineering; this includes\nsignificant results on resampling methods, theory of experimental design and\npioneering work in industrial statistics that have changed the way statistical\nstudies are used to optimize products and processes.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\u2019s\nresearch contributions span the full range of statistics, from theory to\napplication, and touch many applied domains, from sample surveys to\nnanotechnology. They are notable for their combination of novelty, technical\nstrength, and far-reaching vision. He has made especially significant\ncontributions to experimental design. As one of his supporters wrote, \u201cIn view\nof Professor Wu\u2019s contribution to design of experiments, it is particularly\nfitting for him to deliver a lecture that honors R. A. Fisher, commonly\nregarded as father of the modern theory of experimental design.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\nR.A. Fisher Lectureship was established in 1963 by COPSS to honor both the\ncontributions of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Fisher\u0022\u003ESir Ronald Aylmer Fisher\u003C\/a\u003E and the work of a present-day\nstatistician for their advancement of statistical theory and applications.\u0026nbsp; COPSS has required that the Lectureship be\nawarded each year and that when possible the lecture be presented each year at\nthe Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), the largest gathering of\nstatistician held in North America. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\ndelivered the Fisher Lecture, entitled \u003Cem\u003EPost-Fisherian\nExperimentation: From Physical To Virtual\u003C\/em\u003E, on August 3, 2011 at the JSM in\nMiami Beach, Florida with over 1000 attendees.\u0026nbsp;\n\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECOPSS\nsponsors two prestigious awards, the COPSS President\u2019s Award and the COPSS\nFisher Lecture Award.\u0026nbsp; The former is\ngiven to the best statistician under the age of 40 and the latter is for\nlifetime achievements.\u0026nbsp; In 1987, Wu\nreceived the COPSS President\u2019s Award.\u0026nbsp;\nBesides Wu, only three other individuals have received both of these\nprestigious awards.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\u0027s\nother honors include membership on the National Academy of Engineering, Member\nof Academia Sinica, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Presidents\nAward in 1987, honorary professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an\nhonorary doctor of mathematics at University of Waterloo. He earned his BS in\nMathematics from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the\nUniversity of California, Berkeley.\u0026nbsp;Wu joined Georgia Tech in the summer\nof 2003.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EC.F.\nJeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and professor in the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia\nTech, was selected by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nisla05.niss.org\/copss\/?q=copss\u0022\u003ECommittee of Presidents of Statistical Societies\u003C\/a\u003E\n(COPSS) as the recipient of the 2011 COPPS Fisher Lecture Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-08-04 10:42:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:52","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49771":{"id":"49771","type":"image","title":"C. 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