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Wu Selected for 2011 COPSS Fisher Lecture Award
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Jeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and professor in the H.
Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), was
selected by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) as the
recipient of the 2011 COPPS Fisher Lecture Award.
The Fisher
Lecture Award is a prestigious honor, and “a very high recognition of
meritorious achievement and scholarship in statistical science and recognizes
highly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations.”
Wu delivered
the Fisher Lecture, entitled Post-Fisherian
Experimentation: From Physical To Virtual, on August 3, 2011 at the Joint
Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Miami Beach, Florida. JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians
held in North America and draws more than 6,000 attendees.
Wu’s
research contributions span the full range of statistics, from theory to
application, and touch many applied domains, from sample surveys to nanotechnology.
They are notable for their combination of novelty, technical strength, and
far-reaching vision. He has made especially significant contributions to
experimental design.
Wu's
honors include membership on the National Academy of Engineering, Member of Academia
Sinica, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Presidents Award in
1987, honorary professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an honorary doctor
of mathematics at University of Waterloo. He earned his BS in Mathematics from
National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of
California, Berkeley. Wu joined Georgia Tech in the summer of 2003.
The R.A.
Fisher Lectureship was established in 1963 by COPSS to honor both the
contributions of Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher and the work of a present-day
statistician for their advancement of statistical theory and applications. COPSS has required that the Lectureship be
awarded each year and that when possible the lecture be presented each year at
the Joint Annual Meeting of Societies.
The
purpose of COPSS is to work on shared problems and improve intersociety
communication. Possible activities for COPSS include but are not limited to the
coordination of the calendar of statistical meetings, the preparation of
material to inform students about statistics when they are choosing a
profession, the sponsoring of lecture series and prizes, and the production of
statistical directories.
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- Created By: Ashley Daniel
- Created: 08/04/2011
- Modified By: Fletcher Moore
- Modified: 05/26/2022
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