Call for Nominations: 2025 WNAR Outstanding Impact Award and Lectureship
Call for IBS/WNAR Outstanding Impact Award and Lectureship: nominations due November 1, 2024.
2024 Recipient of WNAR Outstanding Impact Award and Lectureship
Congratulations to Dr. Rob Tibshirani, Stanford!
Dr. Robert J. Tibshirani is Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Statistics at Stanford University. Dr. Tibshirani’s nomination package clearly demonstrated his highly impactful research contributions to the fields of biometrics and science at large. The LASSO, his most renowned contribution, has ignited an entirely new realm of research and applications from genomics to finance, and is a cornerstone of the modern data science. Dr. Tibshirani will gave a talk in the WNAR Outstanding Impact Award Lecture at the 2024 JSM on Monday, August 5, 2024, 2pm entitled "Cooperative learning and cooperative components analysis". More information about the award and past awardees can be found on the award's website.
Important Dates:
Nominations for IBS/WNAR Outstanding Impact Award and Lectureship due November 1, 2024
Links to more information on WNAR Awards:
IBS/WNAR Outstanding Impact Award and Lectureship
WNAR Indigenous Student Travel Award
WNAR Student Paper Competition
WNAR President Invited Presentation
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WNAR Award Committee Membership
| YEARS | MEMBERS | AFFILIATION |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2026 | Rhonda Rosychuk (2023 Chair) | University of Alberta |
| 2021-2027 | Neby Bekele | Exelixis |
| 2022-2025 | Sonia Jain | University of California San Diego |
| 2024-2027 | Charlotte Gard | University of New Mexico |
| 2022-2025 | Jingyi Li |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2023-2025 | Edward Bedrick | University of Arizona |
| 2023-2025 | Bin Yu (2022 Awardee) | University of California, Berkley |
Previous Award Committee Chairs
| YEARS | MEMBERS | AFFILIATION |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | Ying Lu (Founding Chair) | Stanford University |
| 2022 | Katerina Kechris | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 2023 | Rhonda Rosychuk | University of Alberta |
| 2024 |
WNAR Awards Committee Membership