Alex Aue of the statistics departement, a UCD4IDS steering committee member, was recently elected as a 2024 AAAS Fellow with the following citation:

"For distinguished contributions to the field of time series and change-point analysis, in particular for complex models, such as functional and high-dimensional data.”

Congratulations, Alex! You certainly deserve this honor!

All the best,

Naoki Saito

Prof. Mariel Vázquez, our long-time member, recently received the 2024 ADVANCE Scholar Award from the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science (CAMPOS). Please see the details at Mariel Vázquez Named 2024 ADVANCE Scholar Award Recipient | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

Our member, Krishna Balasubramanian (Stat), and our former members Shiqian Ma (Rice Univ.) and Jiaxiang Li (Univ. Minnesota) with their three more collaborators won the 2024 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize for their path-breaking work in Riemannian optimization that involves minimizing an objective function over a Riemannian manifold. The ICS Prize is an annual award for the best English language paper or group of related papers dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface.

Dear all,

Our own Xiaodong Li (Statistics) has been honored as a Chancellor's Fellow! See the details at: 5 Honored as Chancellor’s Fellows | UC Davis College of Letters and Science .

Please join me to congratulate Xiaodong!

All the best,

Naoki

Dear all,

UCD4IDS is co-organizing the 2022 ADVANCE Award Symposium together with CAMPOS and Feminist Research Institute as follows. I very strongly encourage you to join us for this wonderful event! Please consider giving your poster talks too!! Here is the link to the symposium website: 2022 ADVANCE Scholar Award Symposium | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ucdavis.edu)

All the best,

Naoki

Jesus De Loera (Math/GGAM) was elected Vice President of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He has just started this role in Feb. 2022, and will serve for three years. Congratulations, Jesus! We really appreciate your dedication and service to our profession! See the list of the current AMS officers at AMS :: Officers of the American Mathematical Society.

Dear all,

Please join me to congratulate a UCD4IDS faculty member, Prabir Burman (Statistics) for being elected as an IMS Fellow of Class 2021! For the details, please check: Institute of Mathematical Statistics | IMS names 2021 Fellows (imstat.org)

All the best,

Naoki

Dear all,

Please join me to congratulate a UCD4IDS faculty member, Rishi Chaudhuri for receiving the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2021! For the details, please check: UC Davis Mathematics :: News and Sloan Fellowships for UC Davis Mathematician, Neuroscientist | UC Davis.

All the best,

Naoki

Our own Mariel Vazques (Math, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) has been elected as an AMS (American Mathematical Society) fellow!

Congratulations, Mariel!!

The following news article at the College of Letters and Science has just been published. Please check it out!

https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/new-15m-institute-will-harness-data-revolution