Volume 48 • Issue 1 IMS Bulletin January/February 2019 National Academy of Medicine IMS Fellow Xihong Lin was among those elected as members of the National Academy CONTENTS of Medicine (NAM), one of the three United States Academies, along with Science 1 Xihong Lin elected to and Engineering. Election to the Academy is considered one National Academy of of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and Sciences recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding 2–3 Members’ news: Raphael professional achievement and commitment to service. Gottardo; Song Xi Chen, Xihong Lin is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Edward L. Ionides, Sharon- Biostatistics, professor of statistics, and coordinating director of Lise Normand; COPSS the Program in Quantitative Genomics at Harvard T.H. Chan nominations; new IMS School of Public Health. She was elected for her “contributions journal editors to statistics, genetics, epidemiology, and environmental health Xihong Lin through influential and ingenious research in statistical methods 4 Anirban’s Angle: US Elections, 2016, 2018, 2020 and applications in whole-genome sequencing association studies, gene-environment, integrative analysis, and complex observational studies.” 5 New group on “This distinguished and diverse class of new members is a truly remarkable set of History of Statistics scholars and leaders whose impressive work has advanced science, improved health, 6 Obituary: Frank Hampel and made the world a better place for everyone,” said NAM President Victor J. Dzau. 7 Recent papers: Electronic “Their expertise in science, medicine, health, and policy in the U.S. and around Journal of Probability; Electronic the globe will help our organization address today’s most pressing health challenges Communications in Probability and inform the future of health and health care. It is my privilege to welcome these 12 Hand writing: Right, esteemed individuals to the National Academy of Medicine.” legitimate and proper? The New members are elected by current members through a process that recognizes new world of data ethics individuals who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical 13 IMS Awards: nominate or sciences, health care, and public health. apply Also elected to NAM from the statistics community were the following people: Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, 14 Student Puzzle Corner 23 and Data Science at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and co-director of 15 Meetings the Harvard Data Science Initiative, for “developing and applying innovative statistical 21 Employment Opportunities methods to understanding and reducing the impact of air pollution on population health.” John P.A. Ioannidis, C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention, professor 24 International Calendar of of medicine, health research and policy, biomedical data science, and statistics, and Meetings co-director of Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University, for “his 27 Information for Advertisers dedication to rigorous, reproducible, and transparent health science, for his seminal work on meta-research, for his calls for quality in evidence, and for the positive impact it has had on the reliability and utility of scientific information throughout the sciences.” Bradley A. Malin, professor and vice chair, biomedical informatics, and professor of biostatistics and computer science, Vanderbilt University, for “contributions in Read it online: natural language de-identification, guiding both national and international policies around bulletin.imstat.org research protection and enabling broad sharing and reuse of health and social data at an unprecedented scale.” IMS Bulletin 2 . IMS Bulletin Volume 48 . Issue 1 Volume 48 • Issue 1 January/February 2019 IMS Members’ News ISSN 1544-1881 2018 Mortimer Spiegelman Award Contact information The Applied Public Health Statistics section of the American Public Health Association has Managing Editor: T.N. Sriram named Raphael Gottardo, a computational biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Assistant Editor: Tati Howell Center, the winner of its 2018 Mortimer Spiegelman Award. The Spiegelman Award hon- Contributing Editors: ors statisticians under the age of 40 who have made outstanding contributions to health Anirban DasGupta, Yoram Gat, David Hand, Takis Konstantopoulos, Xiao-Li statistics, especially public health statistics. Meng, Regina Nuzzo, Dimitris Politis, “It is a privilege to be recognized by my Kavita Ramanan and Terry Speed peers and win such a well-respected award,” Contact the IMS Bulletin by email: Gottardo said. “Researching ways to harness e [email protected] the immune system to prevent infections w http://bulletin.imstat.org and cure cancer is a massive undertaking https://www.facebook.com/IMSTATI that involves analyzing and integrating a https://twitter.com/InstMathStat Service News Hutch Robert Hood / Fred large amount of data, and I’m proud that my work is helping other scientists turn Contact the IMS regarding your dues, Raphael Gottardo membership, subscriptions, orders or that trove of information into actionable change of address: insights.” IMS Dues and Subscriptions Office Gottardo’s work focuses on developing methods and tools to analyze large immunolog- 9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L3503A ical data sets generated by novel assay technologies and helping scientists understand the Bethesda, MD 20814-3998 USA results of their experiments. t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] “Dr. Gottardo has an outstanding ability to apply an integrated, reproducible and open t +1 216 295 5661[international] approach to his research,” said Fred Hutch colleague and biostatistician Peter Gilbert. f +1 301 634 7099 “I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Raphael on many HIV vaccine projects over e [email protected] the years and his fusion of computational immunology, computer science and statistical Contact the IMS regarding any other research is second to none.” matter, including advertising, copyright The Mortimer Spiegelman Award is named for demographer, actuary and biostatistician permission, offprint orders, copyright Mortimer Spiegelman and has been presented annually since 1970. See https://www.apha. transfer, societal matters, meetings, fellows org/apha-communities/member-sections/applied-public-health-statistics/who-we-are/ nominations and content of publications: awards Executive Director, Elyse Gustafson IMS Business Office t 877-557-4674 [toll-free in USA] t +1 216 295 2340 [international] Nominate for 2019 COPSS Awards f +1 216 295 5661 Each year, the statistical profession recognizes outstanding members at the Joint Statistical e [email protected] Meetings in an awards ceremony organized by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). Anyone can nominate—from the newest to most senior members of Executive Committee our societies. It is important to single out those who have made exceptional contributions President: Alison Etheridge to the profession. Please review the COPSS Awards for 2019, and see if you can identify [email protected] worthy individuals. President-Elect: Xiao-Li Meng [email protected] Four COPSS awards will be presented at the 2019 JSM in Denver, Colorado, which Past President: Jon Wellner will take place July 27–August 1, 2019. The deadlines for the Fisher Award and Lectureship [email protected] and the Florence N. David Award and Lectureship have passed, but there is still time to Treasurer: Zhengjun Zhang nominate for the Presidents’ Award and the George W. Snedecor Award. Nominations for [email protected] these awards should be submitted by January 15, 2019, to the relevant committee chair or Program Secretary: Ming Yuan [email protected] to the COPSS Secretary. Executive Secretary: Edsel Peña For more information and contact details, please visit http://copss.org. [email protected] = access published papers online IMS Journals and Publications January/February . 2019 IMS Bulletin . 3 Annals of Statistics: Ming Yuan, Richard Samworth http://imstat.org/aos http://projecteuclid.org/aos Annals of Applied Statistics: Karen Kafadar http://imstat.org/aoas IMS Journals: new editors http://projecteuclid.org/aoas Annals of Probability: Amir Dembo http://imstat.org/aop Some of the IMS journals have new editors. Starting January 1, 2019, the Annals of http://projecteuclid.org/aop Applied Probability will now have two Co-editors (like the Annals of Statistics has had). Annals of Applied Probability: Francois Delarue, Peter Friz http://imstat.org/aap Therefore, Editor álintB Tóth is handing over to Francois Delarue and Peter Friz. Francois http://projecteuclid.org/aoap is Professor in the mathematics department at the Université Nice–Sophia Antipolis in Statistical Science: Cun-Hui Zhang France; his website is at https://math.unice.fr/~delarue/. Peter Friz is Einstein Professor in http://imstat.org/sts http://projecteuclid.org/ss Mathematics at TU-Berlin, and affiliated to the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis IMS Collections and Stochastics, in Germany; his webpage is at http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~friz/ http://projecteuclid.org/imsc At the Annals of Applied Statistics, Tilmann Gneiting hands over to Karen Kafadar as the IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks: Nancy Reid https://www.imstat.org/journals-and- Editor-in-Chief. Karen is Commonwealth Professor and Chair of the statistics department publications/ims-monographs/ at the University of Virginia: http://statistics.as.virginia.edu/faculty-staff/profile/kk3ab