2025 COPSS Presidents' Award Winner
Lester Mackey
Microsoft Research
Lester Mackey of Microsoft Research is the recipient of the 2025 COPSS Presidents’ Award. The citation for Dr. Mackey's plaque reads:
“For deep and beautiful theory transforming high-dimensional statistics and machine learning, including path-breaking work on Stein operators and discrepancy, ranking algorithms, recommender systems, cross-validation, and concentration bounds for random matrices, with applications to weather, climate and healthcare; and for service to the profession including leadership and tremendously caring mentorship.”