(apologies for cross posting)
The Joint Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Sections of the American Statistical Association (ASA) are pleased to announce that the 2023 ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award goes to Dr. Douglas Bates:
"For his fundamental contributions to statistical computing infrastructure, developments of S, R, Julia, and mixed-effects models, and their applications in statistical research and practice."
Dr. Bates is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Queen's University at Kingston in 1978. After being on the faculty of Mathematics at University of Alberta, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980, where he chaired the Department from 1991 to 1994. Throughout his career, he has published two books and over 40 papers. He has served on the editorial board of the SIAM Journal of Scientific and Statistical Computing (1983-1984), The American Statistican (1989), the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (1990-1993), and the Current Index to Statistics (1998-2003). He became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1992. Dr. Bates has contributed significantly to the development of S and R languages since early days. He is a founding member of the R Development Core Team. Besides, he is well known for his impressive contribution to the development and implementation of mixed-effects models. He is one of the major developers of the three widely used packages for mixed-effects models: "nlme" (for S and R), "lme4" (for R) and "MixedModels" (for Julia).
The ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award is the most prestigious award bestowed by the Section on Statistical Computing and the Section on Statistical Graphics. It recognizes an individual or team for innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research. The past awardees are Howard Wainer (2021), Luke Tierney (2019), Bill Cleveland (2016), and Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka (2010).
The award committee consisted of the past and present chairs of the Section on Statistical Computing (Usha Govindarajulu and Jun Yan) and the Section on Statistical Graphics (Simon Urbanek and Ed Mulrow).
The award will be presented at the two Sections' mixer at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM). An invited session honoring Dr. Douglas Bates, organized by Dr. Yazhen Wang, is reserved for the 2023 JSM.
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Raymond Wong
Associate Professor
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