The Breiman Award Committee of Statistical Learning and Data Science Section invites applications for the senior award in honor of Professor Leo Breiman (1928-2005).
Breiman's work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees, ensemble estimators, and random forests.
The Breiman Award Committee selects the Breiman senior scholar and junior scholar based on outstanding theoretical or methodological contributions to machine learning and/or computational statistics, contributions which have made a substantial, sustained impact on the subject and on practical applications. Nominations are accepted in odd-numbered years.
The award includes a monetary prize, a plaque, and an invited lecture at JSM two years later.
The Breiman junior scholar must have received a doctoral degree no earlier than 2009 and been a SLDS section member at least for two years, as of December 15, 2021.
The Breiman Award is given every two years.