The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The COPSS Presidents' Award is generally regarded as one of the highest honours in the field of statistics, along with the International Prize in Statistics.
Specifically, eligible candidates either i) will be under age 41 throughout the award calendar year, or ii) will be under age 46 throughout the award calendar year and will have received a terminal statistically-related degree no more than 12 years prior to that year. For example, an individual eligible for 2016 nomination under (ii) must have been born in 1971 or later with terminal statistically-related degree dated 2004 or later. Prior to 2005 the award was given to a statistician not yet having reached his or her 41st birthday during the calendar year of the award.
The COPSS Presidents' Award is awarded by the five sponsoring statistical societies: The American Statistical Association (ASA) The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) The Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society (ENAR) The Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society (WNAR)
The presentation of the award takes place at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM).
Winners of the COPSS Presidents' Award
1981: Peter J. Bickel, University of California, Berkeley
1982: Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
1983: Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University
1984: David V. Hinkley, University of California, Santa Barbara
1985: James O. Berger, Duke University
1986: Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1987: C.F. Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
1988: Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University
1989: Peter Hall, Australian National University
1990: Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago
1991: Bernard Silverman, University of Oxford
1992: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto
1993: Wing Hung Wong, Stanford University
1994: David L. Donoho, Stanford University
1995: Iain M. Johnstone, Stanford University
1996: Robert J. Tibshirani, Stanford University
1997: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
1998: Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud
1999: Larry A. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University
2000: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
2001: Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
2002: Jun Liu, Harvard University
2003: Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
2004: Michael A. Newton, University of Wisconsin
2005: Mark J. van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley
2006: Xihong Lin, Harvard University
2007: Jeff Rosenthal, University of Toronto
2008: T. Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania
2009: Rafael Irizarry, Harvard University
2010: David Dunson, Duke University
2011: Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
2012: Samuel Kou, Harvard University
2013: Marc A. Suchard, UCLA
2014: Martin J. Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley
2015: John D. Storey, Princeton University
2016: Nicolai Meinshausen, ETH Zürich
2017: Tyler J. VanderWeele, Harvard University
2018: Richard J. Samworth, University of Cambridge
2019: Hadley Wickham, RStudio, Inc. 2020: Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago 2021: Jeffrey T. Leek, Johns Hopkins University 2022: Daniela Witten, University of Washington 2023: Ryan Tibshirani, University of California, Berkeley Note: Listed are recipients' current working institutions not when awarded COPSS.
Peter J. Bickel, Stephen Fienberg, James O. Berger, Ross L. Prentice, C.F. Jeff Wu, Raymond J. Carroll, Kathryn Roeder, Wing Hung Wong are also R. A. Fisher Lecturers.
