Featured Speakers
Plenaries
ASA President’s Invited Address
Juan Lavista Ferres, AI for Good Lab at Microsoft
AI for Good in the Era of GPT
Monday, August 4, 4:00 p.m.
IMS Presidential Address
Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, August 4, 8:00 p.m.
Deming Lecture
Jianjun Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology
From Statistical Process Control to In-Process Quality Improvement
Tuesday, August 5, 4:00 p.m.
ASA President’s Address & Awards
Ji-Hyun Lee, University of Florida
Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society
Tuesday, August 5, 8:00 p.m.
COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship
James Robins, Harvard School of Public Health
Causal Inference: History, Statistical Methods, Role in Public Health and Medicine , Controversies, and the Future
Wednesday, August 6, 4:00 p.m.
Named Lectures
IMS Medallion Award & Lecture I
Ery Arias-Castro, UC San Diego
Modal Clustering: Past and Present
Sunday, August 3, 2:00 p.m.
Rietz Award & Lecture
Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
Genomic Inferences in the Era of Black Box Predictions
Sunday, August 3, 4:00 p.m.
IMS Medallion Award & Lecture II
Sandrine Dudoit, University of California at Berkeley
Learning from Data in Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Monday, August 4, 8:30 a.m.
Neyman Award & Lecture
Regina Liu, Rutgers University
Fusion Learning: Combining Complex Inferences from Diverse Data Sources
Monday, August 4, 2:00 p.m.
IMS Medallion Award & Lecture III
Florentina Bunea, Cornell University
Learning Softmax Mixture Ensembles for AI Applications
Tuesday, August 5, 8:30 a.m.
Le Cam Award & Lecture
Peter Bickel, University of California at Berkeley
Local Asymptotic Analysis: A General Quantitative Tool
Tuesday, August 5, 10:30 a.m.
IMS Medallion Award & Lecture IV
Victor Panaretos, EPFL
Near the Diagonal
Wednesday, August 6, 8:30 a.m.
Breiman Award Lectures
Wednesday, August 6, 10:30 a.m.
Rahul Mazumder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mladen Kolar
Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University
Wald Memorial Award & Lecture, Part I
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
Neural Causality Learning from Multiple Environments
Tuesday, August 5, 4:00 p.m.
Wald Memorial Award & Lecture, Part II
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
Improving Peer Reviews: Aggregation of Rankings from Crowds of Reviewers
Wednesday, August 6, 10:30 a.m.
IMS Grace Wahba Award and Lecture
Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge
Nonparametric Inference Under Shape Constraints: Past, Present, and Future
Wednesday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
IMS Medallion Award & Lecture V
Boaz Nadler, Weizmann Institute of Science
Finding Structure in High-Dimensional Data: Statistical and Computational Challenges
Thursday, August 7, 8:30 a.m.
Award Sessions
Florence Nightingale David Award Lecture
Katherine Ensor, Rice University
Brave New World: Fact or Fiction
Tuesday, August 5, 2:00 p.m.
David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award
Alexander Dawid, University of Cambridge
A Lifetime of Irrelevance
Wednesday, August 6, 10:30 a.m.
Noether Distinguished Scholar Award
Wednesday, August 6, 10:30 a.m.
2025 Noether Early Career Scholar Award
Song Mei
A Statistical Theory of Contrastive Pre-Training and Multimodal Generative AI
2025 Noether Early Career Scholar Award
Yuting Wei, University of Pennsylvania
To Intrinsic Dimension and Beyond: Efficient Sampling in Diffusion Models
2025 Noether Distinguished Scholar Award
Xuming He, Washington University in St. Louis
Taming the Tail with Expected Shortfall Regression
IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award
Wednesday, August 6, 2:00 p.m.
Louis V. Cammarata
Ying Jin
George Stepaniants
WNAR 2025 Research Impact Award Lecture
Thursday, August 7, 10:30 a.m.
