Featured Speakers

ASA President’s Invited Address
Peggy Carr
From Lived Experience to Public Trust: Stewardship, Service, and the Future of Federal Education Data
Monday, August 3, 4:00 p.m.

ASA President’s Address & Awards
Jeri Mulrow, Westat
Where Personal Purpose Meets Collective Action: ASA's Vision Forward
Tuesday, August 4, 8:00 p.m.

COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship
Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University
Causal Inference Meets Optimal Transport
Wednesday, August 5, 4:00 p.m.

Deming Lecture
Sallie Keller, University of Virginia
Rethinking Statistical Quality in a Data-Rich World: A Comprehensive Life Cycle Framework
Tuesday, August 4, 4:00 p.m.

IMS Medallion Award & Lecture I
Genevera Allen
Inference for Interpretable and Unsupervised Machine Learning
Monday, August 3, 2:00 p.m.

IMS Medallion Award & Lecture II
David Blei, Columbia University-Data Science Institute
A Fresh Look at Empirical Bayes
Tuesday, August 4, 2:00 p.m.

IMS Medallion Award & Lecture III
Lester Mackey, Microsoft Research New England
Wednesday, August 5, 2:00 p.m.

IMS Grace Wahba Award and Lecture
Jane-Ling Wang, University of California at Davis
Tuesday, August 4, 10:30 a.m.

COPSS Elizabeth L. Scott Award Lecture
TBD

2026 David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award
Peter McCullagh, The University of Chicago
What Is a Regression Model?
Wednesday, August 5, 10:30 a.m.

Distinguished Scholar Award
Runze Li, Penn State University
Test of Multivariate Independence and Its Power Enhancement

Early Career Scholar Award
Arun Kuchibhotla, Carnegie Mellon University
From Theory to Practice: Modernizing Inference for Independent and Dependent Data

Early Career Scholar Award
Pragya Sur
Modern Machine Learning Through the Eyes of a Statistician

2026 Monroe G. Sirken Lecture in Interdisciplinary Survey Methods Research
Barry Graubard, National Cancer Institute
Intersection of Sample Survey Research and Biostatistics in Public Health and Epidemiology
Wednesday, August 5, 10:30 a.m.