{"569561":{"#nid":"569561","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Faculty Spotlight: First Awardee of ISM\/JSS\u2019s Inaugural Akaike Memorial Lecture Is ISyE\u2019s Jeff Wu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) and the Japan Statistical Society (JSS) have announced that Georgia Tech\u2019s Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u2019s (ISyE) Jeff Wu will be the inaugural lecturer for the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award. Wu, who is also ISyE\u2019s Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and professor, will deliver his speech at Kanazawa University on September 5, during the 2016 Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting, which will be held September 4-September 7. Wu\u2019s presentation is entitled \u201cA Fresh Look at Effect Aliasing and Interactions: Some New Wine in Old Bottles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOverview of the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ISM and the JSS have inaugurated the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award under the organizations\u2019 joint sponsorship. The Akaike Memorial Lecture Award is named after the late Hirotugu Akaike, who left a wide-reaching and influential legacy of research in the statistical sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery two years, one lecturer is selected under the standards of the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award nominating committee from among those individuals who have, like Akaike, stood out as being ahead of their time, exercising an international influence over a wide range of fields in the statistical sciences (including mathematical sciences such as control and optimization, and mathematical engineering) and applied fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lecture and follow-up discussion will be published as an invited paper in the \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics\u003C\/em\u003E (AISM) or the \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the Japan Statistical Society\u003C\/em\u003E (JJSS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOverview of Professor Wu\u2019s Research Accomplishments\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWu has been a vigorous pioneer in the theory of experimental design, EM algorithms, and resampling. His research has addressed a broad spectrum of topics in statistics; some of his particularly notable accomplishments are described below.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe proposed a general optimal design algorithm using the fact that approximate optimal design problems become constrained convex problems and proved that they converge asymptotically to the optimal design. He examined the convergence of the celebrated EM algorithms and obtained results under conditions that are applicable to most practical problems. He also made key contributions to the justification of the bootstrapping and jackknife methods from the viewpoint of mathematical statistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs experimental design methods were quickening the development of new products and technologies in Japanese industry in the early 1990s, Wu used advances in statistical methods to propose fundamental revisions to experimental design, based on the agricultural methods of R. A. Fisher and the robust parameter design method of Genichi Taguchi. He developed a new method called \u0022conditional main effect analysis\u0022 for distinguishing among the effects of configuration, sparsity, the principle of transmission, and aliasing in factorial experiments, thereby contributing greatly to the development of the technometrics field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently, Wu has devoted attention to virtual experiments on computers, in search of principles beyond those identified by Fisher for problems examined with numerical experiments.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) and the Japan Statistical Society (JSS) have announced that ISyE\u0027s Jeff Wu will be the inaugural lecturer for the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award. Wu, who is also ISyE\u2019s Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and professor, will deliver his speech at Kanazawa University on September 5.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) and the Japan Statistical Society (JSS) have announced that ISyE\u0027s Jeff Wu will be the inaugural lecturer for the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2016-08-29 13:01:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:26","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"150941":{"id":"150941","type":"image","title":"C.F. Jeff Wu","body":null,"created":"1449178777","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:39:37","changed":"1475894784","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:24","alt":"C.F. 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