{"69164":{"#nid":"69164","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wu Selected for 2011 COPSS Fisher Lecture Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EC.F.\nJeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and professor in the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), was\nselected by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) as the\nrecipient of the 2011 COPPS Fisher Lecture Award.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fisher\nLecture Award is a prestigious honor, and \u201ca very high recognition of\nmeritorious achievement and scholarship in statistical science and recognizes\nhighly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu delivered\nthe Fisher Lecture, entitled \u003Cem\u003EPost-Fisherian\nExperimentation: From Physical To Virtual\u003C\/em\u003E, on August 3, 2011 at the Joint\nStatistical Meetings (JSM) in Miami Beach, Florida.\u0026nbsp; JSM is the largest gathering of statisticians\nheld in North America and draws more than 6,000 attendees.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\u2019s\nresearch contributions span the full range of statistics, from theory to\napplication, and touch many applied domains, from sample surveys to nanotechnology.\nThey are notable for their combination of novelty, technical strength, and\nfar-reaching vision. He has made especially significant contributions to\nexperimental design. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu\u0027s\nhonors include membership on the National Academy of Engineering, Member of Academia\nSinica, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies Presidents Award in\n1987, honorary professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an honorary doctor\nof mathematics at University of Waterloo. He earned his BS in Mathematics from\nNational Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of\nCalifornia, Berkeley.\u0026nbsp;Wu joined Georgia Tech in the summer of 2003.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe R.A.\nFisher Lectureship was established in 1963 by COPSS to honor both the\ncontributions of Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher and the work of a present-day\nstatistician for their advancement of statistical theory and applications.\u0026nbsp; COPSS has required that the Lectureship be\nawarded each year and that when possible the lecture be presented each year at\nthe Joint Annual Meeting of Societies.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\npurpose of COPSS is to work on shared problems and improve intersociety\ncommunication. Possible activities for COPSS include but are not limited to the\ncoordination of the calendar of statistical meetings, the preparation of\nmaterial to inform students about statistics when they are choosing a\nprofession, the sponsoring of lecture series and prizes, and the production of\nstatistical directories.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EC.F.\nJeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and professor in the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), was\nselected by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) as the\nrecipient of the 2011 COPPS Fisher Lecture Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-08-04 10:42:45","changed_gmt":"2022-05-26 17:09:36","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49771":{"id":"49771","type":"image","title":"C. 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