Anru Zhang has been selected to receive the 2022 Tweedie New Researcher Award, as recommended by the  Committee on Travel Awards.

Anru Zhang is the tenured Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. M.D. Associate Professor at the Departments of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistical Science at Duke University, and an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 (advised by T. Tony Cai) and a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Peking University in 2010. He also received ASA Gottfried E. Noether Junior Award, Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award and NSF Career Award.

He will present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the IMS New Researchers Conference (formally, the 22nd Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics and Probability) at George Mason University, August 3-6, 2022

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https://imstat.org/2022/04/29/anru-zhang-to-receive-2022-tweedie-new-researcher-award/

Anru Zhang wins Tweedie Award | Statistical Science (duke.edu)

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