The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a person under the age of 41, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The COPSS Presidents' Award, along with the International Prize in Statistics, are considered the two most prestigious awards in Statistics (The "Nobel Prizes" of Statistics). It is awarded by the five sponsoring statistical societies:
The American Statistical Association (ASA)The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)The Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society (ENAR)The Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society (WNAR)The presentation of the award takes place at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM).
1981: Peter J. Bickel, University of California, Berkeley1982: Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University1983: Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University1984: David V. Hinkley, University of California, Santa Barbara1985: James O. Berger, Duke University1986: Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center1987: C.F. Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology1988: Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University1989: Peter Hall, Australian National University1990: Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago1991: Bernard Silverman, University of Oxford1992: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto1993: Wing Hung Wong, Stanford University1994: David L. Donoho, Stanford University1995: Iain M. Johnstone, Stanford University1996: Robert J. Tibshirani, Stanford University1997: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University1998: Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud1999: Larry A. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University2000: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University2001: Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University2002: Jun Liu, Harvard University2003: Andrew Gelman, Columbia University2004: Michael A. Newton, University of Wisconsin2005: Mark J. van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley2006: Xihong Lin, Harvard University2007: Jeff Rosenthal, University of Toronto2008: T. Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania2009: Rafael A. Irizarry, Harvard University2010: David Dunson, Duke University2011: Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University2012: Samuel Kou, Harvard University2013: Marc A. Suchard, UCLA2014: Martin J. Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley2015: John D. Storey, Princeton University2016: Nicolai Meinshausen, ETH ZurichNote: Listed are recipients' current working institutions not when awarded COPSS.
Peter J. Bickel, Stephen Fienberg, James O. Berger, Ross L. Prentice, C.F. Jeff Wu, Raymond J. Carroll are also R. A. Fisher Lecturers.
