COPSS Presidents' Award

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. It is arguably the most prestigious award in statistics, the Nobel Prize 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).

Winners of the COPSS Presidents' Award

• 1981: Peter J. Bickel, University of California, Berkeley
• 1982: Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
• 1983: Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University
• 1984: David V. Hinkley, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1985: James O. Berger, Duke University
• 1986: Ross L. Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• 1987: C.F. Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 1988: Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A&M University
• 1989: Peter Hall, Australian National University
• 1990: Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago
• 1991: Bernard Silverman, University of Oxford
• 1992: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto
• 1993: Wing-Hung Wong, Stanford University
• 1994: David L. Donoho, Stanford University
• 1995: Iain M. Johnstone, Stanford University
• 1996: Robert J. Tibshirani, Stanford University
• 1997: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
• 1998: Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud
• 1999: Larry A. Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University
• 2000: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
• 2001: Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
• 2002: Jun Liu, Harvard University
• 2003: Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
• 2004: Michael A. Newton, University of Wisconsin
• 2005: Mark J. van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley
• 2006: Xihong Lin, Harvard University
• 2007: Jeff Rosenthal, University of Toronto
• 2008: T. Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania
• 2009: Rafael A. Irizarry, Harvard University
• 2010: David Dunson, Duke University
• 2011: Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
• 2012: Samuel Kou, Harvard University
• 2013: Marc A. Suchard, UCLA
• 2014: Martin J. Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley
• 2015: John D. Storey, Princeton University

Note: 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.