Bin Yu receives the 2018 Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation

Bin Yu receives the 2018 Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation

Bin Yu is the recipient of the 2018 Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation, awarded by the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University. Bin will visit Texas A&M on Thursday, September 5th to receive the award and give a lecture. Congratulations Bin on another impressive award!

The only other Berkeley recipient of the prize is David Brillinger (2002). 

"The Parzen Prize is awarded by the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M University and is selected by the members of the Parzen Prize Committee (consisting of three internal faculty members and two external faculty members). The prize consists of an honorarium of $1000 and travel to College Station, TX, to present a lecture at the Prize Ceremony. To promote the dissemination of statistical innovation, the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation is awarded in even numbered years to a North American statistician whose outstanding research contributions include innovations that have had impact on practice and whose Ph.D degree is at least 25 years old."