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Prof. Noureddine El Karoui is named IMS Fellow

Prof. Noureddine El Karoui has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). An induction ceremony will take place at the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session at JSM in Seattle.

Professor El Karoui received the award for his fundamental contributions to statistical methods in high dimension, especially in the study of highdimensional sample covariance matrices with sparse entries.

Two former PhD students receive Sloan Research Fellowships

Two former PhD students from the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics are among the recipients of this year's Sloan Research Fellowships. They are Jian Ding (PhD 2011, supervisors Elchanan Mossel and Yuval Peres) in Mathematics and Peter Ralph (PhD 2009, supervisor Steven Evans) in Computational and Evolutionary Molecular Biology.