International Chinese Statistical Association

Call for WNAR/IMS 2026 Proposals Washington State University June 14-June 17, 2026 Invited Session Proposals - Deadline Extended to March 5. Please complete the proposal form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… More information at wnar.org

❗️Call for 2026 ICSA Awards Nomination❗️ - Distinguished Achievement Award - Outstanding Service Award - Outstanding Young Researcher Award - Catalyst for Impact Award Please cast your nominations by Nov 30th, 2025 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Call for invited session proposals 2026 IMS Annual Meeting July 6-9, 2026 Salzburg, Austria imstat.org/2025/09/13/cal…

Having worked on statistical foundations of #LLMs for 2 years, excited to share that 2 papers got accepted to top stats journals: Algorithmic Bias in RLHF (arxiv.org/abs/2405.16455) → JASA Robust detection of watermarks (arxiv.org/abs/2411.13868) → JRSSB

Apply by August 25! Data Science at the Intersection of Public Health and the Environment - Ideas Lab (Workshop) Dates: October 20-24, 2025- mailchi.mp/niss.org/https…

🤩 We are thrilled to invite you to our featured session at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, taking place on Wednesday, August 6, AM in CC-103B. Come hear from leading experts in academia, industry, and government as they explore the critical role of statistics in addressing complex and impactful questions in genomics data science in the era of biobanks 🧬 @sunryan @joellembatchou @nilanjan10c @AndrewHaoyu Special thanks to the ASA Section on Statistical Genetics and Genomics (SSGG) for sponsoring this session! @ASA_SSGG @AmstatNews 👉 JSM 2025: ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2…

🚨 New from ICSA! We're launching the Mentoring Lounge—monthly Zoom sessions to guide junior statisticians moving from academia to industry. We're looking for mentors with 3+ yrs industry experience. Make an impact. Join us👇 🔗linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… #ICSA #Mentorship #Statistics #DataScience

Download your August 2025 IMS Bulletin via imstat.org/wp-content/upl…. Contents at #Issue05" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">imstat.org/archive-vol-54…

Nominations are open for: AAAI Fellow, AAAI Senior Member status, 2026 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award , 2026 AAAI Classic Paper Award, 2026 AAAI Distinguished Service Award, 2026 AAAI/EAAI Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award. bit.ly/3XRpELK

Veridical Data Science for Biology, inspired by the principles of predictability, computability, and stability, this year’s meeting focuses on rigorous, interpretable, and biologically grounded computational methods in the biosciences. @bbiinnyyuu is the faculty sponsor.

Join ASA & Instats July 15–16 for NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data-Driven World—a FREE 2-day virtual conf celebrating 75 yrs of #NSF innovation in #Stats & #DataScience. Register now (FREE) 👉 instats.org/seminar/nsfa75…

I’ll speak on July 16 (2:30pm ET) at NSF@75: Advancing Statistical Science for a Data‑Driven World @InStatsOrg conference. My talk is about an info-theoretic criterion (ITCA) for combining ambiguous class labels: jmlr.org/papers/v23/21-… Free registration: instats.org/seminar/nsfa75…

Expert Panel moderated by Dr. Yu Wu, featuring Drs. Jing Zhai (FDA), Jocelynne Primer (City of Hope), Justin Williams (LA Dodgers), Yu Wu (Galderma), Bonnie Zhang (Edwards), Leiwen Gao (Amgen), Hui Yang (Takeda), Linxia Ren (Microsoft AI), Qiaolin Chen (ByteDance) & more! #IndustryLeaders

Highlights included: • Interactive exhibits showcasing cutting-edge healthcare data projects • Mock interviews giving students one-on-one practice with hiring managers #CareerDay

Thrilled to share that our Greater LA Health Data Science Career Day—hosted with UCLA MDSH—was a huge success! On June 7th, 70+ students & industry pros gathered in UCLA’s Kerckhoff Hall for hands-on learning, networking & mentorship. #HealthDataSci

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The course covers a wide range of topics, including NGS data analysis, single-cell transcriptomics, gene regulatory networks, AI, and protein structure prediction. It combines lectures with hands-on projects for practical experience.

📅 Date: Saturday, June 7, 2025
🕣 Time: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Location: UCLA Kerckhoff Hall, State Rooms  Cost: Free!
Registration & Mock Interview Sign-Up:
 uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4T…
Directions to UCLA Kerckhoff Hall:
 maps.app.goo.gl/QUWv6KmkV8N5xz… questions to our team at gla.careerday@gmail.com

Monday 5/19 Sir Bernard Silverman and Dr. Peter Song Featured in COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar - mailchi.mp/niss.org/https…

The PDF version of the June/July 2025 IMS Bulletin is online: imstat.org/wp.../uploads/… (or imstat.org/news/) The next deadline is July 1, 2025, then August 15, 2025. Contact us to submit an article, an obituary, some news or an announcement. Email bulletin@imstat.org.