Wand joins elite statisticians' fellowship

May 28, 2007

UOW's Research Professor in Statistics Matt Wand will be inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in the United States on 30 July.

Professor Wand, a UOW Mathematics graduate who returned to Wollongong this year to take up his professorial position in the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, has developed a strong international reputation as a statistician during a stellar academic career which has included a five-year term as Associate Professor in Biostatistics at Harvard University in the US.

His induction will take place at the ISM's annual meeting at Salt Lake City in Utah on 30 July.

He is receiving the award for "fundamental contributions to the theory, computation and applications of nonparametric and semiparametric statistical methods."

IMS fosters development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. It has 4,500 active members around the world.