May 7, 2024
Congratulations to Veronika Rockova, professor of Econometrics and Statistics University of Chicago Booth School of Business and faculty affiliate of the Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, on being awarded the 2024 COPSS Presidents' Award.
"For path-breaking contributions to theory and methodology at the intersection of Bayesian and frequentist Statistics in the areas of variable selection, factor models, non-parametric Bayes, tree-based and deep-learning methods, high-dimensional inference, generative methods for Bayesian computation; for exemplary service to Statistics and for generous mentorship of students and post-doctoral researchers."
