Nicolai Meinshausen: COPSS Award
We are delighted to announce that Professor Nicolai Meinshausen has received the 2016 COPSS Presidents' Award.
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Monika Krichel
The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the external pageCommittee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS)call_made to a person under the age of 41, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. It is arguably the most prestigious award in statistics (cited by external pageWikipediacall_made).
Nicolai Meinshausen was awarded for his "fundamental and ingenious contributions to high-dimensional inference, variable selection, multiple testing, graphical models, machine learning and causal inference for heterogeneous data". He is a full professor at the Seminar for Statistics.