April 20, 2010
Dr. Pranab K. Sen

Dr. Pranab K. Sen

Pranab K. Sen, PhD, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of biostatistics, has been selected as this year’s winner of the American Statistical Association’s S.S. Wilks Medal. Sen will accept the award on Aug. 3 at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

 
Trained at Calcutta University, where he received baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees, Sen has been a member of the UNC biostatistics faculty since 1967, serving in the capacity of professor since 1970.
 
He is an elected member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1968), the American Statistical Association (1969) and the International Statistical Institute (1973). He regularly has served since 1970 on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Journal of Multivariate Analysis, and has served as joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (1980-1983).
 
Sen’s research, published over the course of 50 years, has influenced generations of statisticians. He has authored more than 600 articles and 22 monographs and advanced textbooks, presented invited papers at more than 50 symposia and supervised the doctoral research of more than 80 students.
 
The Wilks Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of statistics, was instituted in 1964 to honor the memory and distinguished career of Samuel S. Wilks and recognize outstanding contributions to statistics that carry on in the spirit of Wilks’ work.
 
Sen is the first recipient from UNC’s Department of Biostatistics.
 
 

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.

 

 

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