Sen wins prestigious ASA Samuel S. Wilks award for 2010
Dr. Pranab K. Sen
Pranab K. Sen, PhD, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and professor of statistics and operations research, is the 2010 winner of the American Statistical Association’s Samuel S. Wilks Award. Sen is the 46th recipient of this award, and the first recipient from UNC Chapel Hill’s Department of Biostatistics. Norman L. Johnson, PhD, professor emeritus of statistics, was awarded the Samuel S. Wilks Award in 1993. This award recognizes Sen’s pioneering, deep, profound and legendary contributions to statistics in general and nonparametrics, and particularly for his selfless and dedicated service to the profession through numerous editorial activities, his novel contributions to the discipline through publishing and editing numerous volumes in statistical sciences and for his outstanding mentoring of several generations of statisticians. Interestingly, Samuel Wilks was the external examiner of Sen’s doctoral dissertation submitted to the Calcutta University in 1961, and he made several valuable comments on that.
The Wilks Medal will be presented to Dr. Sen on August 3, 2010 at the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) during the Presidential Address session. This year’s JSM meeting is being held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Samuel S. Wilks Award, one of the ASA’s most prestigious, was established in 1964 to honor the memory and distinguished career of Samuel S. Wilks.
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