Zeng awarded Fellow status by Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Dr. Donglin Zeng
Donglin Zeng, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been selected as one of this year’s Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Fellows. He and the other honorees will be recognized at the IMS Presidential Address and Awards session at the 73rd IMS Annual Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden in August 2010. Zeng, who says he is “very honored and thrilled to be elected,” was selected for his “fundamental contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric models and statistical genetics, and for excellence in interdisciplinary research, graduate education and professional service.”
The IMS is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination and application of statistics and probability. About five percent of the organization’s 4,500 international members have earned the status of fellowship.
“IMS Fellowship is a singular and rare honor, and only 13 IMS Fellows were selected from around the world this year” said Michael Kosorok, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics. “The award is only given to a very small fraction of professional statisticians who have made a significant, sustained and internationally recognized contribution to statistical methodology and theory. We are thrilled that Dr. Zeng has been given this award.”Other IMS fellows from UNC’s school of public health include professors Pranab Sen (1968), Danyu Lin (1999), Joe Ibrahim (2000), Michael Kosorok (2007), and Jianwen Cai (2009). Faculty members with primary appointments in statistics and joint appointments in biostatistics who are IMS fellows include Drs. Steve Marron (1989), Richard Smith (1991), and Andrew Nobel (2008). This total number of IMS Fellows is unusually high for any statistics or biostatistics department.
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