Jane-Ling Wang receives 2026 IMS Grace Wahba Award
Lecture to be presented at JSM in August 2026
We are delighted to announce that Distinguished Professor Emerita Jane-Ling Wang has been announced as the recipient of the 2026 IMS Grace Wahba Award and Lecture. The lecture will be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston in August 2026.
This honor is awarded annually by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and was created in 2021 in honor of American statistician Grace Wahba and her contributions to statistics and science - you can learn more about the award and Grace Wahba at: https://imstat.org/2021/05/14/ims-grace-wahba-award-and-lecture/
Past winners of this (and other IMS awards) can be found at: https://imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/honored-special-awards-lecturers-recipient-list/
We would like to congratulate Professor Wang on this fantastic achievement!