ANDREW DAW was appointed as an Associate Editor of Stochastic Systems, which is the flagship journal of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society (APS) and an affiliated journal of IMS.
YINGYING FAN was awarded the USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Faculty, Postdoctoral Scholars, Medical Residents, and Fellows. This distinguished honor recognizes exceptional individuals who go above and beyond what is expected, fostering an engaging, supportive, and inclusive academic environment through their mentorship of colleagues, graduate, and undergraduate students. She was also invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 2024 annual American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh chapter meeting, which will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in April, and has been appointed an upcoming Co-Editor for the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES) for a three-year term.
ADEL JAVANMARD (along with Mahdi Soltanolkotabi from USC Viterbi) has been awarded the AWS AI Amazon Research Award for his proposal titled, “Reliable AI for Generation of Medical Reports from MRI Scans.” The award bestows $70K in cash funding and an additional $50K in AWS credits.
DOUG SHOOK has earned the designation of Clinical Professor Emeritus of Data Sciences and Operations, effective this month, for his distinguished career, awards and honors, and enormous contributions to DSO, Marshall, and USC through various leadership roles over the past 33 years.
KATHY TAKAYAMA was the marquee speaker at the Women’s History Month Brunch hosted in Long Beach by veteran-owned Kreative Kulture. She also taught the March Brown Bag session on “What’s New with Slack” for the monthly faculty and staff series.
XIN TONG, along with co-authors, has a paper forthcoming in the Journal of the American Statistical Association titled, “Dissecting Gene Expression Heterogeneity: Generalized Pearson Correlation Squares and the K-lines Clustering Algorithm.”