Charmaine B. Dean, professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and vice-president, research and international at the University of Waterloo was awarded the 2023 SSC Gold Medal by the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) at its recent Annual Meeting in Ottawa. This prestigious award recognizes her outstanding contributions to statistical methodology and applications including survival and longitudinal analyses, disease mapping and spatio-temporal modelling, her important novel contributions to fostering truly collaborative interdisciplinary statistical and wildfire research, and her research leadership in Canada, according to the SSC announcement.
Dr. Dean’s work has been recognized with other major awards including Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Charmaine has also contributed much of her time in service to such organizations as the SSC, NSERC and the International Biometric Society. She has also held associate and senior editorship roles with journals such as Environmetrics, Statistics in Biosciences, Statistics in Medicine, and Biometrics.
From left: Wendy Lou, Charmaine Dean and Bruno Rémillard