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Ting Zhang Receives the 2026 Samuel Eckler Gold Medal
The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is pleased to announce that Ting Zhang is the recipient of the 2026 Samuel Eckler Gold Medal. This prestigious award is presented annually to the graduating student with the highest academic standing in the Actuarial Science major at the University of Waterloo.
Statistics and Actuarial Science researchers receive 2026 Brumbaugh Award
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science researchers Stefan Steiner, Mahsa Panahi and Jock MacKay, along with collaborator Jeroen de Mast of the University of Amsterdam, have received the 2026 Brumbaugh Award from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for their paper, A review of leveraged sample selection in variation reduction projects, published in Quality Engineering.
Chen, Ramezan and Lysy receive 2026 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award
The Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) has awarded the 2026 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award to University of Waterloo researchers Meixi Chen, Reza Ramezan and Martin Lysy for their paper, Fast and scalable inference for spatial extreme value models, published in the Canadian Journal of Statistics in 2025.