Ruodu Wang, Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Risk Management and professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, has received the 2026 Frontiers of Science Award (FSA) from the International Congress of Basic Sciences (ICBS), shared with his co-author Vladimir Vovk, professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, for the paper titled “E-values: Calibration, combination, and applications” published in the Annals of Statistics in 2021. (See the paper on arXiv or view the journal website.)
The paper’s main contributions are to systematically introduce and formalize e-values as an emerging concept in hypothesis testing, place on them equal footing with p-values, and analyze their properties, advantages, and applications in various contexts. The paper laid the foundation for the rapid recent development of statistical methodologies based on e-values, leading to methods for evidence aggregation, anytime-valid inference, and multiple testing beyond what p-values naturally allow.
The paper is one of three papers winning FSA this year within the area of Statistics.
The award ceremony will be held in Beijing in August 2026.
About the Frontiers of Science Award:
The FSA was inaugurated in 2023 under the auspices of ICBS. For the 2026 selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research are chosen in 40 areas of the three basic science fields (mathematics, physics, and information sciences and engineering) represented at the ICBS. A scientific achievement must meet the following three requirements to be considered: (1) it must have been published in the last 10 years; (2) it must be of highest scientific value and originality and have made an important impact on its area; (3) it must have been evaluated and accepted by scholars in its area. The goal of this award is to encourage young scholars to look to the frontiers of basic science, set goals to obtain breakthrough results as early as possible, and contribute wisdom and energy to humankind's study of the mysteries of the natural world.
For more information, see the ICBS website.
