Peter Bühlmann
Department of Mathematics
ETH Zúrich
Peter Bühlmann is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and Director of Foundations of Data Science at ETH Zürich. He received his Ph.D. from ETH Zürich in 1993, and after spending three years as a postdoctoral fellow and Neyman Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, he returned to ETH Zürich as a faculty member in 1997. His research interests include high-dimensional statistics, causality, and interdisciplinary applications in biomedical sciences.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) and served as IMS President in 2022-2023, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and he was Co-Editor of the Annals of Statistics 2010-2012. He received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2017, the Neyman Lectureship and Award 2018 and the Wald Lectureship and Award 2024 from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Guy Medal in Silver 2018 from the Royal Statistical Society, and he is an elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2022.
Irène Gijbels
Department of Mathematics
KU Leuven
Irène Gijbels is Full Professor in Statistics at the Mathematics Department, KU Leuven, Belgium. She was Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina (Fullbright-Hays scholarship), Senior Research Assistant at the National Science Foundation, and Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain. At the KU Leuven she runs a dynamic research group in mathematical statistics.
She is an expert in semi and nonparametric methods, with a current strong emphasis on the study of copula-based dependencies, and on flexible (regression) modelling for non-Euclidean data. She is co-author of the 1996 book on Local Polynomial Modelling and Its Applications, together with J. Fan, and published more than 160 papers in international journals.
She is a past Editor of Journal of Nonparametric Statistics and served/serves on the Editorial Boards of major international scientific journals. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She is member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences and a honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium.
She was awarded the Honorary Medal for Mathematics, by the Czech Mathematical Society (in 2021), and received in 2024 the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO) – BBVA Foundation Award in Statistical Methodology (for a joint paper with María Alonso Pena and Rosa M. Crujeiras Casais).
Jiming Jiang
Department of Statistics
University of California, Davis
Jiming Jiang is Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics in 1995 from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include mixed effects models, model selection, small area estimation, longitudinal data analysis, precision medicine privacy-protection, and statistical genetics/bioinformatics. He is author/coauthor of over 120 peer-reviewed papers, many of which published in top journals of statistics and data science, and six books and monographs.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He is co-recipient of the Outstanding Statistical Application Award (ASA, 1998), a co-recipient of the first Distinguished Alumni Award (National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 2015), a Yangtze River Scholar (Chaired Professor, 2017-2020), the Primary Speaker of the 31st Morris Hansen Lecture (2023), and a recipient of the SAE Award (2024).
José Fernando Oliveira
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
University of Porto
José Fernando Oliveira is a full professor and the head of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto. He is also a member of the INESC TEC research institute.
His primary area of scientific activity is operations research. Within this field, his main research focus is the efficient use of raw materials and other resources, particularly in relation to cutting and packing problems. He has also worked on routing, lot sizing and vehicle scheduling problems in industrial contexts, as well as shared mobility, addressing the integration of pricing and capacity planning decisions within a revenue management framework. He is also interested in supporting decision-making in the management of higher education institutions, which includes workload models, sustainability, institutional benchmarking and the evaluation of institutions and faculty.
He regularly publishes the results of his research, which originated in projects funded by R&D agencies, and maintains an ongoing consultancy activity with companies and other private and public organisations, having successfully completed dozens of projects.
Notable positions he has held include the General Council of the University of Porto, the Vice-Presidency of EURO (the European Association of Operational Research Societies) and the Presidency of APDIO (the Portuguese Operational Research Society). He sits on the Industrial Engineering and Management Board of the Portuguese Agency for the Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education, and is an evaluator for the Portuguese National Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), as well as similar agencies in other countries. He is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) and a member of the editorial board of several other scientific journals. He is also President of the Scientific Council for Exact Sciences and Engineering at FCT.