
Congratulations to our many faculty members who have been elected or invited to play a big role in our professional organizations and meetings. We are proud of their creative leadership and are glad their hands are at the tiller as statistics and related fields are navigating waters roiled by the AI revolution. These leaders include the following (with apologies for those we did not identify prior to going to press):
American Statistical Association
- Oksana Chrkebtii: Program Chair, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (2024)
- Laura Kubatko: Chair, Continuing Education Committee (2023-24; Member 2020-2026)
- Asuman Turkmen: Treasurer, Columbus Chapter (2020-2025)
- Sally Paganin: Program Chair-Elect, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (2025)
International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- Xinyi Xu: Executive Secretary (2025-2027)
- Sally Paganin: Board of Directors, Member (2025-2027)
- Mario Peruggia: Editor, Bayesian Analysis (2015-2026)
- Steve MacEachern: Member, Committee on Fellows (2021-2024)
Other Major Conference Organization and Leadership Positions
- Chris Hans: Co-chair, CMStatistics Conference (2023)
- Laura Kubatko: Chair, Local and Scientific Organizing Committees, Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) Annual Meeting (2023)
- Laura Kubatko: Organizer, Semester on Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics, ICERM, Brown University (2024)
- Sebastian Kurtek: Co-Organizer, Workshop on Object Oriented Data Analysis in Health Sciences (2023)
- Yoon Lee: Member, Korean International Statistical Society (KISS) Board of Directors (2023–2028)
- Shili Lin: Member, National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) Ingram Olkin Forum Committee (2024)
- Shili Lin: Member, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) Board of Governors (2020-2026)
- Shili Lin: Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Committee on Equality and Diversity (2020-2026)
- Jillian Morrison: Chair, Communications Committee, Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science (CWS) (2022-2025)
- Mario Peruggia: Co-Chair, 18th International Joint Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE) and Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics), CFE-CMStatistics (2024)
- Yuan Zhang: Co-Organizer, Frontiers of Statistical Network Analysis: Inference, Tensors and Beyond, Singapore Institute for Mathematical Sciences (2025)