The president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is the highest officer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and, together with the president-elect and past president, sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.
Duties
According to the IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs (2003), the president makes appointments to IMS committee vacancies, represents the Society to other organizations such as the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS). In addition, the president is an ex officio member of the corporation of the National Institute for Statistical Sciences (NISS), and is responsible for appointing another member of the corporation and a member of the NISS Board of Trustees.
List of presidents
20th century
- 1936Henry L. Rietz
- 1937Walter A. Shewhart
- 1938Burton H. Camp
- 1939Paul R. Rider
- 1940Samuel S. Wilks
- 1941Harold Hotelling
- 1942-43Cecil C. Craig
- 1944Walter A. Shewhart
- 1945W. Edwards Deming
- 1946William Gemmell Cochran
- 1947William Feller
- 1948Abraham Wald
- 1949Jerzy Neyman
- 1950Joseph Leo Doob
- 1951Paul S. Dwyer
- 1952Meyer Abraham Girshick
- 1953Morris H. Hansen
- 1954Edwin G. Olds
- 1955Henry Scheffé
- 1956David Blackwell
- 1957Alexander Mood
- 1958Leonard Jimmie Savage
- 1959Jacob Wolfowitz
- 1960John Tukey
- 1961Erich L. Lehmann
- 1962Albert H. Bowker
- 1963Theodore W. Anderson
- 1964Z. W. Birnbaum
- 1965Herbert Solomon
- 1966Herbert Robbins
- 1967Ted Harris
- 1968Herman Chernoff
- 1969Wassily Hoeffding
- 1970Jack Kiefer
- 1971William Kruskal
- 1972Raj Chandra Bose
- 1973Lucien Le Cam
- 1974R. R. Bahadur
- 1975Frederick Mosteller
- 1976Donald L. Burkholder
- 1977C. R. Rao
- 1978Elizabeth Scott
- 1979Samuel Karlin
- 1980George E. P. Box
- 1981Peter J. Bickel
- 1982Mark Kac
- 1983Patrick Billingsley
- 1984Ingram Olkin
- 1985Oscar Kempthorne
- 1986Paul Meier
- 1987Ronald Pyke
- 1988Bradley Efron
- 1989Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
- 1990Shanti S. Gupta
- 1991David O. Siegmund
- 1992Willem van Zwet
- 1993Larry Brown
- 1994Stephen Stigler
- 1995David R. Brillinger
- 1996James O. Berger
- 1997Nancy Reid
- 1998Persi Diaconis
- 1999Stephen Fienberg
21st century
- 2000Morris Eaton
- 2001Bernard Silverman
- 2002Iain M. Johnstone
- 2003S. R. S. Varadhan
- 2004Terry Speed
- 2005Louis Chen Hsiao Yun
- 2006Thomas G. Kurtz
- 2007Jim Pitman
- 2008Jianqing Fan
- 2009 Nanny Wermuth
- 2010J. Michael Steele
- 2011 Peter Gavin Hall
- 2012 Ruth J. Williams
- 2013 Hans-Rudolf Künsch
- 2014 Bin Yu
- 2015 Erwin Bolthausen
- 2016 Richard Davis
- 2017 Jon A. Wellner
- 2018 Alison Etheridge
- 2019 Xiao-Li Meng
- 2020 Susan Murphy
- 2021 Regina Liu
- 2022 Krzysztof Burdzy
- 2023 Peter Bühlmann
- 2024 Michael Kosorok