Rao Prize Conference set for May 20

The Penn State Department of Statistics will hold the C.R. Rao Prize Conference, a daylong event that includes talks, a poster session, and the awarding of the prestigious C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize, on Tuesday, May 20, in Berg Auditorium, 100 Huck Life Sciences Building, on the Penn State University Park campus. The conference is open to the University community.

This year’s conference will feature a keynote, titled “Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression,” presented by 2025 C.R. Rao Prize winner Trevor Hastie, the John A. Overdeck Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.

The conference will also feature lectures by top statisticians including Hui Zou, the Dr. Lynn Y.S. Lin Professor in Statistics at the University of Minnesota, who will present the C.G. Khatri Memorial Lecture, and Martin Wainwright, the Cecil H. Green Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will present the P.R. Krishnaiah Memorial Lecture.

More information, including the full conference schedule and speaker details, is available on the Eberly College of Science website.

The C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize was established to honor and recognize outstanding and influential innovations in the theory and practice of mathematical statistics, international leadership in directing statistical research, and pioneering contributions by a recognized leader in the field of statistics. The C.G. Khatri Memorial Lectureship and P.R. Krishnaiah Memorial Lectureship honor the memory of C.G. Khatri and P.R. Krishnaiah by inviting outstanding researchers in statistics to deliver lectures at Penn State.