Professor Alexandre Bouchard-Côté receives Tweedie New Researcher Award

Congratulations to Professor Alexandre Bouchard-Côté!

Professor Bouchard-Côté received this prestigious award for his excellence in work at the interface of probabilistic modeling, Monte Carlo inference, Bayesian statistics and machine learning and for his contributions to statistical and computational methods in phylogenetics and natural language processing.

The Tweedie New Researcher Award was created by action of the IMS Council in honor of Richard L. Tweedie, who played a significant role throughout his professional career in mentoring young colleagues at work and through professional society activities.  As the award recipient, Professor Bouchard-Côté is invited to present the Tweedie New Researcher Invited Lecture at the 2016 New Researchers Conference in Madison.