Candès, Rothenhäusler among 2026 Frontiers of Science Award honorees

The International Congress for Basic Science honors top research with an emphasis on achievements from the past ten years which are of outstanding scholarly value and originality. For the 2026 selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research were chosen in 40 areas of the three basic science fields: mathematics, physics, and information sciences and engineering. The 118 high-impact papers honored with the Frontiers of Science Award highlight breakthrough achievements and the dynamic growth of global basic science research.

Publications co-authored by Emmanuel and Dominik were selected within the Statistics category of the mathematics field; both appeared in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B:

• "Panning for gold: 'Model-X' knockoffs for high-dimensional controlled variable selection" by Emmanuel Candès, Yingying Fan (USC), Lucas Janson, and Jinchi Lv (USC), 2018
• "Anchor regression: Heterogeneous data meet causality" by Dominik Rothenhäusler, Nicolai Meinshausen (ETH Zurich), Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich), and Jonas Peters (University of Copenhagen), 2021

Prizes will be awarded this summer when ICBS 2026 convenes in Beijing from August 9th to the 21st. Congratulations to these stellar teams!