Lester Mackey wins 2025 COPSS Presidents' Award

The COPSS Presidents' Award is an esteemed recognition given annually to a young statistician for outstanding contributions to the field of statistics. Professor Mackey received his honor at last week's Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville with the following citation: "For deep and beautiful theory transforming high-dimensional statistics and machine learning, including path-breaking work on Stein operators and discrepancy, ranking algorithms, recommender systems, cross-validation, and concentration bounds for random matrices, with applications to weather, climate and healthcare; and for service to the profession including leadership and tremendously caring mentorship." Stanford Statistics couldn't phrase our appreciation any better than that: congratulations, Lester!