Jun Liu wins ICSA Pao-Lu Hsu Award

October 25, 2015
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We congratulate Jun Liu on receiving this prestigious award, given by the International Chinese Statistical Association only once every three years.  The citation reads, "For fundamental and pioneering contributions to Monte Carlo methods and Bayesian computation; for successful development of the Gibbs motif sampler for understanding gene regulation; for highly influential contribution in reconstruction of haplotypes from single nucleotide polymorphism data and the inference of epistatic interaction; and for the advancement of statistics in China".