Category Archives: News

After thorough analysis, CANSSI proposes moving the Colorado Avalanche up to Simon Fraser University on Burnaby Mountain and renaming them the Burnaby Mountain Avalanche. Stellar Canadian sports statisticians along with the mild climate, high altitude and Canadians fans fueled by … Continue reading →

The UBC/SFU Joint Statistical Seminar is jointly hosted by the graduate students of the UBC Department of Statistics and the SFU Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. The Spring 2021 event is the second of two events taking place in … Continue reading →

March 10, 2021 1-4 pm ET This session (Domain Knowledge and Application Areas) features CANSSI Board member Tim Hesterberg. Tim is a Senior Data Scientist at Google. The 10 tutorials in this NISS series involve the Top 10 analytics approaches … Continue reading →

About this Webinar Series The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science webinar series is co-organized by the Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and its five charter member societies (ASA, ENAR, IMS, SSC, and WNAR), as well as NISS.  This twice a month webinar (1st and … Continue reading →

Don Estep, Scientific Director at CANSSI and Simon Fraser University Science Professor, is a mathematician and statistician who collaborates with scientists and engineers to develop algorithms and models for a range of problems in ecology, physics and engineering. He has applied … Continue reading →

Developing climate change scenarios encompassing realistic and thinkable impacts on the credit health of a bank is a high priority initiative of the financial industry. The problem is to understand the realized weather phenomena (primarily precipitation, temperature, wind) on a … Continue reading →

CANSSI hosted a panel at the Canadian Science Policy Conference titled “The Interplay of Official Statistics and Privacy”, which will be moderated by Don Estep, Scientific Director of CANSSI. Time:10:30 am – 12:00 pm EST Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Summary:Accurate and timely … Continue reading →

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced that Christian Genest, former CANSSI Board Member and a professor at McGill University, is the ninth recipient of the John L. Synge Award. This distinction, created in 1986, is given by the RSC … Continue reading →

September 28 – 29, 2020 Location: Online – Please register here.  C. F. Jeff Wu is Coca Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He was elected a Member of the National … Continue reading →

The SSC Biostatistics section invites graduate and senior undergraduate students to participate to a special COVID-19 case study competition. This competition, taking place outside the regular SSC meeting case study activity, will allow students to demonstrate initiatives and creativity in … Continue reading →

We want to welcome our new CANSSI Board Members for 2020-2023, voted in at CANSSI’s Annual General Meeting in June. Their appointment to the Board will support CANSSI’s mission to advance the development, application, and communication of cutting-edge statistical and … Continue reading →

CANSSI thanks five outgoing Board members this year. Wesley Yung of Statistics Canada served two terms on CANSSI’s Board of Directors. He played very important roles on the Board during his term, including two years as Chair of the Board. … Continue reading →

Karen Kopciuk, CANSSI Board Member and leader of a CANSSI Health Science Collaborating Centre is this year’s recipient of the Statistical Society of Canada’s (SSC) Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to a person who has made substantial contributions to the running … Continue reading →

W. John Braun, CANSSI’s Deputy Director, won Statistical Society of Canada’s (SSC) 2020 Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work. This award recognizes outstanding contributions by SSC members in collaborative research and applied work, the importance of which derives primarily from … Continue reading →

Former CANSSI Associate Director for Québec, Erica Moodie of McGill University is the 2020 CRM-SSC Prize recipient. The CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics is awarded annually by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) in recognition of outstanding research carried out primarily in Canada by a statistician during the first fifteen years after completing a PhD. Erica is … Continue reading →

Myriam Brossard, CANSSI postdoctoral fellow in  2017-2018, is a James V. Neel award finalist at this year’s Annual Meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES 2020). The James V. Neel Award is presented to an outstanding oral presentation by a postdoctoral … Continue reading →

Changbao Wu and Mary Thompson, both of the University of Waterloo, have a new book entitled “Sampling Theory and Practice” published by Springer. Changbao Wu is a team leader for the CANSSI Collaborative Research Team “Modern Techniques for Survey Sampling … Continue reading →

Former CANSSI Board member Charmaine Dean has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Charmaine is currently the Vice President University Research at the University of Waterloo and a collaborator on the CANSSI Collaborative Research Team “Spatial … Continue reading →

Research Assistant Yihao Yin — part of a CANSSI CRT titled “Towards Sustainable Fisheries: State Space Assessment Models (SSAMs) for Complex Fisheries and Biological Data — leveraged his experience to gain full time employment at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. … Continue reading →

Kaiqiong Zhao received a $70000 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS) scholarship for her doctoral thesis project entitled “Smooth modeling of covariate effects in bisulfite sequencing-derived measures of DNA methylation”. She is part of the CANSSI Collaborative Research … Continue reading →

Di Shu is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. During her PhD studies, Di was part of the CANSSI Collaborative Research Team “Statistical Analysis of Large … Continue reading →

Fifty eminent scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society including our own Director Nancy Reid. Read more about it here: https://royalsociety.org/news/2018/05/distinguished-scientists-elected-fellows-royal-society-2018/

CANSSI would like to congratulate Chad Gaffield, a member of our Board of Directors, for his recent appointment as Officer of the Order of Canada “for his leadership in interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration as a historian and administrator, and for … Continue reading →

Dear colleagues in the mathematical sciences, Canada’s research granting landscape is changing rapidly: CFREF, the direct mega-funding of special initiatives via Budget 2017, the frozen Tri-council, the Naylor report, the upcoming research mega-clusters, etc… Our community needs to be an … Continue reading →