UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 18 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Runze Li, Evan Pugh University Professor and Eberly Family Chair Professor in Statistics at Penn State, has been honored with the Gottfried E. Noether Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Statistical Association. The award is given each year to a distinguished senior researcher/teacher in nonparametric statistics and was established in 1999 to honor Gottfried Emanuel Noether, a leading scholar in nonparametric statistics with interests in research and teaching.
Li's research centers around developing statistical methods for high dimensional data, such as variable selection and feature screening, as well as non...