Professors Tony Cai and Yuxin Chen of the Department of Statistics and Data Science have been honored with 2026 Leo Breiman Awards from the American Statistical Association’s Statistical Learning and Data Science Section. Cai received the Senior Award, and Chen received the Junior Award, alongside Anru Zhang of Duke University.
The Leo Breiman Awards recognize researchers whose theoretical or methodological contributions to machine learning and computational statistics have had a significant and lasting impact on both the field and its real-world applications.
