The WNAR of the IBS Outstanding Impact Award and Lectureship was established in 2021 to recognize an individual or a team, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality or citizenship, who has made a significant impact on our society through service and/or research in development and application of statistical, mathematical, and data science theory and methods in the biomedical and environmental sciences. For example, awardees may be individuals or team whose research and/or service in biometrics has made a direct impact on serving underrepresented communities, promoting social justice, addressing environmental issues, or transforming scientific practice, and can comprise either a single contribution of extraordinary merit or an outstanding aggregate of contributions.
Dr. Debashis Ghosh is Professor of the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. Ghosh's nomination package clearly demonstrated his highly impactful research contributions to the fields of biometrics and science at large. He is specifically recognized for his statistical innovation and excellence in the areas of recurrent event analysis and genomics, for rigorous evaluation of kernel machines used in machine learning, and his contributions to the development of the popular cancer genomics database, ONCOMINE. WNAR is very proud of its outstanding members, represented by Dr. Ghosh.
