Kavita Ramanan, PhD, Roland George Dwight Richardson University Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, has been named President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). She served as President-Elect from August 2024, will hold the post of President until August 2026, and will serve as Past-President from August 2026 through July 2027.

The IMS is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. Founded in 1935, the organization has approximately 4,000 members around the world. It publishes a range of leading academic journals, including Annals of Statistics, Annals of Probability, Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of Applied Probability, and Statistical Science. IMS also organizes several international conferences each year. Since 2005, IMS has offered joint memberships with the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability and the International Statistical Institute.

As President, Ramanan will lead the IMS Executive Committee, which also includes Tony Cai (Past President), Richard Samworth (President-Elect), Annie Qu (Program Secretary), Jiashun Jin (Treasurer), and Peter Hoff (Executive Secretary). Newly elected officials formally assumed their roles at the annual IMS business meeting, held during the Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville.

Ramanan is widely recognized for her contributions to probability theory and stochastic processes, with applications across stochastic analysis, statistical physics, operations research, and stochastic networks. She has garnered several awards in recognition of her research, including the Erlang Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been an active member of the IMS community for many years, most recently having served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Applied Probability from 2022 to 2024. She brings a deep commitment to advancing the society’s global mission, promoting convergent research, and making the IMS valuable for each of its members.