August 1, 2019
Hadley Wickham was given the COPSS Presidents' Award at the 2019 Joint Statistitical Meeting (JSM) in Denver, Co. The COPSS Presidents' Award, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Statistics", is presented to a person under 41 in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.
Hadley received his PhD from the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University in 2008 under the supervision of Di Cook and Heike Hofmann.