Awards and Prizes

Claeskens, G.

    • Noether Young Scholar Award 2004. “For outstanding achievements and contributions in nonparametric statistics”.
    • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Croux, C.

    • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

De Ketelaere, B.

  • Young Statistician Award. 9th European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics meeting in Göteborg, Sweden. September 2009.

Gijbels, I.

    • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for “outstanding contributions to the statistical profession”, since 2002.
    • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), since 2002.
    • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) for “fundamental contributions to the field of nonparametric statistics, especially nonparametric smoothing, change-points and nonparametric survival analysis; and for invaluable services to the profession...”, since 2006.

Jansen, M.

    • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), since 2006.

Molenberghs, G.

    • Royal Statistical Society: Guy Medal in Bronze. 2002
    • Excellence in Continuing Education Award of the American Statistical Association for Course on “Longitudinal Data Analysis”, presented by Verbeke, G. and Molenberghs, G. at the Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, New York August 13, 2002. Awarded at the Joint Statistical Meetings in San Francisco, California, August 04, 2003.
    • Fellow of the American Statistical Association, since 2003
    • Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Myrto Lefkopoulou distinguished Lectureship 2004-2005 (lecture delivered on September 30, 2004)
    • Mitchell Lectureship Recipient, University of Glasgow UK. Awarded May 25, 2005
    • Excellence in Continuing Education Award of the American Statistical Association for Course on “Longitudinal and Incomplete Data Analysis”, presented by Verbeke, G. and Molenberghs, G. at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 08, 2004. Awarded in Minneapolis, U.S.A., August 07, 2005.
    • American Statistical Association (Biopharmaceutical Section), Best Contributed Paper Award (Mehrotra, D.V., Molenberghs, G., and Wolfinger, R.D.) 2005
    • Excellence in Continuing Education Award of the American Statistical Association for Course on “Analysis of Clinical Trials: Theory and Application”, presented by Dmitrienko, A., Chuang-Stein, C., and Molenberghs, G. at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. August 09, 2005. Awarded in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., August 07, 2006.
    • Belgian Francqui Chair, Faculté Universitaire de Gembloux, 2006-2007
    • Excellence in Continuing Education Award of the American Statistical Association for Course on “Discrete Longitudinal Data”, presented by Verbeke, G. and Molenberghs, G. at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado August 04, 2008. Awarded at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, District of Columbia, August 2009.
    • Belgian Francqui Chair, Universiteit Antwerpen, 2008-2009.
    • Excellence in Continuing Education Award of the American Statistical Association for Course on “Foundations and Recent Advances in Longitudinal and Incomplete Data”, presented by Verbeke, G. and Molenberghs, G. at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami 2011.
    • Accreditation with the American Statistical Association (ASA) 2010-2016.

Pleysier, S

  • Laureate of the Frans Van Cauwelaertprijs 2010 of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts.

Vandebroek, M.

    • Lloyd Nelson award from the Journal of Quality Technology Editorial Review Board, for the paper “Practical inference from industrial split-plot designs”. Goos P., Langhans I., Vandebroek M., 2006, Journal of Quality Technology, vol. 38, no. 2 (Apr.), pp. 162-179 The Lloyd S. Nelson Award recognizes the article in the most recent volume of JQT that had the greatest immediate impact to practitioners

Van Huffel, S.

    • Fellow of the IEEE since 2009.
    • Nominated for the CERA senior award (prize for the most social engineer).
    • Top abstract award: 19th World Congress of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology organised by the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), Hamburg, Germany, September 13-17, 2009. T. Bourne, D. Timmerman, J. Zhang, L. Valentin, D. Paladini, C. Van Holsbeke, A.A. Lissoni, L Savelli, J Veldman, A.C. Testa, F. Amant, S. Van Huffel, L. Ameye. A practical approach to preoperatively assess ovarian pathology: combining pattern recognition and mathematical models.
    • Top 5 abstract: B. Van Calster, G. Condous, E. Kirk, S. Van Huffel, T. Bourne, D. Timmerman. What measurements are needed to classify pregnancies of unknown location? 19th World Congress of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology organised by the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), Hamburg, Germany, August 24-28, 2009.
    • Best poster award 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization (BFG09), Leuven,
      Sept. 14-18, 2009: M. Ishteva, L. De Lathauwer, S. Van Huffel, P. A. Absil. Best multilinear rank approximation of tensors: a trust-region algorithm and local minima.
    • Mathematica award for the poster presentation: I. Markovsky, A. Kukush and S. Van Huffel, “Consistent estimation of an ellipsoid with known center”. 16th COMPSTAT symposium of the International Association for Statistical Computing on Computational Statistics, Prague, Czech Republic, August 23-27 2004..
    • Honorable mention (2nd place) Householder Prize 2008. Ivan Markovsky, “Exact and approximate modeling in the behavioral setting” (promotors: Sabine Van Huffel and Bart De Moor) Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, February 1, 2005.
    • Finalist student paper competition. 30th annual international conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2008), Vancouver, Canada, August 20-24, 2008.  J. Corhout, S. Van Huffel, M.O. Mendez, A. M. Bianchi, T. Penzel, S. Cerutti, “Automatic screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnea from the ECG based on Empirical Mode ecomposition and Wavelet Analysis”.

Van Mechelen, I.

    • Award for best 2005 paper in Journal of Research in Personality (for paper co-authored by Kristof Vansteelandt and John Nezlek), 2006.
    • Fellow Association for Psychological Science, since 2007.

Verbeke, G.

    • Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) since 2007.
    • Excellence-In-Continuing-Education Award for 2003, selected by the Advisory Committee on Continuing Education of the American Statistical Association, for the short course “Longitudinal data analysis”, taught by Geert Verbeke  and  G. Molenberghs, at the Joint Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of Canada), New-York City, U.S.A., August 13, 2002. 
    • Excellence-In-Continuing-Education Award for 2005, selected by the Advisory Committee on Continuing Education of the American Statistical Association , for the short course “Longitudinal and Incomplete Data”, taught by Geert Verbeke  and  G. Molenberghs, at the Joint Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of Canada), Toronto, Canada, August 8, 2004. 
    • Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), “for outstanding contributions to methodological and collaborative research on mixed models, longitudinal data, and incomplete data; for dedication to statistical education and scientific consultancy, and for editorial and administrative service to profession”, since 2005. 
    • International Biometric Society Award for the best Biometrics paper in 2006 for the paper “Pairwise Fitting of Mixed Models for the Joint Modeling of Multivariate Longitudinal Profiles”, Fieuws S.  and Geert Verbeke, Biometrics (2006), 62, 424-431. The award is presented at the International Biometric Conference 2008, Dublin, Ireland, on July 15, 2008.
    • Excellence-In-Continuing-Education Award for 2009, selected by the Advisory Committee on Continuing Education of the American Statistical Association, for the short course “Models for discrete repeated measures”, taught by Geert Verbeke  and  G. Molenberghs, at the Joint Statistical Meetings (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Biometrics Society, and the Statistical Society of Canada), Denver, U.S.A., August 5, 2008.
    • Excellence in Continuing Education Award of the American Statistical Association for Course on “Foundations and Recent Advances in Longitudinal and Incomplete Data”, presented by Verbeke, G. and Molenberghs, G. at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami 2011.
    • Accreditation with the American Statistical Association (ASA) 2010-2016.