Guy Medals
Guy Medals are named after William Augustus Guy, the British medical statistician. The Bronze and Silver medals are awarded annually and the Gold medal is awarded every two years.
Guy Medal in Gold
The Guy Medal in Gold is a ‘lifetime achievement’ award given to a fellow of the Society judged to have merited distinction by innovative contributions to the theory or application of statistics.
2024 recipient: Peter Diggle
Peter has contributed both groundbreaking methodological work in spatial and longitudinal statistics as well as impactful applied work over a sustained period of close to fifty years.
2022 recipient: Nancy Reid
For pioneering work on higher-order approximate inference which provides a foundational basis for optimal information extraction from data, and has wide-ranging impact on the practice of data analysis.
The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded every two years and will next be awarded in 2026.*
*If in any biennial year a suitable candidate is not nominated, then an award may be made the following year.
Guy Medal in Silver
The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to a fellow of the Society in respect of a paper or papers of special merit communicated to the Society at its discussion meetings. Other contributions to statistics may also be considered.
2024 recipient: Jonathan Tawn
With a stellar publication career, Jonathan has made numerous pioneering contributions to the statistics of extremes and their profound influence on science and society. He has also shown an exceptional commitment to the training of early-career young researchers.
2023 recipient: Mark Girolami
The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to Mark Girolami for his contributions to computational statistics and machine learning - in particular, his work on differential geometric approaches to stochastic simulation for statistical inference, published in the paper “Riemann manifold Langevin and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods” (with co-author Calderhead), which was read to the Society in 2011.
The award of the Guy Medal in Silver is made each year if a suitable candidate is nominated.
The Guy Medal in Silver, the Bradford Hill Medal and the Howard Medal are intended for achievements of similar standards, subject to the different descriptions and requirements of the awards. The Honours Committee has the freedom to consider nominees for one of these medals for either of the other two if they satisfy the necessary specific criteria.
Guy Medal in Bronze
The Guy Medal in Bronze is awarded to a fellow of the Society in respect of excellent work presented to any conference or meeting run by the Society or published in any of the Society’s journals.
2024 recipient: Chris Oates
Chris has made outstanding highly significant contributions to computational statistics. His research has led to substantial improvements in the efficiencies of Bayesian Monte Carlo methods, which has impacted methodological and applied work in statistics and machine learning.
2023 recipient: Tengyao Wang
The Guy Medal in Bronze is awarded to Tengyao Wang for his contributions to high-dimensional statistics, including changepoint estimation, dimension reduction and missing data.
The award of the Guy Medal in Bronze is made each year if a suitable candidate is nominated.
Candidates nominated for the Guy Medal in Bronze and the Wood Medal may be considered for the other medal, provided they satisfy the necessary specific criteria.