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.

The nomination form contains the criteria for this award. We also recommend reading the Guidance Notes available at www.rss.org.uk/honours before completing the form. Nominations are open between 1 May to 31 October each year. 

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.

The Guy Medal in Gold is awarded every two years and will next be awarded in 2024.*   

Nancy Reid

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. 
 

Nomination form and criteria 
Guy Medal in Gold nomination form 
 

*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.

The award of the Guy Medal in Silver is made each year if a suitable candidate is nominated.  

2023 Guy Medal in Silver: 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. 

2022 recipient: Paul Fearnhead

Awarded for numerous outstanding contributions to statistics, particularly in Bayesian computational statistics, changepoint methods, population genetics and inference for continuous-time stochastic processes.

 
Nomination form and criteria 
Guy Medal in Silver nomination form 
 

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. 

The award of the Guy Medal in Bronze is made each year if a suitable candidate is nominated.   

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.  




2022 recipient: Rajen Shah

Awarded for pioneering research on large-scale statistical learning, including important contributions to goodness-of-fit testing, interaction search and conditional independence testing.

Nomination form and criteria 
Guy Medal in Bronze nomination form 
 

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.