Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics awards innovations in statistical research with impact on society. This biennial prize is awarded in even years, and consists of a medal, a certificate, and a monetary reward of US$1,000,000, similar to the Nobel Prize in other disciplines. The home institution of the Prize is the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) in Belgium, which appoints the international jury and carries out the selection procedure. The award money comes from the Rousseeuw Foundation created by the statistician Peter Rousseeuw.

History The first Rousseeuw Prize was awarded on October 12, 2022, at KU Leuven, presented by King Philippe of Belgium. The awarded topic was Causal Inference with application in Medicine and Public Health, with laureates James Robins, Andrea Rotnitzky, Thomas Richardson, Miguel Hernán and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen.

The second Rousseeuw Prize was awarded on December 3, 2024 for work on The False Discovery Rate and Methods to Control It, with laureates Yoav Benjamini, Ruth Heller, and Daniel Yekutieli.

The third Rousseeuw Prize was awarded in 2026 to The R Project, see also R (programming language). Half of the prize money goes to the five laureates Brian D. Ripley, Martin Maechler, Kurt Hornik, Peter Dalgaard, and Luke Tierney. The second half goes to the other members of the R Core Team . Laureates

Year Laureate Institution Country Awarded innovation2022James RobinsHarvard School of Public HealthUnited States"For their pioneering work on causal inference with applications in medicine and public health."Andrea RotnitzkyTorcuato di Tella UniversityArgentinaThomas RichardsonUniversity of WashingtonUnited StatesMiguel HernánHarvard School of Public HealthUnited StatesEric TchetgenWharton School of the University of PennsylvaniaUnited States2024Yoav BenjaminiTel Aviv UniversityIsrael"For the pioneering work on the false discovery rate and methods to control it."Ruth HellerIsraelDaniel YekutieliIsrael2026Brian RipleyUniversity of OxfordEngland For "building R, the open-source language that has become the common foundation of modern statistical computing."Martin MächlerETH ZurichSwitzerlandKurt HornikWirtschaftsuniversität WienAustriaPeter DalgaardCopenhagen Business SchoolDenmarkLuke TierneyUniversity of IowaUnited States

Nominations for the prize are submitted to its website together with letters of recommendation. The organizers of the prize and its ceremony are Mia Hubert and Stefan Van Aelst.

Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics

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