David Cox Research Prize

The Research Prize is awarded annually to a fellow of the Society near the beginning of their research career for an outstanding published contribution to statistical theory or application. The winner is awarded £2,000 by the Society.

In 2021 it was announced that the Prize would be renamed after the former RSS President, Professor Sir David Cox.
 

 

2025 recipient: Kartik Waghmare
Kartik has made ground-breaking contributions to statistical theory, especially on the completion of positive definite kernel functions and the formulation of graphical models for Gaussian processes.
 

22024 recipient: Daniel García Rasines
Daniel has pioneered work on selective inference. In particular, he created a novel proposal for information splitting that has had significant impacts on the study of post-selection inference.

 

Nominations for the 2026 award are now open, and the deadline for the David Cox Research Prize is 31 October 2025. Read our nominations guidelines and download the nominations form.