Academician Chien-Fu Jeff Wu received the first Akaike Memorial Lecture Award and presented the lecture at 2016 Japan Joint Statistical Meeting held at Kanazawa University, from September 4 to September 7, 2016.
　　As the awardee, ISM and JSS are proud to announce to have retained Prof. C.F. Jeff Wu of Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The Institute of Statistical Mathematics and the Japan Statistical Society have named this lecture award after Dr. Hirotugu Akaike, who left a wide-reaching and influential legacy of research in the statistical sciences, and intend for these events to be both opportunities for exchange among statistical researchers from inside and outside Japan and to provide inspiration to young and talented researchers, contributing to further advances in this field.