Professor Gareth Roberts, whose research on advanced methods in computational statistics is enormously influential, has been recognised by the Royal Society through election as a Fellow:
New Fellows of the Royal Society announced for 2013

Many congratulations to Gareth!!

Warwick Statistics now has three recipients of the prestigious Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society. Pictured (left to right) with their medals are Gareth Roberts who won the award in 2008, John Copas to whom the award was made in 1987, and David Firth who received the Guy Medal in Silver for 2012 at the recent RSS Conference.

The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded annually to just one recipient, to recognise exceptional published research. Gareth, John and David are all well known for their deep and innovative contributions to statistical methodology; the 2012 award citation mentions also David's spectacular success in the more popular arena of election-night forecasting.

John Copas is Emeritus Professor at Warwick, and a former Head of Department. Gareth Roberts is the Director of the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) and also Co-Director of the MASDOC centre for PhD training. David Firth is the current Head of the Department of Statistics.

Wikipedia's page about the Guy Medals

At the 2012 International Biometrics Conference in Kobe, Japan, out of more than 200 contributed talks, eight were selected to receive awards. These included talks by two Warwick Statistics PhD students, Emmanuel Ogundimu and Markus Elze, both of whom received highly commended awards for their research presentations.
 
Congratulations to both Markus and Emmanuel!