Congratulations to the 2024 Student Paper Winners and Honorable Mention Recipients!
The students whose papers earned honorable mention in this year’s competition will present their work in the Green Room (Lobby Level) on Monday, June 17, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
The Jiann-Ping Hsu Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Sciences Student Paper Award winner will present their work in the Green Room (Lobby Level), on Tuesday, June 18, at 2:00 p.m., as part of the Jiann-Ping Hsu Invited Session on Biostatistical and Regulatory Sciences.
The ICSA Student Paper Award winners will present their work in Symphony 1 (Lobby Level) on Tuesday, June 18, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.
The awards ceremony will be held during the symposium banquet, on Tuesday, June 18, in Symphony 2&3 (Lobby Level; tickets required).
ICSA Student Paper Awards - Winners
Liying Chen, University of Michigan, for “GraphR: A probabilistic modeling framework for genomic networks incorporating sample heterogeneity”
Chenyin Gao, North Carolina State University, for “Integrating randomized placebo-controlled trial data with external controls: A semiparametric approach with selective borrowing”
Jiacheng Miao, University of Wisconsin-Madison, for “Assumption-lean and data-adaptive machine learning-assisted inference with application to genome-wide association studies”
Yikun Zhang, University of Washington, for “Efficient inference on high-dimensional linear models with missing outcomes”
Shuozhi Zuo, Colorado School of Public Health, for “Mediation analysis with the mediator and outcome missing not at random”
Jiann-Ping Hsu Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Sciences Student Paper Award - Winner
Chang Wang, University of Michigan, for “Adaptive weight learning for multiple outcome optimization with continuous treatment”
Dr. Hsu (1947-2004), a longtime member of ICSA, was a leading biopharmaceutical researcher and consultant who mentored and trained more than sixty biostatisticians in industry, government, and academia during her career. This award was established with an endowment by Dr. Karl Peace.
ICSA Student Paper Awards - Honorable Mentions
Travis Canida, University of Maryland, for “Multivariate Bayesian variable selection with application to multi-trait genetic fine mapping”
Sydney Louit, University of Connecticut, for “CALF-SBM: A Covariate-Assisted Latent Factor Stochastic Block Model”
Shiyu (Richard) Shu, George Washington University, for “Longitudinal benefit-risk analysis through the desirability of outcome ranking (DOOR) with application to ACTT-1 Trial”
Yangjianchen Xu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for “Checking the Cox proportional hazards model with interval-censored data”
About the Competition
The 2024 awards were chaired by Ran Tao and Siyuan Ma, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. We thank the 32 reviewers who helped determine this year’s winners and honorable mentions:
Ai Ni, The Ohio State University
Bingxin Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
Chang Su, Emory University
Didong Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fangzheng Xie, Indianna University Bloomington
Fei Gao, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Gen Li, University of Michigan
Guanyu Hu, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Haoyu Zhang, National Cancer Institute
Jichun Xie, Duke University
Jin Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles
Lihua Lei, Stanford University
Linxi Liu, University of Pittsburgh
Lu Mao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lu Xia, Michigan State University
Ming Zhou, Bristol Meyers Squibb
Nianqiao Ju, Purdue University
Qi Zheng, University of Louisville
Qihuang Zhang, McGill University
Qingning Zhou, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Revathi Ananthakrishnan, Bristol Meyers Squibb
Rong Ma, Harvard University
Ruoqing Zhu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Shaoyang Ning, Williams College
Siddhesh Kulkarni, Bristol Meyers Squibb
Siyu Heng, New York University
Wodan Ling, Cornell University
Xiao Wu, Columbia University
Xinran Li, University of Chicago
Xuan Bi, University of Minnesota
Ying Ma, Brown University
Yuan Huang, Yale University
See the call for entries for details about eligibility and other criteria.
The 2024 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Award No. 2410953. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website or during the conference are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.