2022 Recipients

2022 David P. Byar Early Career Award Recipients

The David P. Byar Early Career Award is given annually to a new researcher in the Biometrics Section who presents an original manuscript at the Joint Statistical Meetings. The award commemorates David Byar, a renowned biostatistician who made significant contributions to the development and application of statistical methods during his career at the National Cancer Institute. In addition, we give out paper awards to deserving recipients.

We are pleased to announce the following 2022 recipients:


David P. Byar Early Career Award

Andrew Ying, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School.


Paper Awards

Bryan Blette, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Causal Inference, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, for his work done at the Department of Biostatistics at University of North Carolina

Sunyi Chi, PhD candidate at the Department of Biostatistics, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Souvik Seal, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Satwik Acharyya, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan

The ASA Biometrics Section congratulates the award winners and committee members for their hard work.