2023 Recipients

2023 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 2023 recipients:


David P. Byar Early Career Award

Sarah Lotspeich, Vanderbilt University-Optimal Multi-Wave Validation of Secondary Use Data with Outcome and Exposure Misclassification


Paper Awards

Rong Ma, University of Pennsylvania--A Spectral Method for Assessing and Combining Multiple Data Visualizations

Cole Manschot, North Carolina State University--Interim Monitoring of Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials Using Partial Information

Chao Cheng, Yale University--Doubly Robust Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis for Marginal Structural Quantile Models

Bangyao Zhao, University of Michigan--Bayesian learning of COVID-19 Vaccine safety while incorporating Adverse Events ontology



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