2025 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 2025 recipients:
David P. Byar Early Career Award
Yu Lu, Doctoral Student in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, Paper titled “Generalized Conditional Functional Principal Component Analysis"
Paper Awards
Ajmery Jaman, Doctoral Student in the Department of Biostatistics at McGill University, Paper titled "Penalized G-Estimation for Effect Modifier Selection in a Structural Nested Mean Model for Repeated Outcomes"
Leif Verace, Doctoral Student in the Division of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at the University of Minnesota, Paper titled "Marginal Longitudinal Function-on-Function Regression"
Qiao Wang, Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University, Paper titled "Bayesian Hierarchical Models with Calibrated Mixtures of g-Priors for Assessing Treatment Effect Moderation in Meta-Analysis"
The ASA Biometrics Section congratulates the award winners and committee members for their hard work.