2026 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
Rakheon Kim, Assistant Professor, Baylor University
)Paper titled "A Covariate-Dependent Cholesky Decomposition for High-Dimensional Covariance Regression with Application to Co-Expression QTL Detection"
Paper Awards
Ethan Ashby, Doctoral Student, University of Washington
Paper titled "Debiasing Hazard-Based, Time-Varying Vaccine Effects Using Vaccine-Irrelevant Infections: An Observational Extension of a Phase 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Trial"
Rebecca Deek, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Paper titled "Distance-Based Mutual Information Test of Multivariate Association in Microbiome Multiomics Studies"
Qi Xu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University
Paper titled "Blockwise Missingness Meets AI: A Tractable Solution for Semiparametric Inference"
The ASA Biometrics Section congratulates the award winners and committee members for their hard work.