On behalf of the Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) of the American Statistical Association (ASA), I am pleased to announce five finalist papers for this year's SPES + Q&P Student Paper Competition. The titles and authors of the five finalist papers are (in random order):
A Deterministic Sampling Method via Maximum Mean Discrepancy Flow with Adaptive Kernel
Yindong Chen, Lulu Kang, Chun Liu - Illinois Institute of Technology
Yiwei Wang - Illinois Institute of Technology, University of California Riverside
PERCEPT: A New Online Change-Point Detection Method Using Topological Data Analysis
Xiaojun Zheng, Simon Mak - Duke University
Liyan Xie - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Yao Xie - Georgia Institute of Technology
Federated Gaussian Process: Convergence, Automatic Personalization and Multi-Fidelity Modeling
Xubo Yue, Raed Al Kontar - University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Sequential Designs for Filling Output Spaces
Shangkun Wang, Adam Generale, Surya Kalidindi, V. Roshan Joseph - Georgia Institute of Technology
Simulation-Based Inference with Waldo: Confidence Regions by Leveraging Prediction Algorithms or Posterior Estimators for Inverse Problems
Luca Masserano, Mikael Kuusela, Ann B. Lee - Carnegie Mellon University
Tommaso Dorigo - INFN, Sezione di Padova
Rafael Izbicki - Federal University of São Carlos
The finalists will present their work to a panel of judges during the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Toronto, Canada.
Congratulations to the finalists! Many thanks to the reviewers for all their time, hard work, and efforts in evaluating the manuscripts of the competition participants!
We look forward to seeing you all at the SPES and Q&P Student Paper Award session at the 2023!
Dr. Arman Sabbaghi - Program Chair of the ASA SPES
Dr. Anne Driscoll - Program Chair of the ASA Quality and Productivity (Q&P) Section