2026 Student Paper Competition Award Winners
The Section on Risk Analysis of the American Statistical Association is excited to announce the winners of our 2026 Student Paper Competition. The three winning papers are:
- "Modeling Disease-specific Survival in Observational Studies with Missing Cause of Death: Leveraging Information from Clinical Trial Data" by Yunyi Wang, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- "Understanding Variability of Crypto Assets with LASSO for Weakly Dependent Time Series of Tensors" by Jaidev Goel, Virginia Tech
- "PPD-CPP: Pointwise predictive density calibrated-power prior in dynamically borrowing historical information" by Shixuan Wang, University of Cincinnati
In addition, we recognize two honorable mentions:
- "Doctor Rashomon and the UNIVERSE of Madness: Variable Importance with Unobserved Confounding and the Rashomon Effect" by Srikar Katta, Duke University
- "ICODEN: Ordinary Differential Equation Neural Networks for Interval-Censored Data" by Haoling Wang, University of Pittsburgh
All five papers will be presented in a topic contributed session “Risk Analysis Student Paper Awards” at the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all entrants for their participation!