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2026 Student Paper Competition 

The Risk Analysis Section (RAS) is excited to announce that the 2026 Student Paper Competition is open! Submissions are due on November 15, 2025. Please find complete details here.

The Section on Risk Analysis of the American Statistical Association is excited to announce the winners of our 2025 Student Paper Competition. The two winning papers are:

•  "Joint Modeling of Two Longitudinal Biomarkers and Clustered Survival Data with Application to Periodontal Disease" by Sean Feng (Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto)
• "Bayesian Nonparametric Risk Assessment in Developmental Toxicity Studies with Ordinal Responses" by  Jizhou Kang  (Department of Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz)
  

 In addition, we recognize two honorable mentions:

• "Developing Performance-Guaranteed Biomarker Combination Rules with Integrated External Information under Practical Constraints" by Albert Osom (Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington)
• "Non-Parametric Survival Analysis of Transient Data: A Pseudo-Competing Risk Approach" by Yimeng  Shang  (School of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University)

 All four papers will be presented in a topic contributed session “Risk Analysis Student Paper Awards” at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings. Congratulations to the winners and thanks all entrants for their participation.