2024
WINNER: Kehao Zhu, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Title: Weighted Brier Score - an Overall Summary Measure with Clinical Utility Consideration
WINNER: Zhirui Fu, Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Semiparametric Change Point Model for Survival Outcomes in the Presence of a U-Shaped Risk
WINNER: Yuyang Li
Title: Quantile Regression and Machine Learning in Options Trading: Unraveling Risk Differences between Physical and Risk-Neutral Densities in the S&P 500 Index
HONORABE MENTION: Wenhao Li, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Backward Joint Model for Dynamic Prediction using Multivariate Longitudinal and Competing Risk Data
2023
WINNER: Lang Zeng, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Dynamic Prediction using Time-Dependent Cox Survival Neural Network
Co-authors: Jipeng Zhang, Wei Chen, and Ying Ding
WINNER: Jingning Zhang, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: An Ensemble Penalized Regression Method for Multi-ancestry Polygenic Risk Prediction
Co-authors: Haoyu Zhang, Jin Jin, Ruzhang Zhao, Cheng Ma, and Nilanjan Chatterjee
HONORABLE MENTION: Ronak Mehta, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
Title: Stochastic L-Risk Minimization
Co-authors: Vincent Roulet, Krishna Pillutla, Lang Liu, and Zaid Harchaoui
HONORABLE MENTION: Xinyang Jiang, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, University of Texas Health Science Center
Title: Addressing Subject Heterogeneity in Time-dependent Discrimination for Biomarker Evaluation
Co-authors: Wen Li, Ruosha Li, and Jing Ning
2022
WINNER: Jiyang Wen, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: Joint Inference of Competing Risks Data Using Multiple Endpoints
Co-authors: Chen Hu and Mei-Cheng Wang
WINNER: Jackson Lautier, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
Title: Modeling Time-to-Event Contingent Cash Flows: A Discrete-Time Survival Analysis Approach
Co-authors: Vladimir Pozdnyakovy and Jun Yany
WINNER: Jing Zhang, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Title: Evaluating Dynamic Discrimination Performance of Risk Prediction Models for Survival Outcomes
Co-authors: Jing Ning and Ruosha Li
HONORABLE MENTION: Jun Jin, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut
Title: Hard Landing Analysis by Transfer Learning for High-dimensional Quantile Regression
Co-authors: Jun Yan and Kun Chen
HONORABLE MENTION: Zhiwei Zhen, The University of Texas at Dallas
Title: Tlife-GDN: Detecting and Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Anomalies via Persistent Homology and Geometric Deep Learning
Co-authors: Yuzhou Chen, Ignacio Segovia-Dominguez, and Yulia R. Gel
2021
WINNER: Nicholas Hartman, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Title: Extending the Concordance Index to Left-Truncated Time-to-Event Data
Co-authors: Sehee Kim, Kevin He, and John D. Kalbfleisch
WINNER: Yuming Sun, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Title: Individualized Risk Assessment of Preoperative Opioid Use by Interpretable Neural Network Regression
Co-authors: Jian Kang, Chad Brummett, and Yi Li
HONORABLE MENTION: Maria A. Sans-Fuentes, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
Title: Benchmark dose risk analysis with mixed-factor quantal data in environmental risk assessment
Co-authors: Walter W. Piegorsch
2020
WINNER: Yuchen Yang, Johns Hopkins University: Title: Using benefit-risk process to evaluate treatment effect in the presence of multiple endpoints in randomized clinical trials ( with Chen Hu, Mei-Cheng Wang)
RUNNER UP: Carlynn Fagnant, Rice University: Characterizing spatiotemporal trends in extreme precipitation in Southeast Texas (with A Gori, A Sebastian, P.B. Bedient, K.B. Ensor)
2019
WINNER: Qinxia Wang, Columbia University
RUNNER UP: Wen Li, MD Anderson Cancer Center
2018
WINNER: Amal Agarwal, Pennsylvania State University: Model-Based Clustering of Nonparametric Weighted Networks with Application to Water Pollution Network Analysis
RUNNER UP: Xingyuan Li, University of Pittsburgh: Modeling exposure-time-response association in the presences of competing risks
2017
WINNER: Zifeng Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison, ATM: Autoregressive Tail-index Model for Maxima in Financial Time Series
RUNNER UP: Yizhen Xu, Brown University: Classification using Ensemble Learning under Weighted Misclassification Loss
2013
WINNER: Steven Kim, University of California Irvine: A Diversity Index for Model Selection in the Estimation of Benchmark and Infectious Doses via Frequentist Model Averaging (with R. L. Kodell and H. Moon).
RUNNER UP: Beom Seuk Hwang (Ohio State University): Semiparametric Bayesian Joint Modeling of a Binary and Continuous Outcome with Applications in Toxicological Risk Assessment (with M. L. Pennell).
2012
Trina Patel, Department of Biostatistics UCLA School of Public Health: Toxicity Profiling of Engineered Nanomaterials via Multivariate Dose Response Surface Modeling (with Donatello Telesca, Saji George, and André E. Nel).
2011
Miguel de Carvalho, Ecole Polytechnique Fe'de'rale de Lausanne,Switzerland: Spectral Density Ratio Models for Multivariate Extremes (with A. C. Davison)
Matthew Wheeler, University of North Carolina and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Bayesian Monotonic Semi-parametric Benchmark Dose Analysis (with A. John Bailer).
2010
Yan Sun was awarded $1000 as the section's Student/Young Research Paper award winner for 2010. Her manuscript was entitled "Regularization for Stationary Multivariate Time Series (with Xiaodong Lin). She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH.
2009
Ya-Hsiu Chuang, University of Pittsburgh Bayesian model averaging approach in health effect studies: Sensitivity analyses using PM10 and cardiopulmonary hospital admission in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, and simulated data (with Sati Mazumdar)
Tim van Erven, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Catching up faster by switching sooner: A prequential solution to the AIC-BIC dilemma (with Peter Gruenwald and Steven de Rooij)
2005
Afisi Segun Ismaila, McMaster University
Comparison of Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches in Modeling Risk of Preterm Birth Near the Sydney Tar Ponds, Nova Scotia, Canada (with Angelo Canty and Lehana Thabane)
Chengyong Tang, Iowa State University
Inference of Value at Risk for Dependent Financial Returns (with Song Xi Chen and Chengyong Tang)
2003
M. Brent McHenry, University of Pittsburgh
A Modified Estimator for the Cumulative Covariate Effect in Aalen's Additive Risk Model
1999
Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, University of Minnesota
Statistical Analysis of Salmonellosis Outbreak Data