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What is SBSS?

The Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) of the ASA provides a forum for statisticians and people who have interest in the Bayesian paradigm. The broad objectives of the Section are: to encourage research on theory and methods of statistical inference and decision making associated with Bayes' theorem and to encourage the application and proper use of Bayesian procedures in the behavioral, biological, managerial, engineering, environmental, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, physical, and social sciences.

Upcoming deadlines

We hope you can take part in JSM 2025!

  • The deadline for submitting a short course proposal is September 30th, 2024. For more info, see https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2025/submissions.cfm.
  • The deadline for the SBSS student paper competition is November 15th, 2024. The details will be announced on the SBSS site by the end of September.

2024 ASA SBSS student paper competition


Congratulations to the SBSS Student Paper Award Winners! Winners presented their work at JSM 2024 in Portland, Oregon, and were recognized at the JSM SBSS Mixer. Special congratulations to Francesco Pozza, who received the Laplace Award! Winners included the following students:

Alexander Dombowsky, Duke University

Arhit Chakrabarti, Texas A&M University

Yunshan Duan, University of Texas at Austin

Erin Lipman, University of Washington

Zejian Liu, Rice University

Francesco Pozza, University of Padova, Laplace Award Winner

Matthew Sainsbury-Dale, University of Wollongong

Gözde Sert, Texas A&M University

Dapeng Yao, Johns Hopkins University

Gehui Zhang, University of Pittsburgh

2023 ASA SBSS student paper competition


Congratulations to the SBSS Student Paper Award Winners! Winners presented their work at JSM 2023 in Toronto, and were recognized at the JSM SBSS Mixer. Winners included the following students:

Filippo Ascolani, Bocconi University

Francesco Gaffi, Bocconi University

Yunan Gao, Rice University

Joseph Feldman, Rice University

Masha Naslidnyk, University College London

Yueqi Shen, University of North Carolina

Xinyuan Tian, Yale University

James Willard, McGill University

Rentian Yao, University of Illinois

Yichen Zhu, Duke University

2022 ASA SBSS student paper competition


Congratulations to our SBSS Student Paper Award Winners and a special mention to the Laplace Award Winner Vittorio Orlandi from Duke University! Winners presented their work at the 2022 JSM and included the following scholars:

Junsouk Choi, Texas A&M UniversityJizhou Kang, University of California, Santa CruzBrian King, Rice UniversityTakuo Matsubara, Newcastle UniversityVittorio Orlandi, Duke UniversityJennifer Proper, University of MinnesotaZhuo Sun, University College LondonYaotian Wang, University of PittsburghYuliang Xu, University of MichiganZuheng Xu, University of British Columbia
Many thanks to our members who donated time as judges: Joseph Antonelli, Cici Bauer, Anirban Bhattacharya, François-Xavier Briol, Scott Bruce, Xuan Cao, Sameer Deshpande, Leo Duan, Joyee Ghosh, Rajarshi Guhaniyogi, Jingyu He, Hwanhee Hong, Guanyu Hu, Georgios Karagiannis, Jian Kong, Bledar Konomi, Daniel Kowal, Sirio Legramanti, Zehang Li, Simon Mak, David Matteson, Thomas Murray, Yang Ni, Georgia Papadogeorgou, Debdeep Pati, Christine Peterson, Qifan Song, Rebecca Steorts, Hyungsuk Tan, Xiaojing Wang, Jason Xu, Yanxun Xu, Giacomo Zanella, and Quan Zhou, along with Program Chair Veronica Berrocal and Chair-Elect and Student Paper Award Coordinator Huiyan Sang.