Student Paper Competition - JSM 2023
Sponsored by: ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS)
Key date: December 15th, 2022 (11:59 pm EST)
The Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is sponsoring a student paper competition for the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings to be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on August 5th - 10th, 2023. The paper should be original theoretical, methodological, or applied research that uses principles of statistical learning and data science. Papers that have been accepted for publication are NOT eligible for the competition. Student winners will present their papers in a designated topic-contributed session at the 2023 JSM organized by the award committee. In this session, they will be presented with a monetary prize ($1000) and an award certificate. Additionally, several honorable mentions may be awarded.
Eligibility:
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The student (graduate or undergraduate) must be enrolled in a degree-granting institution on December 1, 2022.
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The student must be the first author of the paper (joint first authorships are not allowed).
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The paper must NOT be accepted for publication at the time of submission.
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The student must be a member of the ASA SLDS section.
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The student must be willing to attend and present the paper at the 2023 JSM.
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Students may submit the same paper to be considered for student paper competitions to at most two ASA sections. If and when students win and accept an award from one section, they must inform the other sections involved, thereby removing them from the competition for the other section.
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Each student may only submit one paper to this competition.
Applications:
Please use this form (https://forms.gle/GddBdzsT37kBdzJQ8) to submit the paper by December 15th, 2022, at 11:59 PM EST. This form will ask you to upload a blinded manuscript that removes any author-identifying information. The submitted manuscript can follow any style and formatting, but the length of the paper is limited to at most 30 pages double-spaced (excluding references and appendices). The form will also ask for a letter from the applicant’s faculty advisor. The letter should include a verification of the applicant’s student status and, in the case of joint authorship, should indicate what fraction of the contribution is attributable to the applicant. All materials must be in English. Please submit the manuscript and the letter as PDF files.
Selection Criterion:
Submissions will be reviewed by the SLDS Student Paper Competition Award committee. The selection criteria used will include statistical novelty, innovation and significance, relevance to statistical learning and data science, and the professional quality of the manuscript.
For questions, please contact the SLDS 2023 Student Paper Competition Co-chairs, Xingye Qiao (qiao@math.binghamton.edu) and Kean Ming Tan (keanming@umich.edu).
Archived Events and Announcements
Call for Papers
Student Paper Competition - JSM 2022
Sponsored by: ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS)
Key dates: December 15th, 2021 (11:59pm EST)
The Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is sponsoring a student paper competition for the 2022 Joint Statistical Meetings to be held in Washington DC on August 6th - 11th, 2022. The paper should be original theoretical, methodological, or applied research that uses principles of statistical learning and data science. Papers that have been accepted for publication are NOT eligible for the competition. Student winners will present their papers in a designated topic-contributed session at the 2022 JSM organized by the award committee. In this session, they will be presented with a monetary prize ($1000) and an award certificate. Additionally, several honorable mentions may be awarded.
Eligibility:
- The student (graduate or undergraduate) must be enrolled in a degree-granting institution on December 1, 2021.
- The student must be the first author of the paper (joint first authorships are not allowed).
- The paper must NOT be accepted for publication at the time of submission.
- The student must be a member of the ASA SLDS section.
- The student must be willing to attend and present the paper at the 2022 JSM.
- Students may submit the same paper to be considered for student paper competitions to at most two ASA sections. If and when students win and accept an award from one section, they must inform the other sections involved, thereby removing them from the competition for the other section.
- Each student may only submit one paper to this competition.
Applications:
Please use this form (https://forms.gle/nR1rJaSznjveTWNP7) to submit the paper by December 15th, 2021, at 11:59 PM EST. This form will ask you to upload a blinded manuscript that removes any author identifying information. The submitted manuscript can follow any style and formatting, but the length of the paper is limited to be at most 30 pages double spaced (excluding reference and appendices). All materials must be in English. Please submit the manuscript as a PDF file.
Selection Criterion:
Submissions will be reviewed by the SLDS Student Paper Competition Award committee. The selection criteria used will include statistical novelty, innovation and significance, relevance to statistical learning and data science, and the professional quality of the manuscript.
For questions, please contact the SLDS 2022 Student Paper Award Co-chairs, Xingye Qiao (qiao@math.binghamton.edu) and Jacob Bien (jbien@usc.edu).
Call for papers
Student Paper Competition - JSM 2021
Sponsored by: ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Key dates: December 15th, 2020 (11:59pm EST)
The Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is sponsoring a student paper competition for the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle, Washington, on August 7th - 12th, 2021. The paper should be original theoretical, methodological, or applied research that uses principles of statistical learning and data science. Papers that have been accepted for publication are NOT eligible for the competition. Student winners will present their papers in a designated topic-contributed session at the 2021 JSM organized by the award committee. In this session, they will be presented with a monetary prize ($1000) and an award certificate. Additionally, several honorable mentions may be awarded.
Eligibility:
- The student (graduate or undergraduate) must be enrolled in a degree-granting institution on December 1, 2020.
- The student must be the first author of the paper (joint first authorships are not allowed).
- The paper must NOT be accepted for publication at the time of submission.
- The student must be a member of the ASA SLDS section.
- The student must be willing to attend and present his or her paper at the 2021 JSM.
- Students may only submit a manuscript to be considered for student paper competitions to at most two ASA sections. Students must inform both sections applied to when he or she wins and accepts an award, thereby removing the student from the award competition for the second section.
Applications:
Please use this form to submit your paper by December 15th, 2020, at 11:59 PM EST. This form will ask you to upload a blinded manuscript that removes any author identifying information. The submitted manuscript can follow any style and formatting. All materials must be in English.
Selection Criterion:
Submissions will be reviewed by the SLDS Student Paper Competition Award committee. The selection criteria used will include statistical novelty, innovation and significance, relevance to statistical learning and data science, and the professional quality of the manuscript.
For questions, please contact Dr. Irina Gaynanova, SLDS 2021 Student Paper Award Chair, irinag@stat.tamu.edu
Data Science in Action in Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19
Archived Webinars
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Friday, 06/19/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Yifan Zhu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Use PASSWORD "2020" at Webex Link):
A statistical transmission model for COVID-19 outbreak with adjustment of external factors
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Friday, 06/26/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Kimia Ghobadi, Johns Hopkins University
The opportunities and challenges of healthcare systems in the COVID-19 era
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Friday, 07/10/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Yuan Ji, University of Chicago
Semiparametric Bayesian inference for the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 with a state-space model
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Friday, 07/17/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Nicholas Reich, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Details TBA
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Friday, 07/24/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Bin Yu, University of California Berkeley
Details TBA.
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More webinars TBA (suggestions are welcome; contact any organizing committee member)
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Friday, 04/17/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Peter X. Song University of Michigan (Video | Slides available from Dr. Song upon request):
An epidemiological forecast model to assess the effect of social distancing on flattening the coronavirus curve in the USA
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Friday, 04/24/2020, 10 am EDT, Dr. Song Xi Chen, Peking University (Video | Slides):
Tracking reproductivity of COVID-19 pandemic with varying coefficient epidemiological models
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Friday, 05/01/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Lily Wang, Iowa State University (Video | Slides):
COVID19 US dashboard: Spatiotemporal dynamics, nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 in the United States
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Friday, 05/08/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Jing Qin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (Video | Slides):
Estimation of incubation period distribution of COVID-19 using disease onset forward time: A novel cross-sectional and forward follow-up study
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Friday, 05/15/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. David Corliss, Peace-Work (Video | Slides):
COVID-19: Analytic studies and opportunities for outside of epidemiology
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Friday, 05/22/2020, 11 am EDT, COV-IND-19 Study Group ( (Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan; Dr. Debashree Ray, Johns Hopkins University; Rupam Bhattacharyya, University of Michigan; and Maxwell Salvatore, University of Michigan) (Video | Slides):
Predictions, role of interventions and implications of a national lockdown on the COVID-19 outbreak in India
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Friday, 05/29/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Grace Yi, University of Western Ontario (Video | Slides):
Can the reported COVID-19 data tell us the truth? Scrutinizing the data from the measurement error models perspective
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Friday, 06/05/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Usha Govindarajulu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Video | Slides):
A biostatistician's encounter with COVID-19 in New York City
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Friday, 06/12/2020, 11 am EDT, Dr. Dean Follmann, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (Video | Slides):
Statistics and modeling in response to COVID-19 at NIAID
New SLDS Webinar
Title: Introductory Overview Lectures in Social Network
Presenters: Daniel Sewell, University of Iowa, Tianxi Li, University of Virginia, and Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas at Austin
Date and Time: Friday, April 3, 2020, 2:30pm-4:00pm. Eastern Time
Sponsor: Statistical Learning and Data Science Section
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 1, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time
Description:
The vision for social network analysis is to characterize networked structures of individuals. As we are entering a big-data era when rich information about individual behavior is collected, analyzing the connection and dependence among individuals is drawing great attention, especially in the fields of social media networks, knowledge transmission, organizational studies and even anomaly detection. In this webinar, we will introduce exploratory network data analysis, visualization, static network modeling, and optimization for network based inference. Three experts will illustrate their experiences and knowledge from different perspectives. Practical examples will be discussed. The webinar aims at providing an introduction of modern social network analysis to non-statisticians, statisticians and data scientists with varying statistical knowledge.
Registration:
SLDS Section Members: $0
ASA Members: $15
Nonmembers: $30
Each registration is allowed one web connection. Sound is received via audio streaming from your computer’s speakers. Multiple persons are encouraged to view each registered connection (for example, by projecting the webinar in a conference room).
Registration Link: https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Education/Web-Based-Lectures.aspx
ASA Statistical Learning and Data Science Section Breiman Award Nominations Sought
The Breiman Award Committee of the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section, chaired by Professor David Madigan, invites nominations for the senior and junior awards in honor of Professor Leo Breiman (1928-2005).
Breiman's work helped to bridge the gap between statistics and computer science, particularly in the field of machine learning. His most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees, ensemble estimators, and random forests.
The Breiman Award Committee selects the Breiman senior scholar and junior scholar based on outstanding theoretical or methodological contributions to machine learning and/or computational statistics, contributions which have made a substantial, sustained impact on the subject and on practical applications. Nominations are accepted in odd-numbered years.
The award includes a monetary prize, a plaque, and an invited lecture at JSM two years later.
The Breiman junior scholar must have received a doctoral degree no earlier than 2007, and been a SLDS section member at least for two years, as of December 15, 2019.
Nominations are due by December 15, 2019. A nomination packet including a nominating letter, up to three supporting letters (the nominator may also write one of the supporting letters), and curriculum vitae of the nominee should be sent to:
Breiman Award Committee Chair
David Madigan, Professor of Statistics
Columbia University
david.madigan AT columbia.edu
ASA SLDS 2020 Student Paper Competition
Call for papers
Student Paper Competition - JSM 2020
Sponsored by: ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Key dates: December 15th, 2019 (11:59pm EST)
The Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is sponsoring a student paper competition for the 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 1st - 6th, 2020. The paper should be original theoretical, methodological, or applied research that uses principles of statistical learning and data science. Papers that have been accepted for publication are NOT eligible for the competition. Student winners will present their papers in a designated topic-contributed session at the 2020 JSM organized by the award committee. In this session, they will be presented with a monetary prize ($1000) and an award certificate. Additionally, several honorable mentions may be awarded.
Eligibility:
- The student (graduate or undergraduate) must be enrolled in a degree-granting institution on December 1, 2019.
- The student must be the first author of the paper.
- The paper must NOT be accepted for publication at the time of submission.
- The student must be a member of the ASA SLDS section.
- The student must be willing to attend and present his or her paper at the 2020 JSM.
- Students may only submit a manuscript to be considered for student paper competitions to at most two ASA sections.
Applications:
Please use this form to submit your paper by December 15th, 2019, at 11:59 PM EST. This form will ask you to upload a blinded manuscript that removes any author identifying information. The submitted manuscript can follow any style and formatting. All materials must be in English.
Selection Criterion:
Submissions will be reviewed by the SLDS Student Paper Competition Award committee. The selection criteria used will include statistical novelty, innovation and significance, relevance to statistical learning and data science, and the professional quality of the manuscript.
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Previous Announcements
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ASA SLDS 2019 Student Paper Competition
Call for papers
Student Paper Competition - JSM 2019 Sponsored by: ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Key dates: December 15th, 2018 (11:59pm EST) The Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) is sponsoring a student paper competition for the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver, Colorado, on July 27th-August 1st, 2019. The paper should be original theoretical, methodological, or applied research that uses principles of statistical learning and data science. Papers that have been accepted for publication are NOT eligible for the competition. Student winners will present their papers in a designated topic-contributed session at the 2019 JSM organized by the award committee. In this session, they will be presented a monetary prize ($1000) and an award certificate.
Eligibility:
- The student (graduate or undergraduate) must be enrolled in a degree granting institution on December 1, 2018.
- The student must be the first author of the paper.
- The paper must NOT be accepted for publication at the time of submission.
- The student must be a member of the ASA SLDS section.
- The student must be willing to attend and present his or her paper at the 2019 JSM.
- Students may only submit a manuscript to be considered for student paper competitions to at most two ASA sections.
Applications:
Please use this form to submit your paper by December 15th, 2018, 11:59 EST. This form will ask you to upload a blinded manuscript that removes any author identifying information. The submitted manuscript can follow any style and formatting. All materials must be in English.
Selection Criterion:
Submissions will be reviewed by the SLDS Student Paper Competition Award committee. The selection criteria used will include statistical novelty, innovation and significance, relevance to statistical learning and data science, and the professional quality of the manuscript.
The Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science / Nonparametric Statistics
Monday, June 3 - Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Upcoming SLDS Conference!
Mark your calendars! The Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science / Nonparametric Statistics, will be held June 3-6, 2018 at Columbia University.
The program will be chaired by SLDS' very own Annie Qu (anniequ@illinois.edu) and Cynthia Rudin (cynthia@cs.duke.edu).
Thank you, Annie and Cynthia, for putting together a great program!
Registration is now open!
Click HERE to register online.
The paper registration form is: SLDS2018_Reg_Form.pdf
If you are looking for the website for 4th International Symposium SLDS 2018 in Paris
Please see here.
ASA SLDS JSM 2018 Student Paper Competition