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.
Key dates: December 15th, 2021 (11:59pm EST)
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).
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Jacob Bien
Associate Professor
University of Southern California
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