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Announcement: Winners of ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Competition 2025

  • 1.  Announcement: Winners of ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Competition 2025

    Posted 01-29-2025 12:04

    We received 90 eligible submissions. After two rounds of review scoring, the following six were picked as winners (in alphabetical order):

    Last

    First

    University

    Paper Title

    Ding

    Yizhe

    The Pennsylvania State University

    Statistical Convergence Rates of Optimal Transport Map Estimation between General Distributions

    Duan

    Jingyi

    Cornell University

    Active Subsampling for Measurement-constrained M-Estimation of Individualized Thresholds with High-dimensional Data

    Hellstern

    Michael

    University of Washington

    Assumption-Lean Inference for Spectral Differential Network Analysis of High-Dimensional Time Series

    Lee

    Seunghyun

    Columbia University

    Deep Discrete Encoders: Identifiable Deep Generative Models for Rich Data with Discrete Latent Layers

    Tian

    Ye

    Columbia University

    Learning from Similar Linear Representations: Adaptivity, Minimaxity, and Robustness

    Miao       

    Xinran          

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

    Transfer Learning Between U.S. Presidential Elections: How Should We Learn from A 2020 Ad Campaign To Inform 2024 Ad Campaigns?

    The last entry is on the Applied track.

    We also picked the following two as honorable mentions.

    Lee

    Seong Jin

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Low-Rank Online Dynamic Assortment with Dual Contextual Information

    Liu

    Pangpang

    Purdue University

    Dual Active Learning for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

    Congratulations to all the above!

    The six winners have been invited to present their work in a 2025 JSM topic-contributed paper session titled "SLDS Student Paper Awards" (0718). 

    SLDS 2025 Student Paper Competition Co-chairs: Yang Feng (yf31@nyu.edu) and Xiaoming Huo (huo@isye.gatech.edu)



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    Xiaoming Huo
    Professor
    Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
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