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NESS Student Research Awards have a long history. The winners will be selected by the NESS Student Research Awards committee based on the overall quality of the research, and they will be acknowledged at the symposium and will receive a plaque in honor of their accomplishments. Please note that award winners from previous years are not eligible for another award.

Submission information for the 36th New England Statistics Symposium can be found here: https://symposium.nestat.org/awards.html.

Sponsored by MassMutual

Year	Award Committee	Recipient(s)
2025	Fan Li (Chair), Ashley Buchanan, Jeff Buzas, Xinyuan Chen, Roberta DeVito, Rui Duan, Nadeesha Jayaweera, Daeyoung Kim, Fatima Shafie Khorassani, Rebecca Kurtz-Garcia, Wenrui Li, Tao Liu, Rong Ma, Jeffrey Miller, Rajarshi Mukherjee, Haben Michael, Arman Oganisian, Yuki Ohnishi, Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Jing Qian, Douglas E. Schaubel, Adam Sales, Neil Spencer, Molin Wang, Xiao Wu, Wenbo Wu, Qi Zhang, Yi Zhao, Yichi Zhang, Yize Zhao, Qian Zhao. [contact]	Elaine Chiu, Shubhangi Ghosh, Wenbo Jing, Xindi Lin, Xinran Miao, Xin Yang, Shi Bo, Jianan Zhu
2024	Neil Spencer(Chair), Timothy Barry, Jeff Buzas, Luis Carvalho, Roberta DeVito, Alex Franks, Nadeesha Jayaweera, Daeyoung Kim, Rebecca Kurtz-Garcia, Wenrui Li, Fan Li, Yang Liu, Omar Melikechi, Haben Michael, Kendra Plourde, Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Zhao Ren, Adam Sales, Fatima Shafie Khorassani, Yandi Shen, Carlos Soto, Fangfang Wang, Jerzy Wieczorek, Alex Young, Yichi Zhang, Qi Zhang, Qian Zhao, Alessandro Zito. [contact]	Kyle Stanley, Yi Zhang, Omar Hagrass, Sofia Vega, Zhoujingpeng Wei, Yiming Li, Yikun Zhang, Blake Hansen, Madhav Sankaranarayanan, Yihan Bao
2023	Gina Peloso (Co-Chair), Yang Lin (Co-Chair), Marie-Abele C Bind, Lelys Bravo de Guenni, Howard Cabral, Ming-Hui Chen, Seung Hoan Choi, Akshunna S. Dogra, Jeremy Gaskins, Nadeesha Jayaweera, Sayar Karmakar, Chi Hyun Lee, Jung Wun Lee, Xihao Li, Xinyi Li, Austin Menger, Paula Moraga, Heather Shappell, Neil Spencer, Emily Patricia Stephen, Steffen Ventz, Wei Wang, Ce Yang, Alex Young, Xiaonan Zhu, Beth Ziniti. [contact]	Alan N. Amin, Di Wang, Gary Hettinger, Jing Wang, Kaidi Kang, Penghui Huang, Tianle Liu, Ye Tian
2022	Xiaojing Wang (Chair), Marco Avella, Xiaohui Chang, Lorin Crawford, Guanyu Hu, Victor Hugo Lachos Davila, Henry Lam, Fan Li, Gen Li, Junwei Lu, Yulong Lu, Shariq Mohammed, Gavino Puggioni, Elizabeth Schanifo, Fangfang Wang, HaiYing Wang, Zheng Wei, Min Xu, Yanxun Xu, Yun Yang, Zhigen Zhao. [contact]	Yiqun T. Chen, Siyu Heng, Kuanhao Jiang, Xi Jiang, Chanwoo Lee, Namitha Viona Pais, Shuting Shen, Xiaoqing Tan, Haofeng Zhang, Wenzhuo Zhou

Sponsored by IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Year	Award Committee	Recipient(s)
2021	Xiaojing Wang (Chair), Ta-Hsin Li (Co-Chair), Luis Carvalho, Erin Conlon, Yuqi Gu, Yuwen Gu, Jeff Miller, HaiYing Wang, Jing Wu, Yao Zheng, Guangyu Zhu, Jian Zou. [contact]	Tianyu Pan, Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Liang Wang, Eli N. Weinstein, Lili Wu
2019	Yuping Zhang (Co-Chair), Beatriz (Stefa) Ethcegaray Garcia (Co-Chair), Tian Bao, Stavroula Chrysanthopoulou, Charles Contant, Zhou Fan, Guojun Gan, Fang Han, Guanyu Hu, Songqiao Huang, Huijing Jiang, Chih-Hwa Kao, Kriti Kohli, Lynn Kuo, Victor Hugo Lachos Davila, Michael Larsen, Oleksii Mostovyi, Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Kerrie Nelson, Zhao Ren, Liyang Song, Jing Wu, Panpan Zhang, Ting Zhang, Yaohua Zhang, Wei Zheng, Mary Zhao. [contact]	Moming Li, Yan Li, Xiaokang Liu, Wei Shi
2018	Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst. [contact]	Thibaut Horel, Aya Mitani
2017	Jacob Bien, Kun Chen, Zhiyi Chi, Forrest Crawford, Victor Hugo Lachos Davila, Beatriz E. Etchegaray Garcia, Patrick Flaherty, Yuwen Gu, Lynn Kuo, Kung-Yao Lee, Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Viadimir Pozdnyakov, Fangfang Wang, Haiying Wang, Pei Wang, Jun Yan, Panpan Zhang, Yuping Zhang (Chair), Yizhe Zhao. [contact]	Zach Branson, Yeongjin Gwon, Suzanne Thornton, Elizabeth Upton, Wenjie Wang
2015	Haim Bar, Kun Chen, Ming-Hui Chen (Chair), Zhiyi Chi, Beatriz E Etchegaray Garcia (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Ofer Harel, Lynn Kuo, Elizabeth Schifano, Xiaojing Wang, Jun Yan. [contact]	Yang Chen, Yu Lu, Yu-Bo Wang, Anderson Zhang
2013	Ming-Hui Chen (Chair), Zhiyi Chi, Ofer Harel, Lynn Kuo, Fei W Liu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Jun Yan. [contact]	Alexander Franks, Gyuhyeong Goh, Zhao Ren
2011	Ming-Hui Chen (Chair),Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Jun Yan. [contact]	Alexander Blocker, Jeffrey Miller, Layla Parast, Hui Yao
2009	Ming-Hui Chen (Chair),Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Jun Yan. [contact]	Xiaojing Wang, Tasneem Zaihra, Jian Zou
2007	Ming-Hui Chen, Joseph Glaz (Chair), Vladimir Pozdnyakov. [contact]	Sourish Das, Xiaohong Li, Jingchen Liu, Andrew Thomas
2005	Ming-Hui Chen, Joseph Glaz (Chair), Vladimir Pozdnyakov. [contact]	Gopika Goswami

Sponsored by Google and Microsoft

Sorted by year and student last name

Year	Student	University	Paper Title	Advisor
2010	Keith Betts	Harvard University	Robust Survival Prediction via Linear Transformation Models	David Harrington
2010	Alexander Blocker	Harvard University	A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Time Symmetry in Light Curves: Reconsidering Scorpius X-1 Occultations	Xiao-Li Meng
2010	Mark Fiecas	Brown University	The Generalized Shrinkage Estimator For Spectral Analysis of Multivariate Time Series	Hernando Ombao
2010	Ada Lau	University of Oxford	Spatiotemporal Kriging and Correlation Modeling of Wind Power Generation	Patrick McSharry
2010	Xianchao Xie	Harvard University	Multiple Imputation: A Negotiation of Two Parties	Xiao-Li Meng
2010	Sihai Zhao	Harvard University	Principled Sure Independence Screening for Cox Models with Ultra-High-Dimensional Covariates	Yi Li

Other sponsors

Other sponsors include ASA Boston Chapter, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Harvard University, PROMETRIKA, SAS Institute Inc. JMP Division, Boston University and MassMutual Data Science.

Sorted by year and student last name

Year	Student	University	Paper Title	Advisor
2018	Xiaoxuan Cai	Yale University	Causal inference for infectious disease interventions in networks	Forrest Crawford
2018	Angelica Estrada	Smith College	Helping the Red Cross Predict Flooding in Togo	Oumayma Koulouh and Jessica Wert
2018	Ayako Miura	University of Rhode Island	Evaluating the Effects of Attitudes on Health-Seeking Behavior among a Network of People who Inject Drugs	Ashley Buchanan, Samuel R Friedman and Natallia Katenka
2014	Elham Azizi	Boston University	Learning Modular Structures from Network Data and Node Variables	James Galagan
2014	Thiago Costa	Harvard University	Local Algorithm to Estimate Graphons by Stochastic Blockmodels Approximation	Edoardo Airoldi
2014	Peng Ding	Harvard University	A Paradox from Randomization-Based Causal Inference	Donald Rubin, Luke Miratrix, and Tirthankar Dasgupta
2014	Ian Johnston	Boston University	Hierarchical Gene-Proximity Models for Genome-Wide Association Studies	Luis Carvalho
2012	Karthik Bharath	University of Connecticut	Do Jumps Lead to Clusters?	Dipak Dey and Vladimir Pozdnyakov
2012	Alexander Blocker	Harvard University	Template-Based Methods for Analyzing Chromatin Structure Dynamics Genome-Wide	Edoardo Airoldi
2012	Hossein Soufiani	Harvard University	Graphlet Decomposition of a Weighted Network	Edoardo Airoldi

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