NESS Student Research Awards

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.


Student Research Awards

Year

Sponsor

Award Committee

Recipient(s)

2026 - Xingche Guo (Chair), Haim Bar, Yuan Bian, Biao Cai, Yuan Chen, Fan Dai, Rui Duan, Somak Dutta, Yinqiu He, Boyi Hu, Yifan Hu, Wei Jin, Victor Hugo Lachos, Fan Li, Haolin Li, Jeffrey Miller, Anarina Murillo, Xiyu Peng, Jiaming Qiu, Mary Lai Salvana, Dongyuan Song, Dingke Tang, Qinglong Tian, Guanyang Wang, Shanghong Xie, Zheng Xu, Cheng Yu, Haihan Yu, Bo Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Qian Zhao, Yi Zhao, Yize Zhao, Yidong Zhou, Ying Zhou, Alessandro Zito . [contact] Jongwoo Choi, Arindam Roy Chowdhury, Saksham Jain, Richard Liu, Yuying Lu, Souhardya Sengupta, Buxin Su, Jiaqi Tong, Junhui Yang, Munwon Yang
2025 MassMutual 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 MassMutual 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 MassMutual 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 MassMutual 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
2021 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 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 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 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 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst . [contact] Thibaut Horel, Aya Mitani
2017 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 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 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 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 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 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 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Ming-Hui Chen (Chair),Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Jun Yan . [contact] Alexander Blocker, Jeffrey Miller, Layla Parast, Hui Yao
2009 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Ming-Hui Chen (Chair),Vladimir Pozdnyakov, Jun Yan . [contact] Xiaojing Wang, Tasneem Zaihra, Jian Zou
2007 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Ming-Hui Chen, Joseph Glaz (Chair), Vladimir Pozdnyakov . [contact] Sourish Das, Xiaohong Li, Jingchen Liu, Andrew Thomas
2005 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Ming-Hui Chen, Joseph Glaz (Chair), Vladimir Pozdnyakov . [contact] Gopika Goswami