NESS Student Research Awards 2007

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)

2007 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Ming-Hui Chen, Joseph Glaz (Chair), Vladimir Pozdnyakov . [contact] Sourish Das, Xiaohong Li, Jingchen Liu, Andrew Thomas

Sorted by year and student last name

Year

Student

University

Paper Title

Advisor

2007 Sourish Das University of Connecticut Model Diagnostics for Generalized Linear Models Dipak Dey
2007 Xiaohong Li University of Massachusetts An Expectation Conditional Maximization Approach to Estimation of Malaria Haplotype Frequencies Andrea Foulkes
2007 Jingchen Liu Harvard University Efficient Simulation for Large Deviation Probabilities of Sums of Heavy-tailed Increments Jose Blanchet and Xiao-Li Meng
2007 Andrew Thomas Harvard University Perfect Sampling of a Probit Model Posterior Jose Blanchet