NESS Student Research Awards 2015

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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.


Student Research Awards

Year

Sponsor

Award Committee

Recipient(s)
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

Sorted by year and student last name

Year

Student

University

Paper Title

Advisor
2015 Yang Chen Harvard University Analyzing Single-Molecule Protein Transportation Experiments via Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models Samuel Kou
2015 Yu Lu Yale University Rate Optimal Graphon Estimation Harrison Zhou
2015 Yu-Bo Wang University of Connecticut A New Monte Carlo Method for Computing Marginal Likelihoods Lynn Kuo and Ming-Hui Chen
2015 Anderson Zhang Yale University Achieving Optimal Misclassification Proportion in Stochastic Block Model Harrison Zhou