NESS Student Research Awards 2021

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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)
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

Sorted by year and student last name

Year	Student	University	Paper Title	Advisor
2021	Tianyu Pan	University of California, Irvine	Identifying latent groups in spatial panel data using a Markov random field constrained product partition model	Weining Shen, Guanyu Hu
2021	Md. Tuhin Sheikh	University of Connecticut	New Bayesian C-indices for Assessing Importance of Longitudinal Biomarkers in Fitting Competing Risks Survival Data in the Presence of Partially Masked Causes	Ming-Hui Chen
2021	Liang Wang	Boston University	Deviance Matrix Factorization	Luis Carvalho
2021	Eli N. Weinstein	Harvard University	Bayesian Data Selection	Jeffrey W. Miller
2021	Lili Wu	North Carolina State University	Estimating spatially varying health effects of wildland fire smoke using mobile health data	Shu Yang

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