NESS Student Research Awards 2025

Sorted by year and student last name

Year

Student

University

Paper Title

2025 Elaine Chiu University of Wisconsin-Madison Exact Sensitivity Analysis for Observational Studies of Contingency Tables
2025 Shubhangi Ghosh Columbia University Signal-to-noise ratio aware minimax analysis of sparse linear regression
2025 Wenbo Jing New York University Data-Driven Knowledge Transfer in Batch Q^* Learning
2025 Xindi Lin University of Wisconsin-Madison Efficient estimation of semiparametric spatial point processes with V-fold random thinning
2025 Xinran Miao University of Wisconsin-Madison Transfer Learning Between U.S. Presidential Elections: How Should We Learn From A 2020 Ad Campaign To Inform 2025 Ad Campaigns?
2025 Shi Bo Boston University A Debiased Estimator for the Mediation Functional in Ultra-High-Dimensional Setting in the Presence of Interaction Effects
2025 Xin Yang University of Connecticut Integrative Learning of Quantum Dot Intensity Fluctuations under Excitation via Tailored Dynamic Mixture Modeling
2025 Jianan Zhu New York University Randomization-Based Inference for Average Treatment Effects in Inexactly Matched Observational Studies

In addition, the Best Presentation Awards are presented to: Chengpiao Huang (Columbia University) for “Uncertainty Quantification for LLM-Based Survey Simulations” Yi Liu (North Carolina State University) for “Targeted Data Fusion for Causal Survival Analysis Under Distribution Shift”