NESS Student Research Awards 2025

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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)
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

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”