Congratulations to Kwangmoon Park (advised by Sunduz Keles) on winning a 2025 International Chinese Statistical Association Student Travel Award for his paper titled “Systematic Background Selection for Enhanced Contrastive Dimension Reduction.” Kwangmoon will present the …
Student Awards
Student Awards
Qilin Hong wins ASA 2025 Early Career Award
Congratulations to graduate student Qilin Hong, mentored by Associate Professor Zhengzheng Tang, for winning the 2025 Early Career Award from the Section on Statistics in Epidemiology of the American Statistical Association. Qilin received the award …
Jingqi Duan wins the 2025 ENAR Distinguised Student Paper award.
Congratulations to Jingqi Duan for winning the 2025 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper award. Jingqi is mentored by Professor Sunduz Keles and Professor Hyunseung Kang. The winning paper is titled “Causal mediation analysis of perturbations with …
Wei wins 2024 NESS student paper award
Congratulations to Zhoujingpeng Wei, BDS PhD student advised by Zhengzheng Tang, for being one of ten winners of the 2024 NESS student paper awards. The winning paper is titled, “Melody: Meta-analysis of Microbiome Association Studies …
Chen and Longhurst win 2023 Joint ICSA/NIC-ASA student poster competition
Graduate students Grace Yi Chen and Colin Longhurst won the 1st and 3rd prizes, respectively, in the student poster competition at the 2023 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Midwest Chapter and the Northeastern Illinois Chapter …
Two BMI students win ASA SGG Student Paper Awards!
BMI graduate students, Kwangmoon Park (3rd year with Sunduz Keles) and Soham Ghosh (2nd year with Guanhua Chen) won two of the five 2023 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Student Paper …
Cheng Wins Award at National Library Medicine Training Conference
Congratulations to Jojo Cheng, graduate student in Associate Professor Guanhua Chen’s lab, for winning one of two awards for the best plenary talk at the National Library Medicine Training Conference. This conference brings together several …
Gao and Chen win COVID-19 Data Challenge, Task 1
Congratulations to graduate student Jifan Gao and Assistant Professor Guanhua Chen for their winning entry to Task 1 of the Pediatric COVID-19 Data challenge! Their submission, titled “A Model for Predicting Need for Hospitalization,” earned …
BDS student Jiacheng Miao wins ASA student paper competition
BDS PhD student Jiacheng Miao, advised by Assistant Professor Qiongshi Lu, won this year’s ASA Section on Statistical Genomics and Genetics Student Paper award. The paper is titled “A quantile integral linear model to quantify …
Thevaa Chandereng wins Thomas Chalmers award!
Thevaa Chandereng, whose advisor is Rick Chappell, added to his long list of honors by winning one of three Thomas Chalmers awards from the Society for Clinical Trials. He won the award for his work …