Awards
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2024
Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee Earns 2024 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Xiang Zhou Earns 2024 Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition (MBioFAR) Award from the University of Michigan Biosciences Initiative
Dr. Michael Elliott Earns 2024 Monroe G. Sirken Award in Interdisciplinary Survey Methods Research from the American Statistical Association
Nathaniel Osher Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SSGG) of the American Statistical Association
Qingzhi Liu Earns 2024 Student Paper Award Honorable Mention from Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
Fatema Shafie Khorassani Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from Lifetime Data Science (LiDS) Section of the American Statistical Association
Chang Wang Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
Yuan Zhong Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from Statistics in Imaging Section of the American Statistical Association
Mengbing Li Earns 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region
Qinmengge Li Earns 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region
Qingzhi Liu Earns 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region
Di Wang Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from ASA Biometrics Section Early Career Paper Award
Lulu Shang Earns 2023-24 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award from University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School
Di Wang Earns 2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School
Zheng Li Earns 2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School
Nelsy Castro-Webb Earns Elizabeth M. Dusseau Scholar from U-M Center for the Education of Women+
2023
Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee Earns Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society
Dr. Jeremy Taylor Earns Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award
Dr. Lu Wang Named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Madeline Abbott Earns Student Poster Award Winner from International Chinese Statistical Association
Liying Chen Earns Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) from International Chinese Statistical Association
Zikai Lin Earns Student Poster Award Winner from International Chinese Statistical Association
Wenchu Pan Earns Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) from International Chinese Statistical Association
Soumik Purkayastha Earns Student Most Outstanding Written Paper Award from International Biometic Society: Western North American Region
Soumik Purkayastha Earns Student Most Outstanding Presentation Award (Runner-up) from International Biometic Society: Western North American Region
Mukai Wang Earns Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) from International Chinese Statistical Association
Leyao Zhang Earns Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) from International Chinese Statistical Association
Di Wang Earns Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region
Nicholas Hartman Earns First Place Winner: APHS/Stata Scholar Award from American Public Health Association: Applied Public Health Statistics Section
Nicholas Hartman Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings: ASA Health Policy Statistics Section
Jieru Shi Earns Travel Award from 14th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics
Jieru Shi Earns Junior Research Paper Travel Award from American Causal Inference Conference
Yao Song Earns Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region
Tsung-Hung Yao Earns Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region
Brady Ryan Earns Doctoral Foreign Study Award from Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Soumik Purkayastha Earns Rising Star Award from U-M School of Public Health
Hanna Venera Earns Unsung Hero Award (Honorable Mention) from U-M School of Public Health
Mengbing Li Earns Poster Competition Winner from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region
Qinmengge Li Named Poster Competition Winner from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region
Soumik Purkayastha Earns Predoctoral Fellowship from U-M Rackham Graduate School
Madeline Abbott Earns Best Oral Presentation Winner from Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences
Jieru Shi Earns Best Oral Presentation (Honorable Mention) from Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences
Kiran Kumar Earns Best Speed Oral Presentation (Honorable Mention) from Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences
Guoxuan Ma Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings: Statistics in Imaging Section
Qinmengge Li Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings: ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Bangyao Zhao Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings: Biometrics
Stephen Salerno Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings
2022
Dr. Michael Boehnke Earns Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award
Dr. Tom Braun Earns Outstanding Teaching Award from ASA Section on Teaching Statistics to Health Sciences
Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Dr. Xu Shi Earns Outstanding Statistical Applications Award from ASA
Dr. Peter Song Earns U-M School of Public Health Excellence in Research Award
Dr. Matt Zawistowski Earns U-M School of Public Health Excellence in Teaching Award
Tsung-Hung Yao Earns 2022 Travel Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Rupam Bhattacharyya Earns 2022 Travel Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Rupam Bhattacharyya Earns 2022 Student & Early Career Travel Award from the American Statistical Association
Emily Roberts Earns Student Paper Award from the Joint Statistical Meetings, Lifetime Data Science Section of ASA
Dr. Trivellore Raghunathan wins 2022 ASA Monroe Sirken Award
Biostatistics Professor Trivellore Raghunathan has won the 2022 ASA Monroe Sirken
Award. This award recognizes distinguished researchers for contributions to interdisciplinary
survey research that improve the theory and methods of collecting, verifying, processing,
presenting, or analyzing survey data. Dr. Raghunathan will give the Sirken Lecture
at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
Dr. Veera Baladandayuthapani Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Professor Veera Baladandayuthapani has been elected a fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Veera's impactful and innovative research,
dedicated mentoring of doctoral and postdoctoral scholars, visionary leadership of
Cancer Data Science shared resource core have been a tremendous asset for our department
and the institution.
Di Wang receives LiDS 2022 Student Paper Award
PhD Student Di Wang received the LiDS 2022 Student Paper Award from the ASA Lifetime
Data Science Section. This award is for her paper titled: Kullback-Leibler-Based Discrete
Failure Time Models for Integration of Published Prediction Models with New Time-To-Event
Dataset (joint work with Wen Ye, Randall Sung, Hui Jiang, Jeremy Taylor and myself).
Dr. Satwik Acharyya Receives of the 2022 ASA Early Career Paper Award
Dr. Satwik Acharyya, a Biostatistics Postdoctoral Research Fellow, is a recipient
of the 2022 early career paper award from ASA Biometrics section. This award is for
his paper titled: SpaceX: Gene Co-expression Network Estimation for Spatial Transcriptomics.
(joint work with Dr. Xiang Zhou and Dr. Veera Baladandayuthapani)
Yuliang Xu won 2022 ASA Student Paper Award
Yuliang Xu won a 2022 ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) student paper
award. This award recognizes her paper entitled “Bayesian Image Mediation Analysis”.
Yuliang will present this paper in 2022 JSM.
Xuemei Ding received a Young Investigator Award by the ASA
Xuemei Ding received a Young Investigator Award by the ASA Section on Statistics in
Epidemiology. The award recognizes her excellent paper entitled "Models and Methods
for Analyzing Clustered Recurrent Hospitalizations in the Presence of COVID-19 Effects".
This paper is based on a joint work with Dr. Jack Kalbfleisch and Dr. Kevin(Zhi) He.
Yibo Wang ASA Student Paper Competition Winner
Yibo Wang is a Student Paper Competition Winner of the ASA Section on Survey Research
Methods. She will be presenting “Sample Size Estimation in Respondent-Driven Sampling”
at the 2022 JSM.
Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee awarded 2022 Sarah Goddard Power Award
Named after the late Regent Sarah Goddard Power, the award recognizes individuals
who have made significant contributions to the betterment of women through their leadership,
scholarship or other ways in their professional life.
Zikai Lin has received an ENAR 2022 Distinguished Student Paper Award
Zikai Lin has received an ENAR 2022 Distinguished Student Paper Award for his paper
entitled “Latent Subgroup Identification in Image-on-scalar Regression”. Zikai is
working on his dissertation with Dr. Yajuan Si Dr. Jian Kang.
Mengtong Hu received an ENAR Distinguished Student Paper
Mengtong Hu received an ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards for the ENAR 2022
Spring Meeting. The award recognizes her excellent paper entitled "Collaborative causal
inference with a distributed data-sharing management", based on her first dissertation
paper co-supervised by Xu Shi and Dr. Peter Song.
2021
Four Biostatistics Faculty Receive Promoting Progress in Statistics (ProPS) Awards
- Dr. Tom Braun, professor, for his proposal “Bayesian Methods for Incorporating Patient Preference into Randomized Controlled Trials”
- Dr. Hui Jiang, associate professor, for his proposal “Statistical and Computational Methods for Constrained Variable Selection for Survival Analysis”
- Dr. Wen Ye, research scientist, for her proposal “Variable selections for High Dimensional Survival Data in the Presence of Missing Covariates”
- Dr. Zhi He, research associate professor, for his proposal “Time-dependent Kullback-Leibler discrimination information approach to integrate the local time-to-event data with previously published survival models”
The goals of this funding mechanism are to enhance the validity, accuracy, or efficiency of clinical and translational research; to foster faculty and trainees in developing new statistical methods; and to provide a resource for generating preliminary data as a foundation for external grant applications and publication success.
Jiaqiang Zhu has been awarded a One-Term Dissertation Fellowship
This prestigious fellowship is awarded by the department to an outstanding student
who is actively working on dissertation research and writing.
Biostatistics Professor Xu Shi Awarded a 2021 Precision Health Investigators Award
This awards program aspires to nurture groundbreaking multidisciplinary research projects
that advance the field of precision health through the use and/or enrichment of Precision
Health data, tools, methods, and techniques. Dr. Shi's research is titled “Automated
Harmonization of Multi-institutional Electronic Health Records Data”
Biostatistics Professor Hui Jiang Awarded a 2021 Precision Health Investigators Award
This awards program aspires to nurture groundbreaking multidisciplinary research projects
that advance the field of precision health through the use and/or enrichment of Precision
Health data, tools, methods, and techniques. Dr. Jiang's research is titled “Statistical
and Computational Methods for Asymmetric Integration of Datasets from Different Cancers
for the Identification of Cancer-related Genes and Biomarkers in Case-control Analyses”
Lingxuan Kong Awarded Rackham International Student Fellowship
Lingxuan Kong has been awarded a Rackham International Student Fellowship. Recipients
of this award are chosen for their strong academic record and outstanding academic
and professional promise. Congratulations, Lingxuan!
Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee receives Janet L. Norwood Award
Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee has received the 20th Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding
Achievement by a Woman in Statistical Sciences. Given by the University of Alabama
at Birmingham’s Department of Biostatistics, the award recognizes outstanding career
achievement by a woman in the statistical sciences. Congratulations, Dr. Mukherjee!
Theresa Devasia Wins Young Investigator Award
PhD Candidate Theresa Devasia has been awarded 1st Place in the Therapy CoE 2021 Young
Investigator Awards for her abstract "Progression and toxicity following liver Y90
radioembolization: impact of dose metrics, clinical factors, and biomarkers ".
Elizabeth C. Chase Wins Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship
Elizabeth C. Chase, a 4th year PhD student in our department, is the winner of this
year's Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship awarded by the American Statistical Association.
Elizabeth will receive a certificate and an honorarium at this year's Joint Statistical
Meetings.
Dr. Tom Braun Elected as a Fellow of the ASA
Tom Braun has been elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association. The
award ceremony will take place in JSM 2021. Congratulations, Dr. Braun!
Dr. Jian Kang Elected as a Fellow of the ASA
Congratulations to Dr. Jian Kang, who has been elected as a fellow of the ASA. The
award ceremony will take place in JSM 2021.
Dr. Peter Song Elected to Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Dr. Peter Song has been elected to Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
IMS Fellowship honors the outstanding research and professional contributions of IMS
members, contributions that help keep IMS in a leading role in the field of statistics
and probability.
Yiwang Zhou Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
PhD Candidate Yiwang Zhou was awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.
STATCOM awarded the 2021 SPH Community Engagement Award
Biostatistics student organization, STATCOM (Statistics in the Community), has been
awarded the 2021 SPH Community Engagement Award. This award is given to a student
organization that has demonstrated, through its actions, the importance of public
health practice and fostering community engagement through service activities, fundraising,
advocacy, or other such activities.
Dr. Roderick Little to Receive 2022 Waksberg Award.
Dr. Roderick Little has been selected to receive the 2022 Waksberg Award. As a recipient
of the Waksberg Award, Dr. Little will receive an honorarium and presents the 2022
Waksberg Invited Address at the Statistics Canada Symposium to be held in the fall
of 2022. The associated paper will be published in a subsequent issue of Survey Methodology.
Emily Roberts Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
PhD Candidate Emily Roberts was awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.
Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee a 2021 Purdue University Distinguished Woman Scholar
Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee was selected as a 2021 Purdue University Distinguished Woman
Scholar. The award honors alumnae who earned a Purdue doctorate and have made significant
scholarly contributions to their respective academic communities.
Tian Gu Wins JSM Student Paper Award
Tian Gu's paper “An ensemble meta-prediction framework to integrate multiple external
models“ won 1st place in the ASA Biopharmaceutical section student paper competition
for the Joint Statistical Societies Meeting 2021.
Josh Weinstock Awarded Fellowship
Josh Weinstock was awarded the NHLBI BioData Catalyst Fellowship. The NHLBI BioData
Catalyst Fellows Program provides early-career researchers (graduate students, postdocs,
junior faculty, and others) the opportunity to receive funding to help support research
on novel and innovative data science and data-focused research problems.
Nick Hartman Winner of ASA Risk Analysis Student Paper Award
Nick Hartman is a winner of the ASA Risk Analysis Section's Student paper award for
his article entitled "Extending the Concordance Index to Left-Truncated Time to Event
Data". Nick will present the paper at the JSM in August.
Yuming Sun Wins ASA Risk Analysis Student Paper Award
Yuming Sun, a doctoral student supervised by Dr. Jian Kang and Dr. Yi Li, wins a 2021
ASA Risk Analysis Student paper award. His award-winning paper, Individualized Risk
Assessment of Preoperative Opioid Use by Interpretable Neural Network Regression,
"particularly impressed the committee with the fact that in the paper a significant
effort has been made to reduce the gap between the statistical and machine learning
fields." Yuming is expected to present this paper in the 2021 JSM.
Theresa Devasia Received LiDS 2021 Student Paper Award
Theresa Devasia has received the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section 2021 Student Paper
Award for her paper “Efficiency of the Breslow estimator in semiparametric transformation
models".
Wei Hao Received ASA Young Investigator Award
Wei Hao has received a Young Investigator Award by the ASA Section on Statistics in
Epidemiology. This award is given to her paper "A simultaneous likelihood test for
joint mediation effects of multiple mediators".
Wenbo Wu Receives ASA Student Paper Award
Wenbo Wu received the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section 2021 Student Paper Award.
The award recognizes his excellent paper entitled Analysis of Readmissions Data Taking
Account of Competing Risk. This paper is based on a joint work with Jack Kalbfleisch,
PhD, Xu Shi, PhD, Doug Schaubel, PhD and Kevin(Zhi) He, PhD.
2020
Jonathan Boss Receives 2021 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
PhD Candidate Jonathan Boss has received an ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
for his paper entitled Group Inverse-Gamma Gamma Shrinkage for Sparse Regression with
Application to Correlated Environmental Exposure Data. This is work from his first
thesis chapter. Jonathan is working on his dissertation with Jian Kang and Bhramar
Mukherjee.
Kelly Speth Receives 2021 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
PhD Candidate Kelly Speth has received one of the ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards. The award recognizes her excellent paper entitled Clustered Q-Learning to Inform the Empirical Construction of an Optimal Clustered Adaptive Intervention. This is her second doctoral dissertation paper, and she will present it at the ENAR 2021 Spring Meeting.
Daiwei Zhang Receives 2021 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
PhD Candidate Daiwei (David) Zhang has received a 2021 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award. The award recognizes his excellent paper entitled Image-on-scalar regression via neural networks. This paper is based on the second project of his dissertation work.
PhD Candidate Rupam Bhattacharyya Joint Winner of Student Paper Competition
Rupam Bhattacharyya was a Joint Winner of Student Paper Competition organized by International
Indian Statistical Association, 2020 (Applications Section). Rupam's paper, titled
Personalized Network Modeling of the Pan-Cancer Patient and Cell Line Interactome,
is available online at this link.
Graduate Student, Yi Zhao, Wins Honorable Mentions in the MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge
A project led by our graduate student, Yi Zhao, has won the honorable mentions in the MIDAS reproducibility challenge. The project, named "quantify and control reproducibility in high-throughput experiments", proposes novel concepts and computational methods to aid evaluate and control replicability in high-throughput biological experiments. A paper summarizing the results of the project will soon appear in the journal Nature Methods. The authors of the paper are Yi Zhao, Matthew Sampson (Harvard/Boston Children's Hospital), and Xiaoquan Wen.
PhD Candidate Emily Roberts Receives SPH Unsung Hero Award
Emily has been awarded the University of Michigan School of Public Health’s Unsung
Hero Award! Emily is recognized for her commitment to student life and her contributions
to the UM SPH community. Thank you for all you do, Emily!
PhD Candidate Holly Hartmen Receives Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship Award
Holly Hartman has been selected as one of 2 winners of the Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship
Award for her outstanding research and efforts bolstering diversity, equity and inclusion!
Congratulations, Holly!
PhD Candidate Lan Luo Received ASA Student Competition Award
Lan Luo's second dissertation paper “Real-time regression analysis of streaming clustered
datasets” has received a Student Competition Award for the ASA's Section on Statistical
Learning and Data Science 2020 (SLDS2020). Well done, Lan!
PhD Candidate Sarah Hanks wins Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award
Please join us in congratulating graduate student Sarah Hanks on her successful application
for an NIH F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service
Award. Sarah’s grant, entitled “Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Long-Read
Sequencing Data,” provides Sarah 2 years of support for her doctoral studies. Congratulations,
Sarah!
Ming Tang Received a Young Investigator Award by ASA
Ming Tang has received a Young Investigator Award by the ASA Section on Statistics in Epidemiology! She will present her dissertation paper "Nested Step-adjusted Tree-based Reinforcement Learning (SAT-Learning) for Evaluating Nested Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Test-and-Treat Observational Data", jointly with Professor Lu Wang and professor Jeremy Taylor, at JSM 2020 Philadelphia.
Guangyu Yang Wins ENAR Student Paper Award
Guangyu Yang has won one of the International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region’s (ENAR) Distinguished Student Paper Awards for the 2020 ENAR Spring Meeting in Nashville, TN. The award recognizes her excellent paper entitled Estimation of Knots in Linear Spline Models, which is based on the first chapter of her PhD dissertation. Congratulations Guangyu Yang for your excellent and hard work!
PhD Candidate Lu Xia won 2020 ASA Biometrics Section JSM Travel Award
PhD Candidate Lu Xia won a 2020 ASA Biometrics Section JSM Travel Award for her thesis paper, entitled "A revisit to de-biased Lasso for generalized linear models." Lu is going to accept the award and present her work at JSM this summer. Congratulations Lu!
Professor Rod Little wins Marvin Zelen Leadership award
Congratulations to our much admired colleague Professor Rod Little for winning a very
c
oveted honor in the field, the Marvin Zelen Leadership award. This annual award, supported by colleagues, friends and family, was established
to honor Dr. Marvin Zelen’s long and distinguished career as a statistician and his
major role in shaping the field of biostatistics.
Professor Bhramar Mukherjee wins 2020 L. Adrienne Cupples Award
Professor Bhramar Mukherjee has been selected as the winner of the 2020 L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics.
The award was created and awarded by the Boston School of Public Health to recognize a biostatistician whose academic achievements reflect the contributions to teaching, research, and service exemplified by Professor L. Adrienne Cupples. Congratulations, Dr. Mukherjee!