2025 ICSA Student Paper Awards
The ICSA Student Travel Award winners will present their work in Session 95 – Student Paper Awards Session 1 : Monday, June 16, 1-2:30 p.m (Location: MCHU 108) and Session 96 – Student Paper Awards Session 2: Tuesday, June 17, 1-2:30 p.m (Location: MCHU 108).The ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Award winners will present their work in Session 95 – Student Paper Awards Session 1 : Monday, June 16, 1-2:30 p.m (Location MCHU 108) and Session 100 – Student Paper Awards Session 3: Tuesday, June 17, 5-6:30 p.m (Location MCHU 108).
The Jiann-Ping Hsu Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Sciences Student Paper Award winner will present their work on session 83 on Monday, June 16, 1-2:30 p.m. (Location: MCHU 305), as part of the Jiann-Ping Hsu Invited Session on Biostatistical and Regulatory Sciences.
The students whose papers earned honorable mention in this year’s competition will present their work on Session 96 – Student Paper Awards Session 2: Tuesday, June 17, 1-2:30 p.m (Location: MCHU 108) and Session 100 – Student Paper Awards Session 3: Tuesday, June 17, 5-6:30 p.m (Location MCHU 108).
The awards ceremony will be held during the symposium banquet, on Tuesday, June 17, in Rome Ballroom (tickets required).
ICSA Student Paper Award – Winners
Kwangmoon Park
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“A Principled Background Selection Criterion for Contrastive Dimension Reduction”
Yixi Xu
Indiana University
“Parsimonious Clustering of Covariance Matrices”
Zexiang Li
Yale University
“Improving Transportability of Regression Calibration Under the Main/External Validation Study Design”
Kevin Wang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Deep Generative Models: Complexity, Dimensionality, and Approximation”
Sungtaek Son
University of Washington
“Gradient Kernel Dimension Reduction for Estimating Individualized Treatment Regimes in Observational Studies”
ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Award – Winners
Zhenyu Xu
University of Connecticut
“Nonparametric Cure Rate Estimation for Multivariate Failure Times”
Zhexiao Lin
University of California, Berkeley
“Supervised Deep Learning with Gene Annotation for Cell Classification”
Jiann-Ping Hsu Pharmaceutical & Regulatory Sciences Student Paper Award – Winner
Dr. Hsu (1947-2004), a longtime member of ICSA, was a leading biopharmaceutical researcher and consultant who mentored and trained more than sixty biostatisticians in industry, government, and academia during her career. This award was established with an endowment by Dr. Karl Peace.
Xiaojing Sun
Purdue University
“Generalized Heterogeneous Functional Model with Applications to Large-scale Mobile Health Data”
ICSA Student Paper Awards -Honorable Mentions
Elaine K.J. Chiu
University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Exact, Nonparametric Sensitivity Analysis for Observational Studies of Contingency Tables”
Wenxin Long
Pennsylvania State University
“spVelo: RNA velocity inference for multi-batch spatial transcriptomics data”
Jiawen Chen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Investigating spatial dynamics in spatial omics data with StarTrail”
Mingshuo Liu
University of California, Davis
“Generalized Independence Test for Modern Data”
About the Competition
The 2025 awards were chaired by Yuwen Gu, University of Connecticut and Lili Zhu, Moderna Inc. We thank the 26 reviewers who helped determine this year’s winners and honorable mentions:Boxiang Wang, University of Iowa
Chaoyu Yuan, Upstart Holdings, Inc
Charles Wolock, University of Pennsylvania
Dan Zhao, Servier
Daoji Li, California State University, Fullerton
Erjia Cui, University of Minnesota Fan Wu, Sanofi
Guanqun Cao, Michigan State University
Hengrui Luo, Rice University
Huiyuan Wang, University of Pennsylvania
James Xiao, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Jian Zou, Chongqing Medical University
Jing Ouyang, The University of Hong Kong
Liang Weijuan, Yale University
Lily Wang, George Manson University
Matteo Vestrucci, Berry Consultants
Peng Zhao, University of Delaware
Qihuang Zhang, McGill University
Ran Tao, Vanderbilt University
Rui Feng, University of Pennsylvania
Tracy Bergemann, Medtronic
Wenyu Gao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Yangjianchen Xu, University of Waterloo Yuan Wu, Duke University
Yuan Zhang, University of Tennessee
Zeda Li, CUNY Baruch College
See the call for entries for details about eligibility and other criteria.
The 2025 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium is supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Award DMS- 2516765. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website or during the conference are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.