Awards

For a list of potential faculty awards and nomination deadlines, browse awards.


2024


Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee Earns 2024 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Bhramar Mukherjee


Dr. Xiang Zhou Earns 2024 Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition (MBioFAR) Award from the University of Michigan Biosciences Initiative

Xiang Zhou


Dr. Michael Elliott Earns 2024 Monroe G. Sirken Award in Interdisciplinary Survey Methods Research from the American Statistical Association

Michael Elliott


Nathaniel Osher Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SSGG) of the American Statistical Association

Nathaniel Osher


Qingzhi Liu Earns 2024 Student Paper Award Honorable Mention from Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association

Qingzhi Liu


Fatema Shafie Khorassani Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from Lifetime Data Science (LiDS) Section of the American Statistical Association

Fatema Shafie Khorassani

 


Chang Wang Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association

Chang Wang


Yuan Zhong Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from Statistics in Imaging Section of the American Statistical Association

Yuan Zhong


Mengbing Li Earns 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region

Mengbing Li


Qinmengge Li Earns 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region

Qinmengge Li


Qingzhi Liu Earns 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region

Qingzhi Liu


Di Wang Earns 2024 Student Paper Award from ASA Biometrics Section Early Career Paper Award

Di Wang


Lulu Shang Earns 2023-24 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award from University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School

Lulu Shang


Di Wang Earns 2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School

Di Wang


Zheng Li Earns 2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School

Zheng Li


Nelsy Castro-Webb Earns Elizabeth M. Dusseau Scholar from U-M Center for the Education of Women+

Nelsy Castro-Webb


2023


Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee Earns Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society

Mukherjee


Dr. Jeremy Taylor Earns Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award

Taylor


Dr. Lu Wang Named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Lu Wang


Madeline Abbott Earns Student Poster Award Winner from International Chinese Statistical Association

Madeline Abbott


Liying Chen Earns Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) from International Chinese Statistical Association

Liying Chen


Zikai Lin Earns Student Poster Award Winner from International Chinese Statistical Association

Zikai Lin


Wenchu Pan Earns Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) from International Chinese Statistical Association

Wenchu Pan


Soumik Purkayastha Earns Student Most Outstanding Written Paper Award from International Biometic Society: Western North American Region

Soumik Purkayastha


Soumik Purkayastha Earns Student Most Outstanding Presentation Award (Runner-up) from International Biometic Society: Western North American Region

Soumik Purkayastha


Mukai Wang Earns Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) from International Chinese Statistical Association

Mukai Wang


Leyao Zhang Earns Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) from International Chinese Statistical Association

Leyao Zhang


Di Wang Earns Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region

Di Wang


Nicholas Hartman Earns First Place Winner: APHS/Stata Scholar Award from American Public Health Association: Applied Public Health Statistics Section

Nicholas Hartman


Nicholas Hartman Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings: ASA Health Policy Statistics Section

Nicholas Hartman


Jieru Shi Earns Travel Award from 14th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics

Jieru Shi


Jieru Shi Earns Junior Research Paper Travel Award from American Causal Inference Conference

Jieru Shi


Yao Song Earns Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region

Yao Song


Tsung-Hung Yao Earns Distinguished Student Paper Award from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region

Tsung-Hung Yao


Brady Ryan Earns Doctoral Foreign Study Award from Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Brady Ryan


Soumik Purkayastha Earns Rising Star Award from U-M School of Public Health

Soumik Purkayastha


Hanna Venera Earns Unsung Hero Award (Honorable Mention) from U-M School of Public Health

Hanna Venera


Mengbing Li Earns Poster Competition Winner from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region

Mengbing Li


Qinmengge Li Named Poster Competition Winner from International Biometic Society: Eastern North American Region

Qinmengge Li


Soumik Purkayastha Earns Predoctoral Fellowship from U-M Rackham Graduate School

Soumik Purkayastha


Madeline Abbott Earns Best Oral Presentation Winner from Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences

Madeline Abbott


Jieru Shi Earns Best Oral Presentation (Honorable Mention) from Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences

Jieru Shi


Kiran Kumar Earns Best Speed Oral Presentation (Honorable Mention) from Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences

Kiran Kumar


Guoxuan Ma Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings: Statistics in Imaging Section

Guoxuan Ma


Qinmengge Li Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings: ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics

Qinmengge Li


Bangyao Zhao Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings: Biometrics

Bangyao Zhao


Stephen Salerno Earns Student Paper Award from Joint Statistical Meetings

Stephen Salerno


2022


Dr. Michael Boehnke Earns Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award

Boehnke


Dr. Tom Braun Earns Outstanding Teaching Award from ASA Section on Teaching Statistics to Health Sciences

Braun


Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Mukherjee


Dr. Xu Shi Earns Outstanding Statistical Applications Award from ASA

Shi


Dr. Peter Song Earns U-M School of Public Health Excellence in Research Award

Song


Dr. Matt Zawistowski Earns U-M School of Public Health Excellence in Teaching Award

Zawistowski


Tsung-Hung Yao Earns 2022 Travel Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis

Tsung-Hung Yao


Rupam Bhattacharyya Earns 2022 Travel Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis

Rupam Bhattacharyya


Rupam Bhattacharyya Earns 2022 Student & Early Career Travel Award from the American Statistical Association

Rupam Bhattacharyya


Emily Roberts Earns Student Paper Award from the Joint Statistical Meetings, Lifetime Data Science Section of ASA

Emily Roberts


Dr. Trivellore Raghunathan wins 2022 ASA Monroe Sirken Award

RaghunathanBiostatistics 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)

veeraProfessor 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

Di WangPhD 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 AcharyyaDr. 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 XuYuliang 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 DingXuemei 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

yibowangYibo 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

Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee has been awarded the 2022 Sarah Goddard Power AwardNamed 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 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 HuMengtong 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

Jiaqiang ZhuThis 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

xu shiThis 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

hui jiangThis 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

LingxuanLingxuan 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 

MukherjeeDr. 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

DevasiaPhD 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. ChaseElizabeth 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

braun asaTom 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

Jian Kang fellow of the ASACongratulations 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

peter songDr. 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 

zhouPhD Candidate Yiwang Zhou was awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. 


STATCOM awarded the 2021 SPH Community Engagement Award

statcom awardBiostatistics 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.

Rod LittleDr. 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

Emily robertsPhD Candidate Emily Roberts was awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. 


Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee a 2021 Purdue University Distinguished Woman Scholar

Bhramar MukherjeeDr. 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 GuTian 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 WeinstockJosh 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 HartmanNick 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 SunYuming 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 DevasiaTheresa 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 HaoWei 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 WuWenbo 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

Jonathan BossPhD 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

Kelly Speth

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

Dawai Zhang

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 BhattacharyyaRupam 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 robertsEmily 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 HartmanHolly 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 LuoLan 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

Sarah Hanks NIHPlease 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 TangMing 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

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 Ph.D. 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 cRod Littleoveted 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

2020 L. Adrienne Cupples AwardProfessor 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!


2019

 

Jung Y. Won wins first place in APHA Student Paper Award

Jung Y. WonJung Y. Won was awarded first place in the 2019 Student Research Competition at the American Public Health Association annual meeting in Philadelphia. Each year the Applied Public Health Statistics section of APHA holds a student research competition to recognize research contributions of developing student statisticians and biostatisticians. The award was given for the best student oral presentation among the three finalists. Jung's title was "Impact of geocoding coarsening in assessing the health impact of the food environment".   Congratulations!


STATCOM members win Best Presentation Award in the Student Data Challenge

statcom awardCongratulations to STATCOM members Soumik Purakayastha, Lyna Truong, Mukai Wang, Tian Xie for winning the best presentation award in the MIDAS data challenge for JD Power group!

 

 

 


Biostatistics OJOC Graduate, Doug Armstrong receives 2019 James T. Neubacher Award

Doug ArmstrongThe James T. Neubacher Award recognizes U-M faculty, staff, students or alumni who demonstrate a commitment to making the campus welcoming and accessible to people of all abilities.  Doug Armstrong is the founder and chief executive officer of North Star Reach, a nonprofit recreation program and camping site designed to support children ages 7-17 living with chronic and life-threatening medical conditions. It operates year-round and is cost-free to campers and their families.  Congratulations!


Dr. Lili Zhao and Dr. Yajuan Si awarded Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) Grant. 

Yajuan Si and Lili Zhao were awarded the highly competitive institution-wide MIDAS sponsored Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) Grants.  Congratulations to both!


Professor Peisong Han
named John G Searle Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Peisong HanPeisong Han has been appointed as a John G Searle Assistant Professor of Biostatistics.  The award recognizes junior faculty who have made tremendous contribution to the department and to the broader profession through
their scholarship, research, teaching, mentoring and service.  Congratulations, Dr. Han!


 Professor Jeremy Taylor received ​Jerome Sacks Award 

Jeremy TaylorProfessor Jeremy Taylor was awarded the Jerome Sacks Award for Outstanding Cross-Disciplinary Research. This award recognizes sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences. Congratulations, Dr. Taylor!


 Dr. Sarah Gagliano Taliun and Dr. Lauren Beesley Precision Health Scholars Award Recipients 

Sarah Gagliano Talium and Lauren Beesley Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Sarah Gagliano Taliun and Lauren Beesley were recipients of the Precision Health Scholars Award.  Dr. Lauren Beesley's topic was "Correcting Selection Bias and Disease Status Misclassification in Electronic Health Records Research with Applications to the Michigan Genomics Initiative”.  Dr. Sarah Gagliano Taliun's topic was “Leveraging local genomic ancestry to enhance polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia in admixed individuals”. 


 Dr. Veera Baladandayuthapani recipient of 2019 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship Award

  Veera BaladandayuthapaniProfessor Veera Baladandayuthapani has been named as the recipient of the 2019 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship award, supported by the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health. Each year the lectureship is awarded to a promising statistician who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodologic research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine, and/or who has shown excellence in the teaching of biostatistics. This is a very distinguished honor in our profession. Veera will be presenting his lecture at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in September. Congratulations Dr. Baladandayuthapani!


Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee named Rogel Scholar

 Bhramar MukherjeeThe Rogel Cancer Center has named Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee as an inaugural Rogel Scholar.  The Rogel Scholars program provides a new support mechanism for exceptional faculty dedicated to achieving impact on cancer prevention, patient outcomes and quality of life.  Congratulations, Dr. Mukherjee!


 Nina Zhou received an ASA Biopharmaceutical Scholarship Award.  

Nina is one of the 3 recipients from a very competitive field of applicants.  The Biopharmaceutical Section Scholarship Award was established in 2018 by the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association to recognize notable research, academic achievement, and applied project work related to biopharmaceutical statistics.   


Dr. Yanming Li wins National Comprehensive Cancer Network Young Investigator Award

Yanming LiDr. Yanming Li's award winning proposal is entitled "Network Genome-Wide Association Studies for Early Detection of Cancers." The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Young Investigator Award (NCCN YIA) Program aims to identify and fund young investigators, who are in the early stages of their careers, with innovative ideas in improving the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of care provided to cancer patients. The program also supports clinical treatment and management (including new diagnostics and molecular markers), health systems and delivery of care, quality of life for cancer patients, and patient education.   Congratulations, Dr. Yanming Li!


Professor Alexander Tsodikov elected ASA Fellow

Alexander Tsodikov

Professor Alex Tsodikov will be honored at the award ceremony in JSM on Tuesday, July 30 in Denver. Alex's influential statistical work in risk prediction, cure models, stochastic models with impactful applications in Cancer has added to the many strengths of our department. He has served as an outstanding mentor to our graduate students and as the director of our OJOC program.  Congratulations Alex and thanks for all your contribution to Michigan Biostatistics and to the broader profession.


Marco Benedetti wins the 2019 JSM student paper competition

Marco Benedetti won the 2019 JSM student paper competition jointly sponsored by the ASA Sections on Social Statistics (SSS), Government Statistics Section (GSS) and the Section on Survey Research Methods (SSRM) with the paper "Accounting for survey design in Bayesian disaggregation of survey-based areal estimates of proportions", based on his second dissertation project.
Marco will present the paper at JSM in Denver in a topic-contributed session sponsored by the three ASA sections. Congratulations!


Candice Ammori wins a Dow Fellowship

Candice Ammori

Candice Ammori, a first Master's student wins a Dow Fellowship. The Dow Sustainability Fellows Program at the University of Michigan offers support for the development of sustainability leaders in business, government, and non-governmental organizations. The one-year master's program selects 34 exceptional graduate students from a wide range of U-M schools and colleges interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative engagement. Each master's/professional fellow participates in collaborative engagement activities and a substantial interdisciplinary team project. The cohort will begin in January 2019 and conclude in December of the same year. 


Yuan Yang, Lili Wang and Lan Luo  recipients of an ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Awards for ENAR Spring Meeting 2019

Yuan Yang, a PhD student working with Yi Li and Jian Kang, for her paper entitled "Simultaneous Selection and Inference for Varying Coefficients with Zero Regions: a Soft-thresholding Approach";  Lili Wang, a PhD student working under the supervision of Douglas Schaubel and Kevin He,  for her manuscript, "Penalized survival models for the analysis of alternating recurrent event data" and Lan Luo, a PhD student supervised by Peter Song, for  her paper entitled "Real-time Regression Analysis of Streaming Health Datasets". Congratulations to all our wonderful students!


2018


Nina Zhou won the Most Interesting Methodological Advances Poster Award

Nina Zhou, a PhD student supervised by Lu Wang, won the Most Interesting Methodological Advances Poster Award at 2018 Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) Annual Symposium. Congratulations!


Lars Fritsche receives U-M Precision Health Grant Competition 2018 Investigator Award

U-M Precision Health awarded a two-year Investigator Award to Lars Fritsche, PhD, Assistant Research Scientist in Biostatistics to support the development of precision health science, tools, and datasets with up to $300,000. Together with Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, he plans to utilize genetic and electronic health record data from the Michigan Genomics Initiative (MGI) to enable other researchers to generate new hypotheses and potentially improve disease detection and decision-making on the clinical level.


20 Biostatistics Faculty as ASA Fellows

The Department of Biostatistics has 20 ASA (American Statistical Association) Fellows, 14 of them are Core Biostatistics Faculty, impressive!  Congratulations to all fellows and to the Department of Biostatistics. 


STATCOM in NYC

Recently, Statistics in the Community (STATCOM) student leaders Timothy NeCamp (Statistics), Evan Reynolds (Biostatistics), Steve Salerno (Biostatistics), and Emily Morris (Biostatistics) traveled to New York City for the Bloomberg Data 4 Good Exchange.  They presented their paper about STATCOM explaining how sharing statistical expertise with local non-profits can benefit our entire community.
They would like to thank the School of Public Health and the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) for their support of STATCOM. Through this support, STATCOM is gearing up for a productive fall with several new student-led projects, workshops, and other volunteer opportunities aiming to benefit local community organizations through data and statistics.


Professor Mousumi Banerjee recognized with Collegiate Research Professorship

Mousumi BanerjeeMousumi Banerjee research professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, has been appointed the Anant M. Kshirsagar Collegiate Professor by the University of Michigan Office of Research, effective September 1, 2018. The renewable five-year appointment has been approved by the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan.  The Office of Research established the Collegiate Research Professorship Award to recognize members of the university's research faculty for significant scholarly contributions to their field of study. In particular, this honor recognizes Banerjee's widely recognized work on statistical methodology that have been applied to many important areas of health care and policy. Congratulations!


Professor Michael Boehnke receives the Precision Medicine World Congress Pioneer Award

Professor Michael Boehnke was awarded with the Precision Medicine World Congress Pioneer award at the Ross School of Business. The PMWC Pioneer Award is given to rare individuals who presaged the advent of personalized medicine when less evolved technology and encouragement from peers existed, but still made major advances in the field. PMWC 2018  recognized Professor Boehnke for pioneering large-scale studies identifying genetic risk in diabetes and Bipolar Disorder. Congratulations to Professor Boehnke who has been an exemplary leader and mentor in the Department of Biostatistics and beyond!


Professor Peter Song elected 2018 ASA Fellow

Professor Peter Song has been elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association. His citation is as follows: "For outstanding scholarly contributions to the theory, methods, and applications in the areas of dependent data, estimating functions, and computational statistics; for significant contributions to collaborative research in medicine and public health; for excellence in teaching and mentoring; and for dedicated service to the profession". Professor Song will be inducted as a new fellow on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at the Vancouver Convention Center during the Joint Statistical Meetings awards ceremony. Congratulations! 


STATCOM wins the Student Leadership Professional Organization of the Year Award

STATCOM has  won the University of Michigan Student Leadership Professional Organization of the Year award.  STATCOM is a student-led  organization that provides pro-bono statistical consulting for governmental and non-profit organizations, and is led from the Department of Biostatistics and the Michigan Institute for Data Science.  In the 12 years since its founding, Statcom has engaged in over 40 projects for non-profits, and now involves more than 100 students in multiple departments and schools with up to one dozen active projects at any point in time.  STATCOM's work has ranged from local health departments, to city governments, to programs for food security and the elderly, and recently has  begun to partnered with the Community Technical Assistance Collaborative at the Ginsberg Center to assist public policy students with data analysis.  In addition to providing community service, STATCOM provides an excellent opportunity for biostatistics students to practice consulting and data analysis in a real world setting.  Special thanks to STATCOM co-presidents Evan Reynolds (biostatistics) and Tim NeCamp (statistics), as well as the rest of the student leadership team ( Ina Conrado, Emily Morris, Stephen Salerno,  and Sharanya Chandran), and the faculty co-advisors Michael Elliott and Cathie Spino.


Professor Roderick Little gave the President's Invited Address at ENAR

Professor Roderick Little gave the President's Invited Address at ENAR, entitled "On Statistics, Study Design and Data Science: the Prediction and Modeling Cultures." Congratulations!


Boxian Wei receives a Thomas Chalmers Student Scholarship Winner Award

Boxian Wei, a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics has been chosen as the Thomas C. Chalmers Student Scholarship Winner from among the three finalists and a $500 USD prize for the best paper and presentation of "A Bayesian Data Analysis in a Small n Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (snSMART)" at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, May 20-23, in Portland, OR. The Thomas C. Chalmers Student Scholarship is in honor of Tom Chalmers, an American physician who played a pivotal role in the development of modern randomized clinical trials and was a founder of the Society for Clinical Trials. Congratulations!


Emily Morris won the 2018 ENAR Poster Award

Emily Morris, a PhD student in the department of Biostatistics, won the 2018 ENAR Poster Award for her work on "SurvBoost: An R package for high-dimensional variable selection in the stratified proportional hazards model via gradient boosting".  Congratulations!


Evan Reynolds has been chosen as one of two Student Leaders of the Year for the University

Evan Reynolds, a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics, in his role at Statcom President, has been chosen as one of two Student Leaders of the Year for the University. STATCOM is a student-led organization that provides pro-bono statistical consulting for governmental and non-profit organizations. Its clients generally do not have the funds to hire a professional consultant, but have information to collect or data to analyze that would help them in making more informed decisions about their operations. Congratulations!


Boxian Wei receives a Thomas C. Chalmers Student Scholarship

Boxian Wei, a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics has been chosen as one of the three finalists for the Society for Clinical Trials' 2018 Thomas C. Chalmers Student Scholarship.  Boxian was awarded funding to present "A Bayesian Data Analysis in a Small n Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (snSMART)" at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, May 20-23, in Portland, OR, where the winner will be chosen. The Thomas C. Chalmers Student Scholarship is in honor of Tom Chalmers, an American physician who played a pivotal role in the development of modern randomized clinical trials and was a founder of the Society for Clinical Trials. Congratulations!


Emily Hector won the John Van Ryzin Award for best paper

Emily Hector won the John Van Ryzin Award for best paper submitted to the ENAR 2018 Distinguished Student Paper Award Competition. The paper is on "A Distributed and Integrated Method of Moments for High-dimensional Correlated Data Analysis", and was co-authored by her advisor Professor Peter X.-K. Song. Congratulations!


2017


Tian Gu won the second place in the Michigan Datathon

Tian Gu, a PhD student at the Department of Biostatistics and her 3 teammates from UM Engineering and U of Chicago Statistics won the second place in the Michigan Datathon, hosted by Citadel LLC & Citadel Securities in partnership with Correlation One and the UM Department of Statistics on November 4th, 2017. After the 7-hour-long data analyzing competition, their report Importance Factors for Airbnb Customer Review won out of 100 teams. Congratulations!


Professor Roderick Little received the Pearson Prize

Roderick Little received the Karl Pearson Prize, International Statistical Institute (for the book Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, coauthored with Don Rubin). The Karl Pearson Prize recognizes a research contribution that has had profound influence on statistical theory, methodology, practice, or applications. The contribution must be a research article or book published within the last three decades. The prize is given biennially, at the ISI World Statistics Congress (WSC).  Congratulations!


Yilun Sun received ENAR Distinguished Paper Award

Yilun Sun, a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics received an ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award for the 2018 ENAR Spring Meeting in Atlanta, GA. This award recognizes his excellent paper entitled "Multiply Robust Estimation in Nonparametric Regression with Missing Data", which is based on the first chapter of Yilun's doctoral dissertation. Congratulations!


Professor Michael Elliott and Vincent Tan won the Section SPEED poster competition

Professor Michael Elliott and Vincent Tan, a PhD student in the Department of Biostatistics won the Survey Methods Section SPEED poster competition at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings. Congratulations!


Yanyi Song receives the award for the best qualifying exam

Yanyi Song received the "Best Performance on the Qualifying Exam" award from the Department of Biostatistics in June, 2017. Congratulations!


Professor Bhramar Mukherjee named 2017 AAAS Fellow

Bhramar Mukherjee the John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, a professor of epidemiology and of global public health at the School of Public Health, and the associate director for cancer control and population sciences at the Comprehensive Cancer Center was named 20017 AAAS fellow  for exemplary contributions to Bayesian methodology for the analysis of gene-environment interactions and data generated under case-control and outcome dependent sampling mechanisms.


Professor Roderick Little will receive the Statistician of the Year (SOY) Award

Professor Rod Little will receive the Statistician of the Year (SOY) Award presented by the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Little will be receiving this award on Oct 17th at a dinner banquet in downtown Chicago, for more information 


Professor Roderick Little receives the ASA Founders Award 

Roderick Little, Professor of Biostatistics received the ASA Founders Award. The ASA Founders Award recognizes members who have rendered distinguished service to the association (American Statistical Association).  Congratulations!


Eunjee Lee won first place winner

Eunjee Lee a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics won the First Place Winner of ASA Statistics in Imaging Section Student Paper Competition for JSM 2017 for her paper " Bayesian Low-rank Graph Regression Models for Mapping Human Connectome Data", a joint work with Professors Hongtu Zhu and  Joseph G. Ibrahim. Congratulations


Wenting Cheng won a JSM award

Wenting Cheng received the ASA Biometrics Section Travel Award (student paper award) related to her thesis for the 2017 JSM meeting. Congratulations!


Yu-Pu (Sophie) Chen ENAR Awards

Sophie Chen won the ENAR 2017 John Van Ryzin Award in addition to the ENAR 2017 Distinguished Student Paper Award. Congratulations!