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The University of Washington Biostatistics Department was well-represented at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA).
Students, faculty, and alumni presented their work at JSM, including several UW Biostatistics students who won 2025 ASA student paper competitions and were invited to present.
Another popular event at JSM is our reception, where alumni, current students, and faculty members of both UW Biostatistics and Statistics are able to meet and network.
2025 ASA Student Paper Competition Winners & JSM Presenters
- Recent doctoral graduate Keshav Motwani received a best paper award from the Statistics in Imaging Section for his paper, "Disentangling Genetic Contributions to Human Brain Connectivity Using an Efficient Estimator of Variance Components in Multivariate Random Effects Models."
- Doctoral student Michael Hellstern received a best paper award for his paper, “Assumption-Lean Inference for Spectral Differential Network Analysis of High-Dimensional Time Series” and an honorable mention for his poster in the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section.
- Doctoral student Albert Osom received an honorable mention for his paper in the Section on Risk Analysis titled "Developing Performance-Guaranteed Biomarker Combination Rules with Integrated External Information under Practical Constraints." Osom also presented, “A general nonparametric framework for testing hypotheses about a class of function-valued parameters”
- Recent doctoral graduate Yuhan Qian received first place in the Biopharmaceutical Section for his paper, “From Estimands to Robust Inference of Treatment Effects in Platform Trials.”
- Doctoral student Yinxiang Wu received the Distinguished Student Paper Award from the Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics for his work, “A More Credible Approach to Multivariable Mendelian Randomization.”
- Doctoral student Zichun Dwight Xu received a best paper award from the Section on Nonparametric Statistics His paper, "A Unified Framework for Semiparametrically Efficient Semi-Supervised Learning,"
Other Student and Recent Graduate Presentations at JSM
- Jingyi Guan, “Assessing Topological Associations Between Immune Cell Structures in Spatial Proteomic Imaging Data”
- Rui Wang, “GMM with Many Weak Moment Conditions and Nuisance Parameters: General Theory and Applications”
- Ana Gabriela Vasconcelos, “Accounting for Spatial Correlation in Graphical Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics Data”
View a complete list of faculty, student, and alumni JSM 2025 presentations.
Alumni Reception Photo Highlights
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