2015 David P. Byar Young Investigator Award Winners

– March 2, 2015Posted in: Awards and Competitions

Edited by Sheng Luo, Biometrics Section Publications Officer

Daniels Durante of the University of Padova was awarded the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award for his paper, “Bayesian Inference on Group Differences in Brain Networks.”

The David P. Byar Young Investigator Award is given annually to a new researcher in the Biometrics Section who presents an original manuscript at the Joint Statistical Meetings. The award commemorates David Byar, a renowned biostatistician who made significant contributions to the development and application of statistical methods during his career at the National Cancer Institute.

Through a comprehensive review process of 40 submissions, the award committee also chose the following nine travel award winners in addition to Durante:

  • Lee McDaniel of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for “Generalized Linear Models for Longitudinal Data with Biased Sampling Designs: A Sequential Offsetted Regressions Approach”
  • SungHwan Kim of the University of Pittsburgh for “Integrative Multi-Omics Clustering for Disease Subtype Discovery by Sparse Overlapping Group Lasso and Tight Clustering”
  • Yanxun Xu of Rice University for “Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation for Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Sequential Transition Times”
  • Chuan Hong of The University of Texas for “PLEMT: A Novel Pseudolikelihood-Based EM Test for Homogeneity in Generalized Exponential Tilt Mixture Models”
  • Jason Xu of the University of Washington for “Likelihood-Based Inference for Discretely Observed Birth-Death-Shift Processes, with Applications to Evolution of Mobile Genetic Elements”
  • Xiang Zhang of North Carolina State University for “Tensor Generalized Estimating Equations for Longitudinal Imaging Analysis”
  • Fangyuan Zhang of The Ohio State University for “Optimum Study Design for Detecting Imprinting and Maternal Effects Based on Partial Likelihood”
  • Xi Lu of the University of Michigan for “Comparing Treatment Policies with Assistance from the Structural Nested Mean Model”
  • Ran Tao of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for “Analysis of Sequence Data Under Multivariate Trait-Dependent Sampling”

Durante will receive a $2,000 award, and the travel award winners will each receive a $1,000 award to present their papers in two Biometrics Session–sponsored topic-contributed sessions at JSM.