Are you planning to submit an abstract for the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings? If so, you should know the ASA Biometrics Section is seeking applications for the 2012 David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. This award is given to a young investigator for best emerging work to be presented at the JSM. The award commemorates the late David Byar, a biostatistician who made significant contributions to the development and application of statistical methods and was esteemed as an exceptional mentor during his career at the National Cancer Institute. The winner will receive a $1,500 cash award.
2011 Byar Young Investigator Award Winner
Daniela Witten
University of Washington
“Penalized Classification using Fisher’s Linear Discriminant”
2011 Travel Award Winners
Genevera Allen
Rice University
“A Generalized Least Squares Matrix Decomposition”
Qunhua Li
University of California at Berkeley
“Measuring Reproducibility of High-Throughput Experiments”
Jessica Minnier
Harvard University
“Risk Classification with an Adaptive Naïve Bayes Kernel Machine Model”
Layla Parast
Harvard University
“Landmark Prediction of Long Term Survival Incorporating Short Term Event Time Information”
Sihai Dave Zhao
Harvard University
“Grouped Variable Selection via Hierarchical Models”
Congratulations to the award winners on their notable accomplishments!
In addition to the Byar Award, the section may provide travel awards to the authors of other outstanding papers that are submitted to the competition.
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
Applicants must submit their JSM abstracts to the Biometrics Section, which will organize a series of Topic Contributed sessions to highlight the Byar award and travel awards winners.
Applicants should complete their application by submitting the following materials:
All materials must be submitted electronically on or before December 15, 2011. Applications and questions should be sent to J. Jack Lee at jjlee@mdanderson.org.
The 2012 Awards Committee is composed of the 2012 current and past section chairs and chair-elect as well as three additional individuals to be appointed by the section chairs prior to the competition.
For the 2012 competition, the finalists of Byar Awards will be announced one week prior to the JSM abstract deadline on Feburary 1, 2012. Finalists should email the section JSM Program Chair, Timothy D. Johnson at tdjtdj@umich.edu and submit a Topic–Contributed abstract to the JSM.
Information regarding this award is also available on the section webpage.
This version corrects the original, which stated the deadline as January 1, 2012. The deadline is December 15, 2011.