The following students received financial support to attend the 2024 Conference on Statistical Practice:
Duncan
John J. Bartko Award
Garrett B. Duncan
Duncan completed his master’s program earlier this year at Brigham Young University and would like to pursue a PhD. His goal in attending CSP 2024 is to expand his depth and breadth of knowledge on mixed models, the EM algorithm, and similar methods. Writing statistical software is also something he would like to learn from others in attendance, specifically revolving around reducing back-end calculations.
Zhang
Lester R. Curtin Award
Xingruo (Summer) Zhang
Zhang will graduate in June from The University of Chicago’s PhD program. Her immediate career goal is to secure a position as a biostatistician in either a biotechnology company or clinical research institute to leverage her statistical expertise in addressing pressing issues in the clinical development process. During CSP 2024, she will present an R2 tool she developed to facilitate the interpretation of the complicated mixed-effects location scale model.
Gaffney
Lingzi Lu Memorial Award
Kristin K. Gaffney
Gaffney completed her master of public health degree with a biostatistics concentration at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health and has since been working as a master’s-level biostatistician for a pediatric clinical trials network focused on underserved populations. By attending CSP 2024, she hopes to grow her skills and increase her awareness of strategic methods, as well as meet new friends and future collaborators to turn data into real solutions for real people.
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