Joint Sections on Statistical Computing, Graphics Announce Student Awards

The 2025 John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award goes to Adam Bartonicek of the University of Auckland (for R package Plotscaper).

The review panel for the award consisted of David Dahl, Arun Chind, Thomas Yee, Sherry Zhang, and Philip Waggoner (awards chair).

The 2025 student paper awards went to the following:

• Brian Liu, MIT, “FAST: An Optimization Framework for Fast Additive Segmentation in Transparent ML”
• Shushan Wu, University of Georgia, “Fisher Contrastive Learning: A Robust Solution to the Feature Suppression Effect”
• Xinlei Chen, University of Pittsburgh, “Federated Learning of Robust Individualized Decision Rules with Application to Heterogeneous Multi-Hospital Sepsis Population”
• Nathan Rethwisch, Iowa State University, “Interactive Visualization Framework for Forensic Bullet Comparisons”

The review panel for the student paper awards included Susan VanderPlas, Panpan Zhang, Yu Wang, Eduardo Charles, Huanjun Zhang, and Philip Waggoner (awards chair).

The student award recipients will present their work in a topic-contributed session at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings. They will also receive their certificates and cash prizes at the Section on Statistical Computing and Section on Statistical Graphics mixer.