ASA Statistics Day, hosted at Washington University in St. Louis on September 19, was open to undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs from local ASA chapters and universities and included a poster competition and career panel.
The event started in Crow Hall, with opening remarks from William Acree, vice dean of interdisciplinary initiatives and innovation at Washington University in St. Louis; Bo Li, Stanley A. Sawyer Professor in Statistics and Data Science and co-director of TRIADS at Washington University in St. Louis; and Bhaskar Bhattacharya, president of the ASA St. Louis Chapter and professor and department head of statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Programming included talks from Scott Holan of the University of Missouri and US Census Bureau and Byron Yount of Mercy St. Louis. Attendees were also given the opportunity to ask questions during a career panel, moderated by PhD student Gifty Osei. The career panel featured Holan, along with Tim Huang of Google, Daphne Lew of Washington University School of Medicine, Kirk Remund of Bayer, and Subash Kashyap of Nestlé Purina North America.
The day ended with a 10-person poster competition, judged by Luke Settles of Natera, Chiyu Gu of Bayer, and Gayla Olbricht of Missouri S&T. First place went to Abhisek Banerjee of Mizzou for “Unraveling the Effects of Monetary Policy: A Combined Approach of Statistical Identification and Economic Prior Knowledge.” Second place went to Wei Li, a PhD candidate, for “Age-Mismatched Functional Network Model Limit Outcome Prediction Performance in Developing Populations.”
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