JSM 2008 SBSS Student Paper Competition Winners:

• Sourish Das, University of Connecticut
• Jairo Fuquene, University of Puerto Rico
• Joyee Ghosh, Duke University
• Xuanyao He, University of North Carolina
• Kristin Lennox, Texas A&M University
• Melanie Wilson, Duke University
• Xiaoxi Zhang, University of Michigan Biostatistics
• Hongxiao Zhu, Rice University

CONGRATULATIONS! The winners will each receive a certificate and partial travel support to attend the meeting. THANKS to the 2008 Student Award Selection Committee members:

Dipak Dey, U. of Connecticut
Peter Hoff, U. of Washington
Joe Hogan, Brown University
Herbie Lee, U of California Santa Cruz
Mike Daniels, U. of Florida (Committee Chair)

JSM 2007 SBSS Student Paper Competition Winners:

• Wei Chen, University of Michigan "Bayesian Variable Selection with Joint Modeling of Categorical and Survival Outcomes: An Appplication to Individualizing Chemotherapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer"
• Yeonseung Chung, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The Local Dirichlet Process"
• Feng Guo, University of Connecticut "On Detecting Stabilizing or Divergent Selection Using Patterns of Variation at SNP Loci"
• Joo Yeon Lee, Brown University "Expert Opinion, Informative Priors and Sensitivity Analysis for Longitudinal Binary Data with Informative Dropout"
• Natesh Pillai, Duke University "Characterizing the Function Space for Beyesian Kernal Models"
• Abel Rodriguez, Duke University "The Nested Dirichlet Process"
• Christian Röver, University of Auckland "Coherent Bayesian Inference on Compact Binary Inspirals Using a Network of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors"
• Shiling Ruan, Ohio State University "The Dependent Poisson Race Model and Modeling Dependence in Conjoint Choice Experiments"
• Donatello Telesca, University of Washington "Bayesian Hierarchical Self-Modeling Warping Regression"
• Anton Westveld, University of Washington "A Bayesian Mixed Effect Model for Longitudinal Social Network Data"

CONGRATULATIONS! The winners will each receive a certificate and partial travel support to attend the meeting. THANKS to the 2007 Student Award Selection Committee members:

Mike Daniels (University of Florida)
Christopher Hans (Ohio State University)
Athanasios Kottas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Aleksandra Slavkovic (Pennsylvania State University)
Dalene Stangl (Duke University)
David van Dyk (University of California, Irvine)

JSM 2006 SBSS Student Paper Competition Winners:

• Kristen M. Foley, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, "A multivariate spatial model for hurricane surface wind fields to improve coastal ocean prediction"
• Lovely Goyal, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, "Statistical Inference for Non-linear Models involving Ordinary Differential Equations"
• Antonello Loddo, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Bayesian Selection of Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Models"
• Taeyoung Park, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, "E fficient Gibbs Sampling Techniques via Functional Incompatibility"
• Babak Shahbaba, Department of Public Health Sciences, Biostatistics, University of Toronto, "Improving Classification When a Class Hierarchy is Available Using a Hierarchy-Based Prior"
• Meihua Wang, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, "An adaptive Bayesian approach to jointly modeling response and toxicity in phase I dose-finding trials"
• Gentry White, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, "Bayesian Spatio-temporal Smoothing of Cancer Mortality Rates, Missouri 1969-2001"
• Haiyan Wu, Department of Biostatistics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, "Hierarchical State Space Model for Microarray Short Time Course Experiments"
• Qingzhao Yu, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, "Bayesian Synthesis"
• Yan Zheng, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, "Normalization of microarrays in transcription inhibition experiments"

2005 SBSS Student Paper Competition Winners

with Steve MacEachern, program chair-elect for SBSS.
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural student paper competition:

• Ulysses Diva, University of Connecticut, "Modeling spatially correlated survival data for individuals with multiple cancers"
• Shu Han, Rice University, "Bayesian applications on budget impact analysis in economic evaluations"
• Sinae Kim, Texas A & M University, "Variable selection in clustering via Dirichlet process mixture models"
• Bin Li, The Ohio State University, "Regularized optimization in statistical learning: a Bayesian perspective"
• Rongheng Lin, Johns Hopkins University, "Ranking USRDS provider-specific SMRs from 1998-2001"
• Daniel M. Merl, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Detecting patterns of natural selection in DNA sequences using Bayesian generalized linear models"
• Michael L. Pennell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Bayesian semiparametric dynamic frailty models for multiple event time data"
• Shubhankar Ray, Texas A & M University, "Functional clustering by Bayesian wavelet methods"
• Duchwan Ryu, Texas A & M University, "Bayesian regression in longitudinal studies with outcome-dependent follow-up"
• Jing Zhao, Merck Research Laboratories, "Exploratory Bayesian model selection for high-order SNP-phenotype associations"