STUDENT PAPER AWARD

2012 Student/Young Researcher Paper Competition
Previous Awardees

2012 Student/Young Researcher Paper Competition

The Section on Risk Analysis of ASA is soliciting entries for the Student/Young Researcher Paper Competition. Each year the section offers at least one student/young researcher travel award of $1000 to defray costs for attendance and presentation of their work at the Joint Statistical Meetings. This competition is open to all graduate and undergraduate students, full or part-time, attending an accredited academic program. The student must be a member of the Section on Risk Analysis or should join the section at the time of the paper submission. Young researchers who have received their PhD within the last three years are also eligible to apply. The work may be the development of new methodology in risk analysis or the application of existing risk methods in a novel way. The contribution may be a theoretical development or it may cover any of the numerous applications of risk analysis, including environmental risk, financial risk, risk to engineering structures, health risks, risks to defense and national security, etc.

Entrants should submit a completed manuscript by the closing date for the competition. There are no requirements concerning the minimum or maximum length of the manuscript, but conciseness is encouraged. Entries should be sent to Murali Haran, chair of the Student Paper Award Committee of the Risk Analysis Section, via email at mharan@stat.psu.edu. The email should include the completed manuscript as an attachment in PDF format (Word format will also be accepted, but PDF is preferred). All entries must arrive by midnight on December 15, 2011. Please include the words "Student/Young Researcher Paper Award" in the subject line of the email. Manuscripts will be judged based on relevance and interest of the subject matter, the quality of writing, and of course the quality of the research itself. Winners will be notified by January 15, 2012. The entrants are required to submit their abstract to JSM by midnight on February 1, 2012 and pay JSM registration fees at that time.

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Previous Awardees

2011

Miguel de Carvalho, Ecole Polytechnique Fe'de'rale de Lausanne,Switzerland: Spectral Density Ratio Models for Multivariate Extremes (with A. C. Davison)

Matthew Wheeler, University of North Carolina and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Bayesian Monotonic Semi-parametric Benchmark Dose Analysis (with A. John Bailer).

2010

Yan Sun was awarded $1000 as the section's Student/Young Research Paper award winner for 2010. Her manuscript was entitled "Regularization for Stationary Multivariate Time Series (with Xiaodong Lin). She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH.

2009

Ya-Hsiu Chuang, University of Pittsburgh Bayesian model averaging approach in health effect studies: Sensitivity analyses using PM10 and cardiopulmonary hospital admission in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, and simulated data (with Sati Mazumdar)

Tim van Erven, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Catching up faster by switching sooner: A prequential solution to the AIC-BIC dilemma (with Peter Gruenwald and Steven de Rooij)

2005

Afisi Segun Ismaila, McMaster University
Comparison of Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches in Modeling Risk of Preterm Birth Near the Sydney Tar Ponds, Nova Scotia, Canada (with Angelo Canty and Lehana Thabane)

Chengyong Tang, Iowa State University
Inference of Value at Risk for Dependent Financial Returns (with Song Xi Chen and Chengyong Tang)

2003

M. Brent McHenry, University of Pittsburgh
A Modified Estimator for the Cumulative Covariate Effect in Aalen's Additive Risk Model

1999

Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis, University of Minnesota
Statistical Analysis of Salmonellosis Outbreak Data