PhD Students Yunshan Duan and Michael Schwob Win 2024 JSM Student Paper Competition Awards

Congratulations to Yunshan Duan and Michael Schwob (PhD students, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences) on their recent Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) Student Paper Competition awards!

Yunshan received an award from ASA's 2024 Section on Bayesian Statistical Science Student Paper Competition on her paper, “Immune Profiling among Colorectal Cancer Subtypes Using Dependent Mixture Models.” Shuai Guo, Wenyi Wang, and UT Statistics and Data Sciences Professor Peter Mueller are co-authors of the paper.

Michael Schwob received an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Section on Statistics and the Environment Student Paper Competition awards for his paper "Composite Dyadic Models for Spatio-Temporal Data."  UT Statistics and Data Sciences Professor Mevin Hooten and UT Integrative Biology and Statistics and Data Sciences Assistant Professor Vagheesh Narasimhan are co-authors.