Congratulations to the 42 students who participated in the 2024 WNAR Student Award Competition, and to our winners of the written paper and oral presentations:

WINNERS PAPER AWARD

Leah Andrews, University of Washington, “Semiparametric Methods for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Regimens in Test-Negative Designs”

Navneet Hakhu, University of California Irvine, “Censoring-Robust Estimation in Time-to-Event Clinical Trials with Adaptive Randomization”

Robin Liu, University of California Santa Barbara, “Natural Covariate-adjusted Gaussian Graphical Regression”

 

WINNER PRESENTATION AWARD

Evan Sidrow, University of British Columbia, “Stochastic Optimization for Efficient Inference in Ecological Hidden Markov Models”

The students were honored at the banquet at the 2024 WNAR Annual Meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado. All WNAR participants received travel awards, and winners received additional monetary awards and certificates. We give special thanks to the chair of the student paper competition, Kayleigh Keller, Colorado State University, and the judges on the committee who read papers and observed oral presentations: 

Alejandra Benitez, Genentech

Shizhe Chen, University of California Davis

Juna Goo, Boise State University

Yawen Guan, Colorado State University

Ning Hao, University of Arizona

Yuan Jiang, Oregon State University

Alex Kaizer, Colorado School of Public Health

Matt Koslovsky, Colorado State University

Esra Kurum, University of California Riverside

Yiwen Liu, University of Arizona

Camille Moore, National Jewish Hospital

Tianyu Pan, Stanford University

Matteo Sesia, University of Southern California

Nicky Wakim, Oregon Health and Science University

Tianying Wang, Colorado State Univeristy

Yue Wang, Colorado School of Public Health

Brian Williamson, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Shangyuan Ye, Oregon Health and Science University

Fan Xia, University of California San Francisco

Please encourage your students to participate in the competition in 2025! Abstracts and papers will be due in the late winter. More information can be found on the Student Paper Award website.