Kexin Xie and Anna Flowers

๐—”๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฎ ๐—ฅ. ๐—™๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ and ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ซ๐—ถ๐—ฒ have been selected as winners of the ASA SPES & Q&P Student Paper Competition. Annaโ€™s paper is titled โ€œ๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜‘๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด,โ€ and Kexinโ€™s paper is โ€œ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ช-๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜Œ๐˜ง๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜Ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜“๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ด.โ€ Both will present their work at JSM this year.

Andrew Cooper

๐—”๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ has won the ASA Section on Defense and National Security Student Paper Competition for his paper โ€œ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜บ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜‹๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ข,โ€ in collaboration with researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He will be presenting this work at DATAWorks 2026.

Virginia Tech Statistics

๐—๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ ๐—š๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐—น has won the ASA Section on Risk Analysis Student Paper Competition for his paper โ€œ๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜Š๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ˆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜“๐˜ˆ๐˜š๐˜š๐˜– ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜›๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜›๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด.โ€ He will present this work at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM 2026).