Awards
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2026
| Winner’s name | Award name | Organization granting award |
|---|---|---|
| Xingran Chen | Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Dr. Nicholas Hartman | Sandy-Hassmiller Early Career Award | University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation |
| Dr. Gen Li | Named to Emerging Leaders Council | University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center |
| Dr. Xu Shi | Emerging Leader Award | Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) |
| Dr. Zhenke Wu | Named an Associate Professor of Global Public Health | University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| Dr. Peter Song | Elected as a fellow | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| Dr. Peter Song | Named Pharmacia Research Professor of Biostatistics | University of Michigan |
| Dr. Kelley Kidwell | Elected as a fellow | Society for Clinical Trials |
| Dr. Jian Kang | Elected as a fellow | Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Dr. Yi Li | Elected as a fellow | Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Dr. Donglin Zeng | Excellence in Research Award | University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| Dr. Yajuan Si | Gertrude M. Cox Award | Washington Statistical Society |
| Dr. Brady West | Named Collegiate Research Professor of Survey Methodology | University of Michigan |
| Rachel Gonzalez | Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship in Statistics Award | American Statistical Association (ASA) |
| Lingxuan Kong | Student Paper Competition Award Winner | American Statistical Association (ASA), Health Policy Statistics Section |
| Yuting Duan | Student Paper Competition Award Honorable Mention | American Statistical Association (ASA), Mental Health Statistics Section |
| Michael Sweeney | Empowering Research with AI Award | AI Institutes at Michigan (AIIM) |
| Dr. Susan Murray | Elected as a fellow | American Statistical Association (ASA) |
2025
| Winner’s name | Award name | Organization granting award |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. DuBois Bowman | Elected Vice President | American Statistical Association (ASA) |
| Dr. Fan Bu | Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award | International Society for Bayesian Analysis |
| Dr. Irina Gaynanova | Emerging Leader Award | Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) |
| Dr. Irina Gaynanova | Elected as a member | International Statistics Institute |
| Dr. Irina Gaynanova | Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award | Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS) |
| Dr. Xu Shi | Thelma and Marvin Zelen Emerging Women Leaders in Data Science Award | Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS) |
| Dr. Nicholas Hartman | Member of the inaugural 2025 Alliance "40 under 40" | Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance |
| Dr. Matthew Schipper | Research Faculty Mentor Award | U-M Office of the Vice President for Research |
| Dr. Jian Kang | Excellence in Research Award | University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| Dr. Mousumi Banerjee | Willie Hobbs Moore Achievement Award | U-M Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) |
| Abby Loe | Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship in Statistics Award | American Statistical Association (ASA) |
| Dr. Veera Baladandayuthapani | Named Jeremy M.G. Taylor Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics | University of Michigan |
| Xingran Chen | Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
2024
| Winner’s name | Award name | Organization granting award |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee | 2024 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| Dr. Xiang Zhou | 2024 Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition (MBioFAR) Award | University of Michigan Biosciences Initiative |
| Dr. Michael Elliott | 2024 Monroe G. Sirken Award in Interdisciplinary Survey Methods Research | American Statistical Association |
| Nathaniel Osher | 2024 Student Paper Award | Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SSGG) of the American Statistical Association |
| Qingzhi Liu | 2024 Student Paper Award Honorable Mention | Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association |
| Fatema Shafie Khorassani | 2024 Student Paper Award | Lifetime Data Science (LiDS) Section of the American Statistical Association |
| Chang Wang | 2024 Student Paper Award | Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association |
| Yuan Zhong | 2024 Student Paper Award | Statistics in Imaging Section of the American Statistical Association |
| Mengbing Li | 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Qinmengge Li | 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Qingzhi Liu | 2024 Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Di Wang | 2024 Biometrics Section Early Career Paper Award | American Statistical Association Biometrics Section |
| Lulu Shang | 2023-24 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
| Di Wang | 2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
| Zheng Li | 2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
| Nelsy Castro-Webb | Elizabeth M. Dusseau Scholar | U-M Center for the Education of Women+ |
| Liying Chen | 2024 ICSA Student Paper Award | International Chinese Statistical Association |
| Chang Wang | 2024 ICSA Student Paper Award | International Chinese Statistical Association |
| Zheng Li | 2024 Oral Presentation Award | Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences (MSSISS) |
| Dr. Kelley Kidwell | Faculty Recognition Award | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
2023
| Winner’s name | Award name | Organization granting award |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee | Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Jeremy Taylor | Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Lu Wang | Fellow | American Statistical Association |
| Madeline Abbott | Student Poster Award Winner | International Chinese Statistical Association |
| Liying Chen | Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) | International Chinese Statistical Association |
| Zikai Lin | Student Poster Award Winner | International Chinese Statistical Association |
| Wenchu Pan | Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) | International Chinese Statistical Association |
| Soumik Purkayastha | Student Most Outstanding Written Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Western North American Region |
| Soumik Purkayastha | Student Most Outstanding Presentation Award (Runner-up) | International Biometric Society: Western North American Region |
| Mukai Wang | Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) | International Chinese Statistical Association |
| Leyao Zhang | Student Poster Award (Honorable Mention) | International Chinese Statistical Association |
| Di Wang | Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Nicholas Hartman | First Place Winner: APHS/Stata Scholar Award | American Public Health Association: Applied Public Health Statistics Section |
| Nicholas Hartman | Student Paper Award | Joint Statistical Meetings: ASA Health Policy Statistics Section |
| Jieru Shi | Travel Award | 14th International Conference on Health Policy Statistics |
| Jieru Shi | Junior Research Paper Travel Award | American Causal Inference Conference |
| Yao Song | Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Tsung-Hung Yao | Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Brady Ryan | Doctoral Foreign Study Award | Canadian Institutes of Health Research |
| Soumik Purkayastha | Rising Star Award | U-M School of Public Health |
| Hanna Venera | Unsung Hero Award (Honorable Mention) | U-M School of Public Health |
| Mengbing Li | Poster Competition Winner | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Qinmengge Li | Poster Competition Winner | International Biometric Society: Eastern North American Region |
| Soumik Purkayastha | Predoctoral Fellowship | U-M Rackham Graduate School |
| Madeline Abbott | Best Oral Presentation Winner | Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences |
| Jieru Shi | Best Oral Presentation (Honorable Mention) | Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences |
| Kiran Kumar | Best Speed Oral Presentation (Honorable Mention) | Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences |
| Guoxuan Ma | Student Paper Award | Joint Statistical Meetings: Statistics in Imaging Section |
| Qinmengge Li | Student Paper Award | Joint Statistical Meetings: ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics |
| Bangyao Zhao | Student Paper Award | Joint Statistical Meetings: Biometrics |
| Stephen Salerno | Student Paper Award | Joint Statistical Meetings |
2022
| Winner’s name | Award name | Organization granting award |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Michael Boehnke | Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
| Dr. Tom Braun | Outstanding Teaching Award | ASA Section on Teaching Statistics to Health Sciences |
| Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee | National Academy of Medicine | National Academy of Medicine |
| Dr. Xu Shi | Outstanding Statistical Applications Award | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Peter Song | U-M School of Public Health Excellence in Research Award | University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| Dr. Matt Zawistowski | U-M School of Public Health Excellence in Teaching Award | University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| Tsung-Hung Yao | 2022 Travel Award | International Society for Bayesian Analysis |
| Rupam Bhattacharyya | 2022 Travel Award | International Society for Bayesian Analysis |
| Rupam Bhattacharyya | 2022 Student & Early Career Travel Award | American Statistical Association |
| Emily Roberts | Student Paper Award | Joint Statistical Meetings, Lifetime Data Science Section of ASA |
| Dr. Trivellore Raghunathan | 2022 ASA Monroe Sirken Award | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Veera Baladandayuthapani | Fellow | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Di Wang | LiDS 2022 Student Paper Award | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Satwik Acharyya | 2022 ASA Early Career Paper Award | American Statistical Association |
| Yuliang Xu | 2022 ASA Student Paper Award | American Statistical Association |
| Xuemei Ding | Young Investigator Award | American Statistical Association |
| Yibo Wang | ASA Student Paper Competition Winner | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee | 2022 Sarah Goddard Power Award | University of Michigan Academic Women’s Caucus |
| Zikai Lin | ENAR 2022 Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region |
| Mengtong Hu | ENAR Distinguished Student Paper | International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region |
2021
| Winner’s name | Award name | Organization granting award |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Braun | Promoting Progress in Statistics (ProPS) Award | Organization not stated in source |
| Hui Jiang | Promoting Progress in Statistics (ProPS) Award | Organization not stated in source |
| Wen Ye | Promoting Progress in Statistics (ProPS) Award | Organization not stated in source |
| Zhi He | Promoting Progress in Statistics (ProPS) Award | Organization not stated in source |
| Jiaqiang Zhu | One-Term Dissertation Fellowship | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
| Xu Shi | 2021 Precision Health Investigators Award | University of Michigan Precision Health |
| Hui Jiang | 2021 Precision Health Investigators Award | University of Michigan Precision Health |
| Lingxuan Kong | Rackham International Student Fellowship | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
| Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee | Janet L. Norwood Award | University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Biostatistics |
| Theresa Devasia | Young Investigator Award | American Statistical Association |
| Elizabeth C. Chase | Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Tom Braun | Fellow | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Jian Kang | Fellow | American Statistical Association |
| Dr. Peter Song | Fellow | Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
| Yiwang Zhou | Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
| STATCOM | 2021 SPH Community Engagement Award | University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| Dr. Roderick Little | 2022 Waksberg Award | Survey Methodology / Statistics Canada |
| Emily Roberts | Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship | University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School |
| Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee | 2021 Purdue University Distinguished Woman Scholar | Purdue University |
| Tian Gu | JSM Student Paper Award | American Statistical Association |
| Josh Weinstock | Fellowship | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
| Nick Hartman | ASA Risk Analysis Student Paper Award | American Statistical Association |
| Yuming Sun | ASA Risk Analysis Student Paper Award | American Statistical Association |
| Theresa Devasia | LiDS 2021 Student Paper Award | American Statistical Association |
| Wei Hao | ASA Young Investigator Award | American Statistical Association |
| Wenbo Wu | ASA Student Paper Award | American Statistical Association |
2020
| Winner’s name | Award name | Organization granting award |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Boss | 2021 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region |
| Kelly Speth | 2021 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region |
| Daiwei Zhang | 2021 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region |
| Rupam Bhattacharyya | Student Paper Competition | International Indian Statistical Association |
| Yi Zhao | Honorable Mentions in the MIDAS Reproducibility Challenge | MIDAS Coordination Center |
| Emily Roberts | SPH Unsung Hero Award | University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| Holly Hartman | Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship Award | American Statistical Association |
| Lan Luo | ASA Student Competition Award | American Statistical Association |
| Sarah Hanks | Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award | National Institutes of Health |
| Ming Tang | Young Investigator Award | American Statistical Association |
| Guangyu Yang | ENAR Student Paper Award | International Biometric Society, Eastern North American Region |
| Lu Xia | 2020 ASA Biometrics Section JSM Travel Award | American Statistical Association |
| Rod Little | Marvin Zelen Leadership award | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| Bhramar Mukherjee | 2020 L. Adrienne Cupples Award | Boston University School of Public Health |