UNC Gillings School biostatistics students have won four of eight student research awards presented by the International Chinese Statistical Association and Korean International Statistic Society. Their work will be acknowledged during the 2014 Joint Applied Statistics Symposium of the two organizations, to be held June 15-18 in Portland, OR.

Winners include:

• Mr. Guanhua Chen (Drs. Michael Kosorok and Donglin Zeng, advisers), for Personalized Dose Finding Using Outcome-weighted Learning;
• Ms. Ting-Huei Chen (Drs. Wei Sun and Jason P. Fine, advisers), for Using a Structural Equation Modeling Approach with Application in Alzheimer’s Disease;
• Mr. Ran Tao (Dr. Danyu Lin, adviser), for Analysis of Sequence Data Under Multivariate Trait-Dependent Sampling; and
• Mr. Qiang Sun (Drs. Hongtu Zhu and Joseph G. Ibrahim, advisers), for Hard Thresholded Regression Via Linear Programming.

“We are very pleased and excited about the nationally-recognized, outstanding research our students are doing,” said Dr. Kosorok, W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor and chair of biostatistics, who was one of Mr. Chen’s advisers.

Other winners were from Columbia University, University of Washington, and University of Michigan.

[Photo: Ms. Ting-Huei Chen (left) and Mr. Ran Tao are two of the four Gillings School biostatistics students who won international research awards]

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