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Wyndham University CenterApril 16, 2019

ASA Pittsburgh Chapter2019 Spring Banquet

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Social Media

• Chapter websitehttps://amstatpgh.com/

• Chapter twitter account@AmStatPgh

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Chapter Website

• https://amstatpgh.com/ If you have announcements to post, feel free to submit them directly to the website.

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Chapter Twitter Account @AmStatPgh

Tweets out announcement and job postings

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In Memory

our fiends lost in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on October 27, 2018

• Joyce Fienberg (75)

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Announcement

The Stephen and Joyce Fienberg Memorial Lecture

• 4 – 5:30pm, April 22, 2019McConomy Auditorium, Jared L. Cohon University Center at CMU

• A reception will follow in the Teresa Heinz Rotunda, Hamburg Hall (4800 Forbes Ave)

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Announcement

2019 Conference on Lifetime Data Science:Foundations and Frontiers

• May 29–31, 2019University of Pittsburgh (Registration for the conference is now open!)

• Keynote speeches include– Odd O. Aalen, Causal inference for survival data, with emphasis on mediation analysis– Ross Prentice, Regression models and multivariate life tables– Danyu Lin, Semiparametric regression analysis of interval‐censored data

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Keynote Speaker

Wendy L. Martinez, PhD• Director, Mathematical Statistics Research Center,                  Bureau of Labor Statistics

• President‐Elect, American Statistical Association

• Fellow, American Statistical Association• Member, International Statistical Institute• Recipient, 2017 Founders Award, American Statistical Association

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Chapter Year in Review

Fall Mixer• November 2018 (Library Room, University Club)• Representatives from Pitt, CMU, UPMC, RAND in attendance

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Chapter Year in Review

Joel GreenhouseStatistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University

• 2019 Robert E. Doherty Award for Sustained Contributions To Excellence in Education

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Chapter Year in Review

Tim Coleman, Ryan Kelly, Wei PengDepartment of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh• Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship

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Chapter Year in Review

Xing GaoDepartment of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh• Whittington Dissertation Fellowship

Rong ZhangDepartment of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh• ENAR 2019 RAB Poster Award

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Chapter Year in Review

George TsengDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

• 2019 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring

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Chapter Year in Review

Yujia Li, Tao Sun, Zhe SunDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh• 2019 ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award 

Peng LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh• 2019 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Distinguished Student Paper Award 

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Chapter Year in Review

Tao SunDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh• 2019 ICSA Student Paper Award

Yue WeiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh• 2019 Lifetime Data Science (LiDS) Student Paper Award 

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Chapter Year in Review

Marie Tuft, Shu Wang, Jerry Zhang, Jun ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh• 2019 Student Research Day Presentation Awards

Di ZhangDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh• 2019 Biostatistics Department Outstanding Student Award

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Chapter Year in Review

Joanne BeerDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh• 2019 Delta Omega Dissertation Award

Shu WangDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh• Inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society

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Student of the Year Awards

Natalie KleinStatistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University

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Student of the Year Awards

Rong ZhangDepartment of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh

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Student of the Year Awards

Tao SunDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

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Poster Session

• Thanks to all student poster presenters

– Tim Coleman Terry Ding Taehee Jung– Nicholas Kissel Huang Lin Wei Peng– Justin Petrovich Tao Sun Shu Wang– Xiangling Wang Xinjun Wang Yue Wei– Siyu Zhou

• Thanks to our judges– Jeanine Buchanich Yu Cheng Yongseok Park Lu Tang

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Mihaela Serban Award

Awarded to best poster presenter

Yue WeiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

Title: A Simultaneous Inference Procedure to Identify Subgroups in Targeted Therapy Development with Time‐to‐event Outcomes

Mihaela Serban

Note: Tim Coleman from the Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh received the honorable mentioned of his work entitled “Importance Forest: A Semi-Supervised Solution to Forecasting Outages During a Hundred Year Storm.”

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Statistician of the Year

Shyamal D. Peddada, PhDDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

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Spring Banquet

• Special thanks to the departments with generous donation– Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University

– Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh

– Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

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Spring Banquet

• Special thanks to the board who helped with the planning– Past President: Andrew Althouse (Pitt Medicine)– President‐elect: Amelia Haviland (CMU Stats/RAND)– Chapter representative: Kaleab Abebe (Pitt Medicine)– Treasure: Yongseok Park (Pitt Biostatistics)– Student Representatives:

• Kayla Frisoli (CMU Statistics)• Camden Wang (Pitt Statistics)• Tao Sun (Pitt Biostatistics

– Webmaster:  Maria Jahja (CMU Statistics)

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Chapter Election

• Please fill out the chapter election form• President‐Elect

– Please nominate yourself or your colleagues

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THANKYOU

FOR COMING!