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Graduate Student Awards


Recent Achievements

  • December 2022

    Congratulations to Dr. Shu (Joy) Jiang who was named in the Forbes Top 30 Under 30 North America (2023) for Healthcare!

    Read more about the Forbes Top 30 Under 30 North America (2023) recipients here.


  • August 2022

    Congratulations to Dr. Fangya Mao for being recognized with a Student Conference Award at the 43rd Annual Conference of the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) in Newcastle, UK. Fangya's presentation on "Spatial Dependence Modeling of Latent Susceptibility and Time to Joint Damage in Psoriatic Arthritis" on August 23, 2022 involved the use of mixture models for fitting clustered failure time processes under intermittent observation.

    Learn more about the ISCB 43th Annual Conference Meeting here.


  • June 2022

    Dr. Shu (Joy) Jiang has been named as one of the inaugural 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst Award recipients. The Boston Congress of Public Health recognized these 40 individuals as representatives of the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, activists, intellectual provocateurs, authors, and directors who inspire and catalyze a more just and equitable world.

    Joy was excited to be recognized, saying, "I'm extremely honoured to have received the award this year. This is a huge recognition for my work on bridging statistical methods with breast cancer research and big support to advancing method developments in women’s health. I look forward to leveraging this platform to develop and disseminate innovative and rigorous statistical methods leading to new pathways that can be targeted in breast cancer prevention and intervention trials to expand capacity for precision prevention."

    Read more about the 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst Award recipients here.



Pierre-Robillard Award Winners


2016 Yujie Zhong
2014 Liqun Diao
2009 Baojiang Chen
1998 Edmund Ng

ISCB Student Conference Award Winners

  • The Student Conference Award is awarded to registered postgraduate students to attend the Annual Conference of the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) and to present a paper.

2022 Fangya Mao
Presentation Title: Spatial dependence modeling of latent susceptibility and time to joint damage in psoriatic arthritis
2015 Yujie Zhong
Presentation Title: Analysis of censored family data from response-biased samples via augmented composite likelihood
2013 Audrey Boruvka
Presentation Title: Semiparametric estimation of progression-related endpoints in clinical trials with intermittent assessment of progression

ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award

  • The Distinguished Student Paper Award is awarded to assist students in presenting contributed papers at the ENAR Spring Meeting each year.

2008 Baojiang Chen
Presentation Title: Likelihood analysis of joint marginal and conditional models for longitudinal categorical data

Sprott Scholarship Winners

  • The Sprott Scholarship is awarded to the best PhD Thesis Proposal in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo.

2022 Alexandra Bühler
2020 Fangya Mao
2015 Nathalie Moon
2013 Yujie Zhong
2007 Baojiang Chen
2003 Leilei Zeng
2000 Bingshu (Eric) Chen
1997 Edmund Ng
 
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