Congratulations to the Student Paper Travel Award Winners!

Date: 
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 1:15pm
  • Silvia Montagna received the ISBA World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Early Career Researchers Travel Grant for her paper titled:"Bayesian Latent Factor Regression for Functional and Longitudinal Data"
  • Fangpo Wang received the ISBA World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Early Career Researchers Travel Grant for her paper titled: "Analyzing Spatial Data using Projected Gaussian Processes"
  • Andrew Cron received the ISBA World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Early Career Researchers Travel Grant for his paper titled: "Modeling Sparse Orthogonal Matrices"
  • Tommy Leininger received the ISBA World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Early Career Researchers Travel Grant for his paper titled: "Quadratic Scaling Models for Spatial Compositional Data"
  • Fernando Bonassi received the World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Early Career Researchers Travel Grant for his paper titled: "Mixture Modeling Strategies Applied to Approximate Bayesian Computation"
  • Christopher Challis received the ISBA World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Early Career Researchers Travel Grant for his paper titled: "Bayesian Evolutionary Modeling of Protein Structures" and the JSM 2012 Travel Award from the ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) for his paper on "A Stochastic Evolutionary Model for Protein Structure Alignment and Phylogeny"
  • Debdeep Pati received the JSM 2012 Travel Award from ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) for his paper titled: Bayesian closed surface fitting through tensor products". He also received an NSF travel award for attending the NSF Workshop for High Dimensional Data at Yale University. Paper title "Posterior contraction in sparse Bayesian factor models for massive covariance matrices"
  • Anjishnu Banerjee received the ISBA World Meeting/Kyoto award (Junior Travel Award provided by NSF) and the Young Researcher Award for the YRM Meeting (to be held at Stanford University) for his paper titled "Infinite Tensor Factorization Priors" sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
  • Jared Murray received the ISBA World Meeting/Kyoto award (Junior Travel Award provided by NSF) for his paper titled: "Joint Stochastic Blockmodeling of Attributed Random Graphs"
  • Thais Paiva received the ISBA World Meeting/Kyoto award (Junior Travel Award provided by NSF) for her paper titled: "Imputation of Confidential Data Sets with Spatial Locations Using Point Process Models"