This year’s David P. Byar Early Career Award goes to Aaron Hudson from the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics for the paper, “Honest Uncertainty Quantification for Infinite-Dimensional Risk Minimizers via the Restricted Gradient Test.”

Paper award winners for JSM 2021 are the following:

• Hunyong Cho from The University of North Carolina for the paper, “Multi-Stage Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Survival Outcomes with Dependent Censoring”
• Chan Park from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the paper, “Analysis of Cluster Randomized Trials of Infectious Diseases: Effect Heterogeneity, Noncompliance, and Spillover Effects”
• Kalins Banerjee from The Pennsylvania State University for the paper, “An Adaptive and Powerful Multivariate Test for Microbiome Association Analysis via Feature Selection”
• Arielle Marks-Anglin from the University of Pennsylvania for the paper, “Surrogate-Assisted Sampling for Cost-Efficient Validation of Electronic Health Record Outcomes”