Chaitra H. Nagaraja
The ASA’s Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee has sponsored the Statistical Significance poster competition at JSM each year since 2009. At the 2024 conference in Portland, Oregon, there were 39 participants. Each candidate submitted a one-page piece describing the impact of their research on society and presented their research—judged by SPAAC members—at a poster session during the conference.
The winner of the 2024 competition was Kazeem Kareem from Michigan Technological University. He received a $300 prize for his project, “Statistics Powers Medical Diagnosis: Disease Detection Using Clustering and Image Segmentation.” This project focuses on using statistical methods to detect tumors. Kareem is currently a PhD candidate in statistics with a background in mathematics from the University of Lagos and Michigan Technological University. He is interested in developing algorithms for simultaneously clustering high-dimensional data.
In addition to the winner, there were two honorable mentions: Nathan Meyer from South Dakota State University for “Statistics Impact Healthcare: Mixture Cure Models for End-Stage Kidney Disease” and Jiayi Shen from the University of Southern California for “Statistics Powers Healthcare Through Genetics Research.”
This year’s competition will be held at JSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
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