Summer 2021 Awards
FLTR: Larry Dong, Thai-Son Tang, Rose Garrett
Larry Dong (PhD, Year 1) is a 2021 Google Summer of Code Research Intern, where he is working on developing a Dirichlet Process submodule. Thai-Son Tang (PhD, Year 3) is the recipient of the 2021 Paul Corey Award for Excellence in Biostatistics, and Rose Garrett (PhD, Year 3) is the recipient of the 2021 John Hsieh Award.
Paul Corey Award Winners, DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day, May 18-19, 2021.
FLTR: (Top) Jessica Cichon, Lena Nguyen, Qiao Li
(Bottom) Katrina Hueniken, Larry Dong
1st Place: Jessica Cichon (MSc)
2nd Place: Lena Nguyen (MSc)
3rd Place: Qiao Li (MSc)
Honourable Mentions: Katrina Hueniken (MSc), Larry Dong (PhD, Year 1)
International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) 2020, July 3, 2020.
Dongyang Yang (PhD, Year 2) is one of three William’s finalists at this year’s International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) 2020 meeting, presenting her work on “Clustering of Human Microbiome Sequencing Data: A Distance-Based Unsupervised Learning Model” under the supervision of Dr. Wei Xu (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre). Her talk can be found here.
Paul Corey Award Winners, DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day, June 17-18, 2020.
FLTR: Yuan (Kris) Bian, Pai-Shan (Jason) Cheng, Boxi Lin
1st Place: Yuan (Kris) Bian (MSc, Thesis-Track)
2nd Place: Pai-Shan (Jason) Cheng (PhD, Year 2)
3rd Place: Boxi Lin (PhD, Year 1)
Honourable Mentions: Madeline Ward (UofGuelph), Linda Luu (MSc, Year 1)
Recent Student Award Winners, June 6, 2020.
FLTR: (Top) Kuan Liu, Thai-Son Tang, Rose Garrett, Alex Bushby,
(Bottom) Jerry Lin, Kaviul Khan, Michael Moon
Kuan Liu (PhD, Year 5) is the recipient of this year’s Beverly Antle Trainee Award that recognizes “excellence in research and knowledge translation for first-authored research conducted by trainees”, provided by the CHES Education Committee at The Hospital for Sick Children. Thai-Son Tang (PhD, Year 2) is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Queen Elizabeth II/Sanofi/John G FitzGerald Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology.
This year, four teams from the Biostatistics Division have both received the $3000 University of Toronto COVID-19 Student Engagement Award to fund their COVID-19 research projects. Kuan and Thai-Son, along with Rose Garrett (PhD, Year 2) and Alexandra Bushby (PhD, Year 1) will be “Using Data Visualization and Crowdsourcing Survey to study COVID-19 Testing Capacity, Protocol, and Barriers in Canada.” Jerry Lin (PhD, Year 3) and Boxi Lin (PhD, Year 1) will be conducting research on “What Causes Elevated Risk in COVID-19? Discover Exposure & Genetic Factors at Play.” Jerry, Thai-Son, Kaviul Khan (PhD, Year 3), and Michael Moon (MSc Grad, Stats PhD, Year 2) will be “Assessing the global effect of public health interventions on COVID-19 pandemic growth and unemployment.” Jianhui Gao (MSc, Year 1) is also involved with 3 other students in “Quantifying effects of community based public health measures in controlling COVID-19 epidemics: a comparative modeling study in China, Iceland, Italy and Canada.” Congratulations to our amazing students!
See also: “15 DLSPH Student-Led Projects Win U of T’s COVID-19 Student Engagement Award” (DLSPH Article)
SSC 2020 Case Study Competition, June 1, 2020.
FLTR: Shuting Lou, Michael Prashad, Ashley Mao, Amin Kharaghani.
Shuting Lou (MSc Biostatistics), Michael Prashad (MSc Biostatistics), Ashley Mao (MSc Biostatistics), and Amin Kharaghani (MSc Biostatistics), advised by Dr. Wendy Lou, received honourable mentions for the Best Student Case Study Poster award at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada on June 1, 2020 for their poster titled, “From time series models to neural networks: predicting energy usage in Ontario.” Congratulations everyone!
2020 Canadian Statistics Student Conference, May 30, 2020.
The organizing committee of the 8th Annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference.
Congratulations to Thai-Son Tang (PhD, Y2), Sudipta Saha (PhD, Y5), Michela Panarella (MSc Grad), Gengming He (PhD, Y2), and Dongyang Yang (PhD, Y2) for organizing an amazing online statistics student conference.
Photo Gallery (courtesy of Dr. Peter Macdonald)
CRDCN National Policy Challenge, Ottawa, Ontario, June 11, 2019.
Left: Kuan Liu giving a presentation at the CRDCN National Policy Challenge.
Right (FLTR): Dominika Bhatia, Shahriar Shams and Kuan Liu
Kuan Liu (PhD, Year 4), Shahriar Shams (PhD, Year 5) and Dominika Bhatia (IHPME) were one among 8 finalists invited to the CRDCN National Policy Challenge in Ottawa, ON. With an audience of policymakers and healthcare professionals, they discussed Canadian cannabis and tobacco usage by assessing the spatial distribution of cannabis and tobacco consumption in Canada.
DLSPH Student Awards Ceremony, Toronto, Ontario, June 4, 2019.
Professor Tony Panzarella (right) presenting the John Hsieh Award to Myrtha Reyna-Vargas (left).
Congratulations to MSc. Biostatistics graduate Myrtha Reyna-Vargas on being awarded the John Hsieh Award for her academic excellence and contributions to the Biostatistics student body!
Statistical Society of Canada Awards Ceremony, Calgary, Alberta, May 28, 2019.
FLTR (Left): Dongyang (Dawn) Yang, Hana Dampf, Song Pham, Zihan (Christina) Zhou. Right: Zihan (Christina) Zhou (middle) receiving her group’s award from the SSC President Dr. Robert Platt and SSC Case Study Committee Chair Dr. Pingzhao Hu.
Dongyang (Dawn) Yang (PhD), Hana Dampf (MSc), Song Pham (MSc), and Zihan (Christina) Zhou (MSc) received the Best Student Poster award at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada on May 28, 2019 for the case study topic, “Risk of Cardiovascular Disease among Osteoarthritis Patients: Exploring the Relationship in a National Health Survey.”
Courtesy of Dr. Peter McDonald
2019 SORA/TABA Annual Workshop & DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day
Jackman Law Building, Toronto, Ontario, May 3, 2019.
FLTR: Dr. Olli Saarela, Dr. Paul Corey, Lisu Zhang, Zihang Lu, and Leif Erik Lovblom.
Dr. Olli Saarela (Awards Committee Chair) and Dr. Paul Corey presenting the “Paul Corey Poster Award” to Lisu (Susie) Zhang (MSc) (First Place), Zihang Lu (PhD) (Second Place), and Leif Erik Lovblom (PhD) (Third Place) for posters based on their practicum work at the 2019 SORA/TABA Annual Workshop & DLSPH Biostatistics Research Day on May 3, 2019.
AllerGen 2019, Toronto, Ontario, January 27-30, 2019.
Zihang Lu with his award-winning poster.
Zihang Lu, a fourth year PhD Candidate under the supervision of Dr. Wendy Lou, won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the AllerGen 2019 Research Conference in Toronto, ON. His poster is titled “Early lung function changes associated with wheezing phenotypes in the CHILD Study”. Congratulations Zihang!
Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting, Halifax, Ontario, September 15, 2018.
Myrtha Reyna with her award-winning poster.
Myrtha Reyna, a MSc Biostatistics graduate under the supervision of Dr. Wendy Lou (DLSPH), won Best Poster Award at the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting. Her poster, presented under the category of Allergic Rhinitis/Asthma, was based on her thesis, “Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach for Multicriteria Decision-Making with an Application to developing an ‘Urban Greenness Index.’”
International Biometrics Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 8-13, 2018.
Kuan Liu (right) receiving her Best Student Poster Presentation award from the IBC President, Dr. Louise Ryan (left).
Biostatistics PhD candidate Kuan Liu won the Best Student Poster Presentation award at the 29th International Biometric Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Her poster is titled “Estimation of causal effects with longitudinal data in a Bayesian framework”, under the supervision of Dr. Eleanor Pullenayegum.
Statistical Society of Canada Awards Ceremony, Montréal, Québec, June 5, 2018.
Jimmy Hu (2nd on the left) and Jerry Lin (3rd on the left) receiving awards from the SSC President Dr. Hugh Chipman and the SSC Case Study Committee Chair Dr. Lisa Lix.
Yue Wang (MSc Biostatistics), Jerry Lin (PhD Biostatistics), Jimmy Hu (PhD Biostatistics), Sumeet Kalia (PhD Biostatistics), Jiayue Huang (MSc Biostatistics) and Christopher Meaney (PhD Biostatistics) received honourable mentions and second prize of the Best Student Case Study Poster award at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada on June 5, 2018 for the case study topic, “What predicts the popularity of TED Talks?”
Courtesy of Dr. Peter McDonald
Statistical Society of Canada Awards Ceremony, Montréal, Québec, June 5, 2018.
Mohsen Soltanifar (3rd on the left) receiving the award from the SSC President Dr. Hugh Chipman and the SSC Student Awards Committee Chair Dr. François Bellavance.
Mohsen Soltanifar, a PhD candidate from the DLSPH Biostatistics division under supervision of Dr. Michael Escobar (DLSPH) and joint work with Dr.Annie Dupuis (SickKids) and Dr. Russell Schachar (SickKids), has been awarded the Best Oral General Statistics Poster Presentation at 2018 Statistical Society of Canada (SSC 2018) Annual Meeting in Montreal, Québec for his poster presentation on “A Bayesian Mixture Modelling of Stop Signal Reaction Times (SSRT) Distributions.”
Courtesy of Dr. Peter McDonald
Statistical Society of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 12, 2017.
FLTR: Mitchell Sutton, Myrtha Reyna and Ruixue Dai with their award winning poster.
Mitchell Sutton (MSc Biostatistics), Myrtha Reyna (MSc Biostatistics), Ruixue Dai (MSc Biostatistics), Shubham Sharma (MSc Biostatistics), Yeva Sahakyan (MSc Biostatistics) and Xin Zheng (MSc Biostatistics) received the Best Student Poster award at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada on June 12, 2017 for the case study topic, “What is the Impact of Natural Disasters in Canada?”
Courtesy of Dr. Peter McDonald
Statistical Society of Canada, St. Catharine’s, Ontario, May 31, 2016.
FLTR: Dr. Wendy Lou, Sangook Kim, Michael Moon, Dr. Olli Saarela, Kuan Liu, Mohammad Kaviul Anam Khan.
Michael Moon (MSc Biostatistics), Mohammad Kaviul Anam Khan (MSc Biostatistics), Kuan Liu (PhD Biostatistics) and Sangook Kim (PhD Biostatistics) received the Best Student Poster award at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada on May 31, 2016 for the case study topic, “Can Google Flu Trends Predict the Frequency and Results of Tests for Influenza and Other Respiratory Illnesses?”
Statistical Society of Canada Awards Ceremony, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 16, 2015.
Junior Chang (4th from right) receiving the award from the SSC President Dr. John Petkau (1st from left) and the SSC Student Awards Committee Chair Dr. Kevin Keen (1st from right).
Junior Chang (MSc. Biostatistics), under the supervision of Dr. Wendy Lou (DLSPH), received the Best Oral Research Presentation Award at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada on May 31, 2016. His talk, presented under the “Biostatistics in Action 1” category, was based on his practicum work titled, “Impact of Ultra-Fine Particles on Childhood Development of Lung Functions, Results from Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study” at SickKids Hospital.
Courtesy of Dr. Peter McDonald
Statistical Society of Canada Awards Ceremony, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 16, 2015.
FLTR: Dr. John Petkau (SSC President), Bowen Gao, Chendi Liao, Gengming He and Wenqi Fan, Dr. Georges Monette (SSC Case Study Committee Chair)
Bowen Gao (MSc Biostatistics), Chendi Liao (MSc Biostatistics), Gengming He (MSc Biostatistics), and Wenqi Fan (MSc Biostatistics) received the Best Student Case Study Poster award at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada on June 16, 2015 for the case study topic, “Baseball Strategies.”
Courtesy of Dr. Peter McDonald
Canadian Statistics Student Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 13, 2015.
Shariar Shams (2nd from the right) receiving the Best Graduate Student Paper award from the SSC Student Conference co-presidents Nathalie Moon (first from left) and Caitlin Dals (first from right).
Shahriar Shams (PhD Biostatistics) was awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper at the 4th Statistical Society of Canada’s Student Conference for his presentation on “Comparing progression-free survival of kidney cancer patients after laparoscopic versus open surgery using different propensity score methods.”
Canadian Statistics Student Conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 26, 2014.
FLTR: Dr. Georges Monette (SSC Case Study Committee Chair), Osvaldo Espin-Garcia, Sephr Jafarpour, Kate Tsiplova, Simon Greaves, Xinyu (Shary) Zhang, Yitian Tao, Coralie Wong, Dr. Mike Evans (SSC President)
Osvaldo Espin-Garcia (PhD Biostatistics), Sephr Jafarpour (MSc Biostatistics), Kate Tsiplova (MSc Biostatistics), Simon Greaves (MSc Biostatistics), Xinyu Zhang (MSc Biostatistics), Yitian Tao (MSc Biostatistics), and Coralie Wong (MSc Biostatistics) received the Best Student Case Study Poster award at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada on May 26, 2014 for the case study topic, “The American Time Use Survey: How have economic and socio-demographic factors affected television viewing in the last decade?”
Courtesy of Dr. Peter McDonald