Awards & Grants
Student Paper Awards and Travel Grants
To encourage student members of ICSA to participate and to share their research at the Symposium, ICSA will offer Student Paper Awards and Travel Grants for outstanding student papers. Please be advised that the deadline for the Student Paper Award Application is April 1, 2021.
Award Information
Eligibility
The applicant must be an ICSA member at the time of manuscript submission, a doctoral degree candidate in any term during the academic year of 2020-2021 at an accredited institution, and be able to register and present the research work at the 2021 Applied Statistics Symposium. The paper must not have been published or accepted for publication at the time of submission.
Available Awards
Up to six student award winners (five Student Travel Awards, one Jiann-Ping Hsu Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Sciences Student Paper Award) will be selected. Each winner will receive a plaque or certificate, a cash award of $550, and free registration for a short course. Winners will be announced by May 31, 2021.
Manuscript
The required manuscript should be prepared double spaced using Biometrics or JASA guidelines for authors. Excluding tables and figures, the manuscript must be no more than 20 pages, with at least one-inch for all margins and no smaller than 12-point font. The research work must be relevant to applications in a variety of fields including biomedicine, finance, business, etc. The manuscript may be co-authored with a faculty advisor and/or a small number of collaborators, but the student must be the leading author.
Submission of Manuscript
The manuscript should be received no later than April 1, 2021. The submission should include:
- A cover letter;
- A separate page of title and abstract with author(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers and email address;
- A blind copy of the manuscripts (with title and abstract) without author information or affiliation;
- A copy of the ICSA membership application form for non-members. (Membership application/renew forms can be found from http://www.icsa.org).
All materials should be packaged into one zip file and sent by email to ICSA Student Award Committee at awardstudent2021sym@icsa.org with subject as “2021 ICSA student paper submission – [student name]”.
Withdrawal and Disqualification
- Applicants are free to withdraw their submissions at any time.
- If the same paper is also submitted to other competitions and wins other award(s) before the ICSA announces the winners for the symposium, the student should notify the committee immediately. The committee may then ask the student to withdraw the paper.
- The students who submit for the student paper competition can also submit to the poster competition with the same paper. However, students who win the student paper award will not be considered for the poster award. Students can still present the paper as a poster if they win the student paper award and will be invited to give a brief oral presentation of the paper.
Review and Selection
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Members of the Student Award Committee will review the received manuscript(s) based on the following criteria:
- The manuscript should be well motivated by an application to the specific field(s);
- The methodology developed should be applicable to the motivating problem. Inclusion of an application to a practical study will be favorably considered.
- Organization and clarity of the presentation will be considered as well.
Committee
For any questions, please contact the Student Paper Competition Committee Chair: Lu Mao, University of Wisconsin (lmao@biostat.wisc.edu)