Contributed Papers

ASA BIOP Student Paper Competition Awards Session

Sun, Aug 2, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM Room CC-257A Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center

Ruitao LinChair

Biopharmaceutical Section

About this session

This session showcases outstanding student research recognized by the ASA Biopharmaceutical (BIOP) Section Student Paper Competition. The session will feature full presentations by the top award winners, highlighting innovative methodological developments and impactful applications in biopharmaceutical statistics. In addition, session chair will summarize the contributions of Honorable Mention papers, reflecting the breadth, depth, and high quality of student scholarship in this year's competition. This session was jointly co-organized by ASA BIOP Student Award Committee: Drs Ruitao Lin (MD Anderson) and Yu Du (Eli Lilly) .

6 Presentations

A Cautionary Note for Borrowing External Controls in Clinical Trials

4:05 PM - 4:20 PM

Ruoyuan Qian (The Ohio State University)

Co-authors: Bo Lu (The Ohio State University)

External data borrowing matching weighting bootstrap type-I error

Communication-Efficient Topic Modeling for Identifying Ischemic Stroke Subtypes from Multi-Institutional Unstructured Clinical Notes

4:20 PM - 4:35 PM

Zhiyu (Roman) Yan (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health)

Co-authors: Rui Duan (Harvard University)

Data Integration Federated Learning Representation Learning Clinical Notes Electronic Health Records Cerebrovascular Disorders

Estimating treatment effects with competing intercurrent events in randomized controlled trials

4:35 PM - 4:50 PM

Sizhu Lu (Univ of California-Berkeley)

Co-authors: Yanyao Yi (Eli Lilly and Company), Yongming Qu (Eli Lilly and Company), Huayu Liu (Eli Lilly and Company), Ting Ye (University of Washington), Peng Ding (University of California-Berkeley)

Causal inference Clinical trial International Council for Harmonization Post-treatment variable Potential outcomes

Nonparametric Regression Discontinuity Designs with Survival Outcomes}

4:50 PM - 5:05 PM

Maximilian Schuessler (Stanford University School of Medicine)

Co-authors: Erik Sverdrup (Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University), Robert Tibshirani (Stanford University), Stefan Wager (Stanford University)

Causal inference Regression discontinuity designs Survival analysis Statistical learning Machine learning

RESOLVE-IPD: High-Fidelity IPD Reconstruction and Uncertainty-Aware Subgroup Meta-Analysis

5:05 PM - 5:20 PM

Lang Lang (Johns Hopkins University)

Co-authors: Yao Zhao, Qiuxin Gao (Johns Hopkins University), Yanxun Xu (Johns Hopkins University)

Survival Analysis Meta Analysis IPD Optimization Oncology

Robust and Data-Adaptive Integration of Nonconcurrent Data in Platform Trials via Gaussian Processes

5:20 PM - 5:35 PM

Yuhan Qian (University of Washington)

Co-authors: Yu Du (Eli Lilly and Company), Jingning Zhang (Eli Lilly and Company), Yanyao Yi (Eli Lilly and Company), patrick heagerty (University of Washington), Ting Ye (University of Washington)

Causal inference Kernel ridge regression Master protocol Nonconcurrent controls Temporal smoothness