#  PhD Student Lu Zhang Receives the 2022 SLDS Student Paper Award 

 





October 25, 2022

 

 

 Graduating PhD Student [Lu Zhang ](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__luzhangh.github.io_&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=ja-uJz6cXHuTu0eP7LkyBR-9dB17WxBpHTZKK0ZMBA4&m=NKhX68OSZ-WURzD-gm9YJdKGWBIMYlfaV4fO0MbKZZ0TEgTmdMhWm635OiG-1zOC&s=F5s5ZEvD7t4ifNh3Vbj8MJ0O9xx5PpnLmj8erHDuHYw&e=)won the [2022 Statistical Learning and Data Science (SLDS) Student Paper Award](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.amstat.org_slds_announcements&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=ja-uJz6cXHuTu0eP7LkyBR-9dB17WxBpHTZKK0ZMBA4&m=NKhX68OSZ-WURzD-gm9YJdKGWBIMYlfaV4fO0MbKZZ0TEgTmdMhWm635OiG-1zOC&s=nuN_y8fTf_3CBIiJvpsLb7t6CH2KHSzO7-W9dq6r9Qk&e=) for her paper entitled “[Floodgate: Inference for Model-Free Variable Importance](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arxiv.org_pdf_2007.01283.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=ja-uJz6cXHuTu0eP7LkyBR-9dB17WxBpHTZKK0ZMBA4&m=NKhX68OSZ-WURzD-gm9YJdKGWBIMYlfaV4fO0MbKZZ0TEgTmdMhWm635OiG-1zOC&s=prizc24jVt3I64wp08ROz4OYB9b4nIUVGPCH94qnDNI&e=)” and presented it at the [SLDS section in JSM 2022](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww2.amstat.org_meetings_jsm_2022_onlineprogram_ActivityDetails.cfm-3FSessionID-3D222074&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=ja-uJz6cXHuTu0eP7LkyBR-9dB17WxBpHTZKK0ZMBA4&m=NKhX68OSZ-WURzD-gm9YJdKGWBIMYlfaV4fO0MbKZZ0TEgTmdMhWm635OiG-1zOC&s=eYs7h8UaFl0kED3YIAUKA4fiHuE8O3zt-4IdYfGhd2Q&e=). This paper was co-authored with her PhD advisor, Assistant Professor [Lucas Janson](http://lucasjanson.fas.harvard.edu/), and proposes a new inferential approach called floodgate. Her slides are available on the JSM online program [page](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ww2.amstat.org_cgi-2Dbin_fileviewer.cfm-3Ffilename-3DAbstractPresentations-255Cjsm2022presentations-255C322094-252Epdf-26Outputfile-3D322094&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=ja-uJz6cXHuTu0eP7LkyBR-9dB17WxBpHTZKK0ZMBA4&m=NKhX68OSZ-WURzD-gm9YJdKGWBIMYlfaV4fO0MbKZZ0TEgTmdMhWm635OiG-1zOC&s=YvUFh20GxWpJKLVG_B2HThs0QdBwks1CjcBPsTJKX2I&e=). Floodgate can leverage any working regression function chosen by the user to construct asymptotic confidence bounds, and it applies to a model-free measure of variable importance called the minimum mean squared error gap.

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