#  PhD Student Yi Zhang Wins 2023 ASA Student Paper Competition 

 





January 25, 2023

 

 

The Department of Statistics would like to congratulate 3rd year PhD student [Yi Zhang ](/people/yi-zhang)on winning [the student paper competition ](https://community.amstat.org/socialstatisticssection/awards/cosponsored/wjs71)sponsored by the Social Statistics Section (SSS), Government Statistics Section (GSS), and Survey Research Methods Section (SRMS) of the American Statistical Association. She will be presenting [her winning paper](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arxiv.org_abs_2208.13323&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=ja-uJz6cXHuTu0eP7LkyBR-9dB17WxBpHTZKK0ZMBA4&m=ZULpxZRTmPrFjPpuG3K1FkjkSUSOJ-xuPh8eFcrT2tjUrT-AVjyfaNG2JVVTOKnm&s=MvKWJMzkEyN0mJKLWsqh0Cqbaf2fiWplctA6xD5J9Ts&e=), "Safe Policy Learning under Regression Discontinuity Designs," at the Joint Statistical Meeting from August 5th through August 10th, 2023 in Toronto ON, Canada.