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2026 Student Paper Competition Finalists

Presented in the Astrostatistics Interest Group Student Paper Award session at JSM 2026.

Sun, Aug 2, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM
Room CC-209 Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center
Maximilian Autenrieth (Organizer) David van Dyk (Organizer and Chair)
Link to JSM session (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

  • A Bayesian Hierarchical Framework for Inferring the Planetary Obliquity Distribution
    • Michael Poon (University of Toronto); Co-authors: Marta Bryan (Penn State University), Hanno Rein (University of Toronto), Jiayin Dong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Joshua Speagle (University of Toronto), Dang Pham (CU Boulder)
  • A Novel Statistical Framework for Recovering Radial Velocities from Line-by-Line Spectral Data
    • Joseph Salzer (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Co-authors: Jessi Cisewski-Kehe (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Eric Ford (Pennsylvania State University), Lily L. Zhao (University of Chicago)
  • Bayesian Component Separation for DESI LAE Automated Spectroscopic Redshifts and Photometric Targeting
    • Ana Sofia Uzsoy (Harvard University)
  • CIGaRS I: Combined simulation-based inference from SNae Ia and host photometry
    • Konstantin Karchev (University of Barcelona)
  • Data-driven dust inference at mid-to-high Galactic latitudes using probabilistic machine learning
    • Matthew O'Callaghan (University of Cambridge)