Very proud mentor moment today at #ENAR2026.
Yesterday, my PhD co-advisee Yiqiao Jin presented his work on Federated R-Learner for Estimating Conditional Average Treatment Effects across Heterogeneous Datasets. His work receives the #ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award. This is a highly competitive award, with 186 submissions and only 21 papers selected this year.
As a junior faculty member, moments like this are deeply meaningful. One of the most rewarding parts of academia is watching students grow into confident researchers and seeing their work recognized by the community.
I’m very grateful to Nan Lin, Yiqiao’s co-mentor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science, for the fantastic collaboration and mentorship. I also want to thank both the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the WashU Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB) for creating such a collaborative research environment where interdisciplinary ideas like this can grow.
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