Awards

• ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Scholarship Award (2025)

• ASA Pittsburgh Chapter Student of the Year (2025)

• ASA Health Policy Statistics Section Student Paper Award at JSM 2024

• Awarded paper: Bo, N., Jeong, J., Forno, E., Ding, Y. (2025). Evaluating meta-learners for analyzing treatment heterogeneity in survival outcomes: application to pediatric asthma care under COVID-19 disruption. Statistics in Medicine, 44: e10333. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10333

• Student & Early Career Travel Award of ASA Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (2024)

• Awarded presentation: Bo, N., Jeong, J., Forno, E., Ding, Y. (2025). Evaluating meta-learners for analyzing treatment heterogeneity in survival outcomes: application to pediatric asthma care under COVID-19 disruption. Statistics in Medicine, 44: e10333. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10333

• Travel Award of Statistics in the Age of AI 2024 conference

• Winner (doctoral category) of 2024 Health Disparity and Social Justice Poster Competition, University of Pittsburgh

• Awarded poster: Bo, N., Jeong, J., Forno, E., Ding, Y. (2025). Evaluating meta-learners for analyzing treatment heterogeneity in survival outcomes: application to pediatric asthma care under COVID-19 disruption. Statistics in Medicine, 44: e10333. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10333

• Poster Competition Honorable Mention Award at 2024 Biostatistics Research Day, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

• Awarded poster: Bo, N., Jeong, J., Forno, E., Ding, Y. (2025). Evaluating meta-learners for analyzing treatment heterogeneity in survival outcomes: application to pediatric asthma care under COVID-19 disruption. Statistics in Medicine, 44: e10333. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10333

• Best Oral Presentation Award at 2023 Biostatistics Research Day, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

• Awarded presentation: Bo, N., Jeong, J., Forno, E., Ding, Y. (2025). Evaluating meta-learners for analyzing treatment heterogeneity in survival outcomes: application to pediatric asthma care under COVID-19 disruption. Statistics in Medicine, 44: e10333. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.10333

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Honorable Mention Award, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, 2022-2023 Academic Year

• ASA Lifetime Data Science Section Student Paper Award at JSM 2022

• Awarded paper: Bo, N.#, Wei, Y.#, Zeng, L., Kang, C., Ding, Y. (2024) A meta-learner framework to estimate individualized treatment effects for survival outcomes. Journal of Data Science, 1-19, DOI 10.6339/24-JDS1119. (#: equal contribution)

• 2nd Prize of National Mathematical Contest in Modeling (1st Prize in Tianjin), China, 2014

• 2nd Prize of the Cross-Strait Market Survey Competition in Tianjin, China, 2013

• University scholarship in TJUFE, 2012-2014 Academic Years

• National Scholarship, China, 2012