UBC Statistics is pleased to announce that PhD student Parham Pishrobat has been awarded the 2025 Rick White Award.
Parham is supervised by Professor William Welch and has collaborated in a hydrology application paper that appeared in
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics (2025), v 74, pp 946-968. The research involved challenging numerical optimization to attain reproducibility, and an R package was produced for sliding windows regression.
The Rick White Award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a Statistics program who demonstrate excellence in statistical science through collaboration with investigators in other disciplines on a substantial application.
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