SMI 2024 Winners

Name Affiliation Advisor Status Paper Title
Yueyang Shen University of Michigan Ivo D. Dinov Co-Winner Statistical foundations of invariance and equivariance in deep artificial neural network learning
James Buenfil University of Washington Eardi Lila Co-Winner Asymmetric canonical correlation analysis of Riemannian and high-dimensional data
Yixin Chen Virginia Tech Meimei Liu Winner Disentangled adversarial flow for multi-source learning
Yi Tang Chen The Ohio State University Sebastian Kurtek Runner-Up Assessment of glioblastoma multiforme tumor heterogeneity via MRI-derived shape and intensity features

SMI 2023 Winners

Name Affiliation Advisor Status Paper Title
Jialu Ran Emory University David Benkeser Winner Nonparametric motion adjustment in studies of functional connectivity alterations in autism spectrum disorder children
Yuchen Xu Cornell University David Matteson Winner Dynamic Atomic Column Detection in Transmission Electron Microscopy Videos via Ridge Estimation
Zhiling Gu Iowa State University Lily Wang Runner-Up TSSS - A Novel Triangulated Spherical Spline Smoothing for Surface-based Imaging
Yizi Zhang Columbia University David Dunson Runner-Up Motion-Invariant Variational Auto-Encoding of Brain Structural Connectomes

SMI 2022 Winners

Name Affiliation Advisor Status Paper Title
Xin Ma Emory University Suprateek Kundu Winner Multi-task Learning with High-Dimensional Noisy Images
Shiying Wang Yale Yize Zhao Winner Heterogeneity Analysis on Multi-state Brain Functional Connectivity and adolescent neurocognition
Carlos Llosa Iowa State University Ranjan Mitra Runner-Up Tensor-variate Elliptically Contoured distributions with Application to Image Learning
Zijian Zeng Rice University Marina Vannucci Runner-Up Bayesian Image-on-scalar Regression with Spatial Global-local Spike & Slab Prior
Rongqian Zhang University of Toronto Jun Young Park Runner-Up A structured multivariate approach for removal of latent batch effects

SMI 2020-2021 Winners

Name Affiliation Advisor Status Paper Title
Andrew Dilernia University of Minnesota Mark Fiecas Winner Penalized model-based clustering of fMRI
Bingkai Wang Johns Hopkins University Brian Caffo Winner Semiparametric partial common principal component analysis for covariance matrices
Qiong Wu University of Maryland Shuo Chen Winner Predicting Latent Links from Incomplete Network Data Using Exponential Random Graph Model with Outcome Misclassification

SMI 2017 Winners

Name Affiliation Advisor Status Paper Title
Joanne Beer University of Pittsburgh Rob Krafty Winner Predicting Continuous Measures from Neuroimages: Incorporating Information About Functional Networks and Spatial Structure
Ixavier Higgins Emory University Ying Guo Winner Penalized Estimation of Functional Brain Networks in the Presence of Anatomical Information
Menghan Hu North Carolina State University Ani Eloyan Winner Experimental design in longitudinal MRI analysis for multiple sclerosis
Simon Vandekar University of Pennsylvania Taki Shinohara Winner Powerful Permutation Tests for Neuroimaging using Voxel-wise Transformations