Xinran Li, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
For his significant contributions in the areas of causal inference, observational studies, general statistical theory and methods, and for his novel research on rerandomization in randomized experiments.
Linbo Wang, Ph.D., University of Toronto
For outstanding research in causal inference, notably in instrumental variable estimation,
variable selection, and identification of causal effects; for innovative developments in
categorical data analysis; and for important contributions to biomedical data analysis and
personalized medicine.