The thirteenth annual Canadian Statistics Student Conference (CSSC) took place on Saturday, May 24th, 2025 at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.
The booklet for CSSC 2025, which includes all abstracts, details about our sessions, and other relevant information is available here.
Pictures of the event, taken by Mei Dong and Jingwen Ji, are available here.
Scientific Program Results
Translation Award
Students who submitted their abstracts in both English and French were entered in a random draw for a $50 prize. The winner was Yuning Wang.
The results of the competitions for presentation awards are below:
Bachelor’s - Oral Presentation
- Gavin Klorfine, The Replication Crisis: P-curves, Z-curves, and Stereotype Threat
- Louis-Pierre Ménard, The mathematical foundations of image analysis and edge detection
- Shruti Dua, Investigating the Impact of High-rise Living on Health: Introducing the National Canadian Housing Stock Datasets for Further Research
Master’s - Oral Presentation
- Jingwen Ji, Longitudinal Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Sepsis Management
- Sarah Campbell, An IRT Model-based Reliable Change Index with Empirical Priors
- Sambavi Arulnandhy, Investigating Sex and Age-related Differences in Aperiodic EEG Activity in Children with ADHD
PhD - Oral Presentation
- Victor Malinowski, Investigating the Performance of Direct and Indirect Causal Effect Estimators under Partial Interference and Structured Nearest Neighbour Interference
- Yuning Wang, Examining the Mediation Effect of Maximum Probing Pocket Depth on Tooth Loss
- Aryan Manafi Neyazi, Green Bubbles: a Noncausal Approach
Bachelor’s - Poster Presentation
- Jensen MacLean, Behavioural Change in Canadian Disease Outbreaks
- Russell Johnson and Avishek Paudel, Food Production and Nutritional Security in Bangladesh: Historical Trends and Future Projections
- Amrita Ajay Sagar, Predicting the aqueous pKa of benzimidazoles
Master’s - Poster Presentation
- Soojeong Kim, Beyond Conventional P-Values: Addressing Statistical Challenges in Big Data
- Qiyue Zhang, Development of a R Shiny App to Calibrate State Transition Models Utilizing Published Survival Curves
- Junzi Chen, Short-term Forecast of Respiratory Virus Transmission in Ontario
PhD - Poster Presentation
- Lina Li, Tide Effect on Fecal Coliform Distribution
- Yushan Hu, Automated Cell Annotation Tool from an Integrated Cell Atlas of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Healthy Control
- Lin Yu, Causal Variance Decompositions for Measuring Health Inequalities
Keynote Address
The keynote address was delivered by Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, of the University of British Columbia’s Department of Statistics. Dr. Bouchard-Côté spoke about probabilistic reasoning on modern hardware.
Career Panel
Participants had the opportunity to attend a career Q&A session featuring Alice Li (City of Saskatoon), Kuan Liu (University of Toronto) and Martin Segovia (Clara).
Scientific Workshop
Pingzhao Hu, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Western University, led a tutorial on Embedding and Fusing Multimodal Health Data for Statistical Insights.
Contact Us
For more information, please contact the SSC Student Conference organizing committee at ssc.student.conference@gmail.com.
We would also like to thank our sponsors:
