Congratulations to Saksham Jain, a PhD student in the Department of Statistics, for being selected as a winner for the 2026 NESS Student Research Award. The NESS Student Research Award is designed to encourage and recognize high-quality research by students in statistics and related fields. Winners are selected by the NESS Student Research Award committee based on overall quality of the submitted research paper.
The title of Saksham’s paper is “Conditional Distributional Treatment Effects: Doubly Robust Estimation and Testing” and he was advised by Affiliate Professor Alex Luedtke (second author). [2603.16829] Conditional Distributional Treatment Effects: Doubly Robust Estimation and Testing
The award highlights the contributions of the students who are the first authors of their work and have not previously won the award. Award winners are acknowledged at the NESS Symposium, and winners receive a plaque in honor of their accomplishments.