Florida Chapter of ASA
Annual Student Paper Competition
Award Winners

At each year's Chapter meeting, recognition and prizes are awarded to the best papers presented by students. This includes prizes sponsored by the Chapter as well as by individuals. One such award is the Bagui Award, given to the best student paper and presentation. This award was first given at the 2011 meeting.

2011

Bagui Award: Jordan Cuevas Florida State University
Xiaosun Lu University of South Florida
Lee Prize: Kenneth Lopiano University of Florida
Alexia Makris University of South Florida
Lindsey Bell Florida State University

2010

Kenneth Lopiano (University of Florida) and Nathan Holt (University of Florida) - 1st Place
Wenting Wang (Florida State University) and Leif Ellingson (Florida State University) - 2nd Place

2009

Mr. Vernon Lawhern (Florida State University) and Mr. Thomas Bohrmann (University of Florida)  - 1st Place
Mr. Moeti Ncube (Florida State University) and Mr. Sebastian Kurtek (Florida State University) - 2nd Place

2008

Ms. Jessica Zhen Li (University of Florida).

2007

<>Ms. Fei Tan (Florida State University) and Ms. Mahtab Marker (Florida State University) (Joint paper), and Jonathan Norton (Florida State University), and  Vivekananda Roy (University of Florida) all won first prize awards.

2006

Ms. Jianghua (Wendy) He (Florida State University) and Mr. Han Yu (Florida State University) tied for first prize

2005

Mr. Radu Herbei (Florida State University) won the first prize
Ms. Mahtab Munshi (Florida State University) and Mr. Moeti Ncube (Undergraduate Senior, University of West Florida) tied for the second prize.

2004

Sounak Chakraborty of University of Florida and Elayne Reiss of University of Central Florida

2003
Mr. Sounak Chakraborty, University of Florida

2002

Mr. Joseph Kain and Ms. Kelli Morris, University of West Florida

2001

 Mr. Yi-Chuan Zhao, Florida State University

2000

George Yanev, University of South Florida
 Empirical Bayes Estimators for Borel-Tanner Distribution

and

Shaojun Zhang, Florida State University
League Table: A Study of the Competition to Underwrite Floating Rate Debt

1999

Marc Loizeaux, Florida State University
Pose Estimation of Ground Targets