SMI 2026 Winners

Name Affiliation Advisor Status Paper Title
Yuzi Mi University of Minnesota Lin Zhang and Joe koopmeiners Winner Bayesian Functional Spatial Partitioning for Boundary Surface Lesion Detection Using 3D MRI
Zhengyao Ye University of Maryland Shuo Chen Winner Graph Guided Polygenic-Pleiotropic Architecture Analysis for Imaging-Genetic Data
Noah Hillman University of Pennsylvania Russell Shinohara and Haochang Shou Runner-Up Testing for Network Sparsity in Brain-Behavior Associations Using Ordinal Dominance Curves
Guoxuan Ma University of Michigan Jian Kang Runner-Up Sparse Bayesian Modeling of EEG Channel Interactions Improves P300 Brain-Computer Interface Performance