Winners

2026 Winners

Best Statistical Analysis

“From Patterns to Prevention: How Social Determinants Shape Type 2 Diabetes Care Pathways” by Eric Hu, Ruitong Liu, Mia Zhou, and Gloria Yang.

Their customer risk model particularly stood out to the judges as providing a potential for large eﬀiciency improvement and overall improved customer outcomes.

Best Insight

“Financial Friction: Markov Analysis of Patient Journeys” by Kat Craig and Sam Adamczeski.

Judges were impressed by actionable insights that could help improve customer outcomes for those under financial stress. Their insights were based on specific real life examples.

Best Visualizations

“Tracing the Last Mile” by Jovid Jumaev, Long Nguyen, Pratik Shrestha, and Tram Le.

Judges were impressed by their Sankey plot that detailed the customer journey for sepsis patients, noting this was the best visualization for a customer’s journey they saw and helped to convey their overall story about quick diagnosis.

Best Use of Outside Data

“Can income predict the rate of chronic disease per county?” by Lucy Liu, Kaya Li, Sathvika Kommera, and Liam Kiley.

Judges were impressed by this group’s use of income data from the census which helped them to analyze how economic situation affected customers.

Judges’ Pick

Project recognized by the judges for outstanding achievement outside of the core award categories.

“The Sepsis Burden: Geographic and Social Disparities represented in Stormont Vail Health” by Tien Thai, Claire Peng, Kaixiang Loke, and Lola Liu.

Judges were impressed by insights surrounding Sepsis cases and their prevalence being related to socio-economic status as seen by interpretation of the random-forest model.

Honorable mention

“Healthcare Utilization & Social Determinants: Trends in ED Use, Admissions, & Length of Stay” by Hyunjin Lee, Liane Ma, Cooper Ruffing, and Amy Xu.

Judges appreciated actionable insights based on regressions that tied length of stay and repeat visits to socioeconomic factors and barriers to health care providers.

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