Results of the 2025 Master’s Thesis Competition

Tina STEENVOORDEN
Tina STEENVOORDEN • 8 January 2025

The winners of the 2025 Master’s´´ Thesis Competition (MTC) edition are:

  • Solichatus Zahroh (Utrecht University)
    Predicting Travel Purpose in a Smartphone-Based Travel Survey
  • Elena Viti (University of Pisa, University of Trier)
    Methods for integrating survey data and big non-survey data
  • Alessio Crisafulli Carpani (University of Bologna)
    Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Synthetic Data Creation with Deep Generative Models
  • Lotte Mensink (Utrecht University)
    Efficiently Selecting Representative Audit Samples
  • Juliana Machado (University of Porto)
    New Challenges in Official Statistics: Big Data Analytics and Multi-level Product Classification of Web Scraped Data
  • Jacob Westlund (Leiden University)
    Regularizing Probability Sample Estimates Through an Angle-Based Similarity Approach

Both the number and quality of submissions received by the MTC call deadline in mid-October were very high in this edition of the competition. Overall, we received 21 submissions from 13 universities across 8 countries. The evaluation committee consisted of the members of the EMOS Board who evaluated the submitted abstracts according to the criteria specified in the Call for Submission

The 6 winners have been invited to present their work at the conference New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS), taking place between 11 and 13 March 2025 in Brussels. The authors of the top three theses have been invited to present their work in a dedicated EMOS award session on 13 March, and the authors of the three second-best theses have been invited to present their work in a poster session on the same day. Members of the EMOS community are welcome to attend these sessions. More information can be found in the NTTS programme

The EMOS Secretariat thanks all participants of the Master’s Thesis Competition and congratulates the winners.
 

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