IAOS members attending the 2025 WSC are strongly encouraged to attend the Special Invited Paper Session: IAOS Young Statisticians Prize session, Monday, 6 October, 2025 9.20 – 10.30 am. This session features three presentations from the 2023, 2024 & 2025 IAOS Young Statisticians Prize (YSP) winners:

2023 winner: Ms Joanne Yoon (Statistics Canada): “Classifying Respondent Comments from the 2021 Canadian Census of Population using Machine Learning Methods”


2024 winner: Ms. Manel Sloken, Mr. Jel Vankan and Mr. Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands): “From COACH to COACH+: Automating Output Checking with Human-in-the-Loop”

2025 winner: Mr Hanan Ather (Statistics Canada): “LLM-Assisted Record Linkage: Framework for Record Linkage in Official Statistics”
Come along and hear 3 prize winning papers, from our future official statisticians.