Sho is a current PhD student jointly supervised with Zehang Li. He advanced to candidacy in 2024. He is working on development of small area estimation models that incorporate structured shrinkage and selection of random effects as well as model selection for small area estimation. He was the 2024 recipient of the Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship from the GSS/SSS sections of the ASA!

Awards

• 2024 Wray Jackson Smith Scholarship from the GSS/SSS sections of the ASA

Publications

• Kawano, S., Parker, P.A., and Li, Z.R. (2026+) On Data Thinning for Model Validation in Small Area Estimation.
• Kawano, S., Parker, P.A., and Li, Z.R. (2025) Spatially Selected and Dependent Random Effects for Small Area Estimation with Application to Rent Burden. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, qnaf063.

Conference Presentations

• “Multi-Resolution Small Area Estimation for Nested Geographies via Adaptive Spatial Shrinkage” (Topic-contributed Session) 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston, MA, USA
• “Small Area Model Validation using Data Thinning” (Topic-contributed Session) 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings, Nashville, TN, USA
• “Spatially Selected and Dependent Random Effects for Small Area Estimation with Application to Rent Burden” (Topic-contributed Session) 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings, Portland, OR, USA