2025 best student presentation winners (from left to right):
Sarah Croft, Tarin Eccleston, Lisa Chen (Harmonic Analytics), John Haywood (NZSA President), Siwei Zhai, Ruiting Mao and Alec van Helsdingen.
The NZSA congratulates the winners of the 2025 NZSA Best Student Presentations.
| Best student presentation (first-equal) | Sarah Croft (The University of Auckland) | Estimating abundance in small populations using pedigree reconstruction |
| Best student presentation (first-equal) | Tarin Eccleston (The University of Auckland) | Rapid Bayesian Inference of Supernovae Gravitational Waves |
| Highly commended | Alec van Helsdingen (The University of Auckland) | Modelling Under-Dispersed but Clustered Whale Cues |
| Highly commended | Ruiting Mao (The University of Auckland) | Rapid Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation on LISA Signals with Gaps using Flow Matching |
| Highly commended | Siwei Zhai (The University of Auckland) | Childhood Risk and Resilience Factors for Pasifika Youth Respiratory Health: Accounting for Attrition and Missingness |
Harmonic Analytics generously sponsored these prizes at the 2025 NZSA Conference.