11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Feature learning in kernel machines and applications to monitoring and steering LLMs Mikhail Belkin, HDSI Endowed Chair Professor in AI, Halicioglu...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Data Science Across Consumer and Community Banking at JPMorganChase Justin Martin Executive Director of Data Science PhD Harvard University (2017), MSc Brown University...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
What functions does XGBoost learn? Aditya Guntuboyina, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley Abstract: We develop a theoretical framework...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Deep Survival Learning for Kidney Transplantation: Knowledge Distillation and Data Integration Kevin He, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Director of...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Graph Neural Network Meets Random Geometric Graph Suqi Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside Abstract: Graph neural networks...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Towards the Last Mile of Artificial General Intelligence: Open-World Long-Tailed Learning in Theory and Practice Dawei Zhou, Assistant Professor, Department of...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Event Canceled Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been canceled. The department hopes to reschedule the event at a...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
How do neural networks learn features from data? Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract: The ability of...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Statistical Inference for Temporal Difference Learning with Linear Function Approximation Alessandro Rinaldo, Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, The University...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Trees against gerrymandering Moon Duchin, Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, University of Chicago Abstract: Motivated by the study of political...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Phase transitions in estimation with low-degree polynomials Youngtak Sohn, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, Brown University Abstract: High-dimensional planted problems, such as finding...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Do Large Language Models (Really) Need Statistical Foundations? Weijie Su, Associate Professor, Wharton Statistics and Data Science Department, University of Pennsylvania Abstract:...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Statistical Innovations in the Pharmaceutical Industry Dong Xi Statistical Advisor, Biostatistics, Gilead Sciences, Inc. PhD in Statistics, 2013, Northwestern University Talk 11:00 AM-12:00...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
LLM-Enhanced, Theme-Focused Science Discovery: A Retrieval and Structuring Approach Jiawei Han, Michael Aiken Chair Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Data Augmentation for Graph Regression Meng Jiang, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame Abstract: Graph regression...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Learning Multi-Index Models Ilias Diakonikolas, Sheldon B. Lubar Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison Abstract: Multi-index models (MIMs) are...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
A Bayesian semi-parametric model for functional near-infrared spectroscopy data Timothy D. Johnson, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Neural Collapse in AI Training X.Y. Han, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Abstract: In the...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
(Re)visiting Foundation Models for Science and Beyond Wei Wang, Leonard Kleinrock Professor in Computer Science and Computational Medicine, University of California,...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Foundation Models and Generative AI for Medical Imaging Segmentation in Ultra-Low Data Regimes Pengtao Xie, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering,...
8:30 AM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
3 Day Event April 4-6 ASA DataFest at Northwestern is a data analysis competition organized by the Department of Statistics and...
10:30 AM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
3 Day Event April 4-6 ASA DataFest at Northwestern is a data analysis competition organized by the Department of Statistics and...
5:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
3 Day Event April 4-6 ASA DataFest at Northwestern is a data analysis competition organized by the Department of Statistics and...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities Xiaowei Jia, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh Abstract: Data science...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Towards Data-efficient Training of Large Language Models (LLMs) Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, UCLA Abstract: High quality data is crucial...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
AI for Nature: From Science to Impact Tanya Berger-Wolf, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering and Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute, The...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Tensor Time Series: Factor Modeling and Deep Neural Networks Yuefeng Han, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics,...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
The Role of AI in Scientific Discovery: Opportunities and Limitations Xiangliang Zhang, Leonard C. Bettex Collegiate Professor of Computer Science, University...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Leveraging multi-study, multi-outcome data to improve external validity and efficiency of clinical trials for managing schizophrenia Caleb H. Miles, Assistant Professor...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Structure-driven design of reinforcement learning algorithms: a tale of two estimators Wenlong Mou, Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto Abstract:...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Quantum Computation and Statistics Yazhen Wang, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract: Quantum computation and quantum information are of great current...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Statistics Careers in the Pharmaceutical Industry Lingyun Liu Director, Biometrics Department, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Talk 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Networking Reception 12:00 PM-1:00 PM This talk aims...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Autonomous Learning: Unifying OOD Detection and Continual Learning Bing Liu, Distinguished Professor and Peter L. and Deborah K. Wexler Professor of...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Subsampling for Big Data Regression with Measurement Constraints Lin Wang, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Purdue University Abstract: Despite the availability of extensive...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
A holistic and critical look at language agents Yu Su, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
How to Detect Out-of-Distribution Data in the Wild? Sharon Y. Li, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences, University of...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Mathematics in Scientific Machine Learning Rebecca Willett, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science & the Faculty Director of AI at the...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Check: Can Dropping a Little Data Change Conclusions? Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
T-Stochastic Graphs Karl Rohe, Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract: Previous statistical approaches to hierarchical clustering for social network analysis all...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Audience Choice: Bayesian Workflow / Causal Generalization / Modeling of Sampling Weights Andrew Gelman, Department of Statistics and Department of Political...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
t-SNE and Local 1D Structures Anna Ma, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine, Department of Mathematics Abstract: Data visualization is a vital task in...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Surprises in binary linear classification Andrea Montanari, John D. and Sigrid Banks Professor in Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University Abstract: Machine learning...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Large Language Models to understand biomedical text Yuan Luo, Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Collaborative AI...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Approximate Co-sufficient Sampling with Regularization Wanrong Zhu, Final-year PhD student, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago Abstract: Goodness-of-fit (GoF) testing is ubiquitous...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
BET and BELIEF Kai Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Abstract: We study...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
From 20GB to 100TB: a journey on the metagenomic road Dr. Zhong Wang, Computational Biologist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, program head...
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Statistical Careers with Social Science Research Organizations Zachary Seeskin, PhD Senior Statistician, NORC at the University of Chicago Northwestern 2016, PhD in Statistics Talk...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Phylogenomics: Some Identifiability Results Sebastien Roch, Professor in the Department of Mathematics, affiliated with the Department of Statistics and the Theory...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Sharper Risk Bounds for Statistical Aggregation Nikita Zhivotovskiy, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley Abstract: In this talk, we...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
The unreasonable effectiveness of negative association Subhro Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Dept of Statistics and Data Science, faculty affiliate...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Sparse topic modeling via spectral decomposition and thresholding Claire Donnat, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago Abstract: By modeling documents...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
A Single level Deep Learning Approach to Solve Stackelberg Mean Field Game Problems Gökçe Dayanıklı, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Gaussian random field approximation for wide neural networks Nathan Ross, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne Abstract: It...
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
How to Prepare for a Career as an Industrial Statistician Shuguang Huang Chief Scientific Officer, Stat4ward Northwestern 2001, PhD in Statistics Talk...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
On Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Less Labeling Cost Tuo Zhao, Assistant Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems...
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
The Biotech and Pharma Job Market for Statisticians: What You Need to Know Kelvin Shi VP and Head of Biometrics, Kymera Therapeutics Northwestern...
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Statistical Optimality and Computational Tractability of ICA Ming Yuan, Professor of Statistics, Associate Director of the Data Science Institute, Columbia University Abstract:...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Minimax Problems in Reinforcement Learning Justin Romberg, Schlumberger Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract:...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
Understanding the Universality Phenomenon in High-Dimensional Estimation and Learning: Some Recent Progress Yue M. Lu, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering...
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Statistics and Data Science
The Mathematics of Privacy and Synthetic Data Thomas Strohmer, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center of Data Science and...
