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An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Check: Can Dropping a Little Data Change Conclusions? Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and...
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T-Stochastic Graphs Karl Rohe, Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract: Previous statistical approaches to hierarchical clustering for social network analysis all...
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Audience Choice: Bayesian Workflow / Causal Generalization / Modeling of Sampling Weights Andrew Gelman, Department of Statistics and Department of Political...
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t-SNE and Local 1D Structures Anna Ma, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine, Department of Mathematics Abstract: Data visualization is a vital task in...
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Surprises in binary linear classification Andrea Montanari, John D. and Sigrid Banks Professor in Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University Abstract: Machine learning...
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Large Language Models to understand biomedical text Yuan Luo, Director, Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Center for Collaborative AI...
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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...
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BET and BELIEF Kai Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Abstract: We study...
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From 20GB to 100TB: a journey on the metagenomic road Dr. Zhong Wang, Computational Biologist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, program head...
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Statistical Careers with Social Science Research Organizations Zachary Seeskin, PhD Senior Statistician, NORC at the University of Chicago Northwestern 2016, PhD in Statistics Talk...
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Phylogenomics: Some Identifiability Results Sebastien Roch, Professor in the Department of Mathematics, affiliated with the Department of Statistics and the Theory...
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Sharper Risk Bounds for Statistical Aggregation Nikita Zhivotovskiy, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley Abstract: In this talk, we...
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The unreasonable effectiveness of negative association Subhro Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Dept of Statistics and Data Science, faculty affiliate...
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Sparse topic modeling via spectral decomposition and thresholding Claire Donnat, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago Abstract: By modeling documents...
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A Single level Deep Learning Approach to Solve Stackelberg Mean Field Game Problems Gökçe Dayanıklı, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University...
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Gaussian random field approximation for wide neural networks Nathan Ross, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne Abstract: It...
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How to Prepare for a Career as an Industrial Statistician Shuguang Huang Chief Scientific Officer, Stat4ward Northwestern 2001, PhD in Statistics Talk...
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On Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Less Labeling Cost Tuo Zhao, Assistant Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems...
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The Biotech and Pharma Job Market for Statisticians: What You Need to Know Kelvin Shi VP and Head of Biometrics, Kymera Therapeutics Northwestern...
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Statistical Optimality and Computational Tractability of ICA Ming Yuan, Professor of Statistics, Associate Director of the Data Science Institute, Columbia University Abstract:...
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Minimax Problems in Reinforcement Learning Justin Romberg, Schlumberger Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Abstract:...
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Understanding the Universality Phenomenon in High-Dimensional Estimation and Learning: Some Recent Progress Yue M. Lu, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering...
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The Mathematics of Privacy and Synthetic Data Thomas Strohmer, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center of Data Science and...
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Invertible normalizing flow neural networks for statistical inference Yao Xie, Associate Professor and Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career...
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Foundations for Feature Learning via Gradient Descent Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Director of Center on AI Foundations for the Sciences (AIF4S) and Associate...
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Relax! The Case For Rockafellian Relaxation In Stochastic Optimization and Learning Johannes O. Royset, Professor of Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate...
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Unbiased and Robust Analysis of Co-localization in Super-resolution Microscope Images Hui Zhang, Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics) in the Division of...
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Learner-Private Convex Optimization Dana Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University Abstract: Convex optimization with feedback is a...
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Intelligent Adaptive Experimentation: Integrating Statistics & Machine Learning to Accelerate Science and Help People Joseph Jay Williams, Assistant Professor, Computer Science,...
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A modern take on Huber regression Po-Ling Loh, Professor in the Statistical Laboratory, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University...
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Leveraging "partial" smoothness for faster convergence in nonsmooth optimization Damek Davis, Associate Professor of Operations Research, Cornell University Abstract: First-order methods in nonsmooth...
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Conformal prediction beyond exchangeability Rina Foygel Barber, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago Abstract: Conformal prediction is a popular, modern technique for...
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Ultrahigh Dimensional Variable Selection for Bayesian Mixed‐type Multivariate Generalized Linear Models Hsin-Hsiung Bill Huang, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Data...
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It’s Not What We Said, It’s Not What They Heard, It’s What They Say They Heard Barry D. Nussbaum, Adjunct Professor,...
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High-order Singular Value Decomposition Anru Zhang, Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. M.D. Associate Professor, Departments of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Mathematics,...
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From Experimentation to Causal Learning: Applied Research in Tech Industry Zhenyu Zhao, Data Science Director at Tencent, Ph.D. Department of Statistics,...
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New 2-parameter families of advanced forecasting functions: seasonal/nonseasonal models, comparison to the exponential smoothing and ARIMA models, and application to...
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Department of Statistics 2021-2022 Seminar Series (joint with Biostatistics) - Spring 2022 “Deep Learning For Adjusting Complex Confounding” Xinlei Mi, Assistant Professor,...
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Department of Statistics 2021-2022 Seminar Series (joint with Biostatistics) - Fall 2021 “Additive Models for Density Responses in Functional Data Analysis” Kyunghee...
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Join Women in Statistics for this special opportunity for graduate students to discuss academia, research, mentorship, and career pathways with...
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Department of Statistics 2021-2022 Seminar Series (joint with Biostatistics) - Fall 2021 “A Computationally Efficient Approach to Estimating Species Richness and...
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Department of Statistics 2021-2022 Seminar Series (joint with Biostatistics), Co-hosted by Women in Statistics (WIST) - Fall 2021 “How Spatial Polygons...
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Department of Statistics 2021-2022 Seminar Series (joint with Biostatistics) - Fall 2021 “Regularized Low-Rank Matrix Regression” Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Associate Professor, Department of...
