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Structure-driven design of reinforcement learning algorithms: a tale of two estimators Wenlong Mou, Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto Abstract:...
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Quantum Computation and Statistics Yazhen Wang, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Abstract: Quantum computation and quantum information are of great current...
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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...
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Autonomous Learning: Unifying OOD Detection and Continual Learning Bing Liu, Distinguished Professor and Peter L. and Deborah K. Wexler Professor of...
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Subsampling for Big Data Regression with Measurement Constraints Lin Wang, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Purdue University Abstract: Despite the availability of extensive...
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A holistic and critical look at language agents Yu Su, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State...
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How to Detect Out-of-Distribution Data in the Wild? Sharon Y. Li, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences, University of...
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Mathematics in Scientific Machine Learning Rebecca Willett, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science & the Faculty Director of AI at the...
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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...
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...
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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,...
