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Master's Thesis Defense: Conformal Prediction for Spatial Count Data under Dependence: A Conclique-Based Calibration Approac

Lingyuan Zhao, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Statistics & Data Science Seminar Series Presents: Distinguished Speaker Xihong Lin

Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics and Chair and Professor of Statistics at Harvard University
Seigle Hall, Room 208

Master's Thesis Defense: Nonparametric Local Linear Estimation of Spot Volatility Functionals

Ran Hu, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Master's Thesis Defense: Change-Point Detection for Conditional Distributions via Kernel and Neural Network Methods

Weichen Kang, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Dark Matter Walks into a Likelihood Function

Tansu Daylan, Assistant Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Master's Thesis Defense: Environmental Exposure Patterns and Autism Spectrum Disorder in the ABCD Study: A Nonlinear and Factor-Based Analysis

Zhaoxuan Wang, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 431

Master's Thesis Defense: Diffusion-based Conditional Density Estimation for Time Series

Xiaoxuan Zhao, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Lopata 202

PhD Oral Thesis Defense: Assumption-lean Inference for Network-Linked Data

Wei Li, PhD Candidate in Statistics and Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) Compute2 Tutorial Session

Presented by Sizhe Zhang, Operations and System Specialist, WashU CHPC (Center for High Performance Computing)
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Using a Two-Parameter Sensitivity Analysis Framework to Efficiently Combine Randomized and Non-randomized Studies

Bikram Karmakar, Assistant Professor of Statistics at University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Graduate Student Seminar: Covariance Networks for Sparsely Observed Functional Data

Kaustav Paul, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation: Using Expected Shortfall to Solve Risk Capital Allocation

Stephanie Yang, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Master's Thesis Defense: Expected Shortfall Regression: A Comparative Study of Three Estimators

Yutian Han, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Double Sampling and Semiparametric Methods for Informatively Missing Not at Random Data

Sebastien Haneuse, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University
Seigle Hall, Room 208

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation: Cross-National Predictive and Causal Analysis of Depression Risk Factors in Asian Student and Working Populations

Cindy Nan, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Statistics and Data Science Programs – Challenges and Opportunities

This event is co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Washington University in St. Louis, Danforth Campus

Master's Thesis Defense: Testing Conditional Distribution Equality Using Generative Models

Zekai Jin, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Spring Break 2026 - no classes

Graduate Student Seminar: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Entity Ranking Under Iterative Synthetic Data Augmentation

Yiqiao Jin, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Bayesian Causal Inference with Uncertain Physical Process Interference

Corwin Zigler, Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University
Seigle Hall, Room 208

A&S CREATES Presents: Data Science for Air Quality Policy: Setting National Standards and Health Impacts of Power Plants

Corwin Zigler, Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University
Hillman 60

SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series Presents: Digital Humanities and AI Research Opportunities for Students

Claudia Carroll, Postdoctoral Research Associate in TRIADS and Gabi Kiriloff, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Potential Outcome Modeling and Estimation in DiD Designs with Staggered Treatments

Siddhartha Chib, Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Local Variable Selection for High-Dimensional Spatial Data

Debjoy Thakur, Postdoctoral Lecturer in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A/531

Bayesian Nonparametric Measurement with Gaussian Processes: From Static to Dynamic Item Response Theory

Jacob Montgomery, Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Love Data Week 2026

A week of presentations and workshops around all things data, presented by Bernard Becker Medical Library, WashU Libraries, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Digital Intelligence & Innovation (DI2) Accelerator, School of Public Health, Institute for Informatics, Data Science & Biostatistics (I2DB), Brown School Library, Continuing & Professional Studies, and The Graduate Center.

Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Statistical Inference for Complex Data: from Change-Point Detection to Conditional Independence Testing

Yi Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A/531

Optimal Prediction of Asset Returns and Factors of the Stock Market

Guofu Zhou, Frederick Bierman & James E. Spears Professor of Finance, Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Designing Randomized Experiments under Network Interference

Emma Zhang, Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management at Emory University
Seigle Hall, Room 301

Martin Luther King Holiday 2026 - no classes

Tailoring Nuisance Function Estimation for Optimal Downstream Causal Inference

Sean McGrath, Postdoctoral Assistant in Biostatistics and Public Health, Yale University
Danforth University Center, Room 234

First Day of Classes, Spring 2026

Reading Days and Exams - Fall 2025

Compound Selection Decisions: An Almost SURE Approach

Lihua Lei, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University
Crow Hall, Room 206

Thanksgiving Break 2025 - no classes

Graduate Student Seminar: Assumption-Lean Inference for Network-Linked Data

Wei Li, PhD Candidate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

BET and BELIEF

Kai Zhang, Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Crow Hall, Room 206

Information Session: MA and Accelerated BA/MA in Statistics

Calling all undergraduate students!
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Cointegration Between Two Intrinsically Stationary Spatial Processes

Qiwei Yao, Professor of Statistics at London School of Economics and Political Science
Crow Hall, Room 206

Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Integrating literary theory and data science: Assessing GPT-generated synthetic fiction for stylistic accuracy using Random Forests

Claudia Carroll, Postdoctoral Research Associate in TRIADS at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Fall 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Explore 300+ faculty-mentored undergraduate research projects
Frick Forum (1st floor) and other locations in Bauer/Knight Halls

Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy

Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University
Crow Hall, Room 206

AI for Health: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Advance Human Health

Chenyang Lu, Fullgraf Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Director of the AI for Health Institute at Washington University in St. Louis
Crow Hall, Room 206

SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series: Veavi Chang

Calling all Statistics & Data Science Graduate Students and Postdocs!
Jolley Hall, Room 531

Graduate Student Seminar: Adaptive Iterative Hard Thresholding for Online High-dimensional Quantile Regression

Zitian Zhou, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Towards Interpretable and Trustworthy Network-Assisted Prediction

Liza Levina, Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics at University of Michigan
Crow Hall, Room 206

Graduate Student Seminar: Localized Detection of Authenticity in Mixed Source Texts via Epidemic Change-point Perspective

Subhrajyoty Roy, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Reinforcement Learning

Nan Jiang, Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Crow Hall, Room 206

Fall Break 2025 - no classes

Interpretable AI in Scientific Applications

David Dunson, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science at Duke University
Crow Hall, Room 206

A Signed-Rank Estimator in Nonlinear Regression Models When Covariates and Errors Are Dependent

Hira Koul, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Graduate Student Seminar: Kernel Bandwidth Selection for Maximum Mean Discrepancy

Hangcen Zou, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Estimating the Effect of Spatial Interventions in the Presence of Interference: A Causal Inference Approach

Nathan Wikle, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science at University of Iowa
Crow Hall, Room 206

SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series: Professors Mengxin Yu and Chao Cheng

Calling all Statistics & Data Science Graduate Students and Postdocs!
Jolley Hall, Room 531

ASA Statistics Day at Washington University in St. Louis

Organized by ASA St. Louis Chapter
In collaboration with ASA Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA Washington University Student Chapter, and the Washington University Department of Statistics & Data Science
Washington University in St. Louis Danforth Campus, events start in Crow Hall, Room 201

Statistical Neuroimaging Analysis: An Overview

Lexin Li, Professor of Biostatistics at University of California, Berkeley
Crow Hall, Room 206

SDS Fall Welcome Party

The Boathouse, Forest Park

Graduate Student Seminar: Analyzing Soccer Shots with Spatial Hierarchical Item Response Theory

Sayan Das, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Scalable Community Detection in Massive Networks Using Aggregated Relational Data

Tian Zheng, Professor of Statistics at Columbia University
Duncker Hall, Room 201 Hurst Lounge

Artificially Intelligent Geospatial Systems: A Case Study in Spatial Energetics for Mobile Health Data

Sudipto Banerjee, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Statistics at University of California, Los Angeles
Danforth University Center, Room 276

Labor Day 2025 - no classes

Developing AI for Psychological Assessment

Josh Oltmanns, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

First Day of Classes, Fall 2025

Bear Beginnings: Department of Statistics and Data Science Open House

Calling all new WashU students!
Jolley Hall, 5th Floor Lobby

Last Summer Class Session Ends - Summer 2025

WashU Alumni and Friends Reception at the 2025 JSM in Nashville

Omni Nashville Hotel | Room H - Cumberland 4

Independence Day Holiday 2025 - no classes

Memorial Day Holiday 2025 - no classes

First Summer Class Session Begins - Summer 2025

Commencement 2025

Third Year Candidacy Presentation: Some Results in High Dimensional Spatial Statistics and Multivariate Extreme Value Theorem

Sidney Nwakanma, PhD Student in Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Reading Days and Exams, Spring 2025

Last Day of Classes, Spring 2025

Assumption-lean Inference for Network-linked Data

Wei Li, PhD Student at Washington University in St. Louis
Duncker Hall, Room 101

Recent Advances in Topic Modeling 

Tracy Ke, Associate Professor of Statistics at Harvard University
Duncker Hall, Room 101

Third Year Candidacy Presentation: Gaussian Approximations and Bootstrap Methods in High-Dimensional Time Series

Sayan Das, PhD Student at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation: Investigating Spatial, Environmental, and Socioeconomic Risk Factors of Breast Cancer Incidence in Illinois

Leah Qin, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 431

Third Year Candidacy Presentation: Fast Direct H-likelihood Estimation Using Selected Inverse for Irregular Spatial Data

Hangcen Zou, PhD Student at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Graduate Student Seminar: Analyzing Free Response Data Using TextRank and GPT

Alex Sabrio, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation: Dynamic Lambda Estimation in High-Frequency Market Making

Thomas Li, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, 539A

2025 Black Journeys Conference

Statistics PhD Student, Gifty Osei will speak by nomination at this event!
Sumers Welcome Center, Bluedorn Family Presentation Room

Breaking the Sample Complexity Barrier in Reinforcement Learning

Yuxin Chen, Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
Duncker Hall, Room 101