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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

Third Year Candidacy Presentation: Statistical Inference for Subgraph Densities Under Induced Random Sampling from Network Data

Ayoushman Bhattacharya, PhD Student at Washington University in St. Louis

Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Re-imagining precision medicine: beyond what the eye can see

Shinjini Kundu, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Assistant Professor of Electrical & System Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation: A Statistical Reading of 16th- and 17th-Century English Printed Sermons

Vedul Palavajjhala, Undergraduate Student at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A

PDA: Privacy-preserving Distributed Algorithms for Clinical Evidence Generation using Networked Data

Yong Chen, Professor of Biostatistics at University of Pennsylvania
Duncker Hall, Room 101

Recent Developments in Nonstationary Time Series Analysis with Applications

Xiucai Ding, Assistant Professor of Statistics at UC Davis
Duncker Hall, Room 101

Graduate Student Seminar: Subgroup Identification Based on Mixed Model for Repeated Measures for Alzheimer's Disease Trial

Zhichen Xu, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University
Jolley Hall, 539A

Advancing Trustworthy Machine Learning: A Perspective from Calibration and Sparsity

Yan Sun, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Jolley Hall, 539A

The High-Dimensional Asymptotics of Principal Components Regression

Alden Green, Stein Fellow at Stanford University
Jolley Hall, 539A

Spectral Clustering in the Gaussian Mixture Block Model

Shuangping Li, Stein Fellow at Stanford University
Jolley Hall, 539A

On Principal Component Regression in High Dimension

Elad Romanov, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University 
Duncker Hall, Room 101

Posterior Conformal Prediction

Yao Zhang, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University 
Jolley Hall, 539A

Graduate Student Seminar: Statistical Inference for Integrated Volatility in the Presence of Jumps

Tianwei Zhou, PhD Student in Statistics and Data Science at Washington University
Jolley Hall, 539A

Challenges and Opportunities in Assumption-free and Robust Inference

Yuetian Luo, Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Chicago
Jolley Hall, 539A

Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment: Statistics and Computation

Gabriel Rioux, PhD Candidate in Applied Mathematics at Cornell University 
Jolley Hall, 539A