Past Events

Past Events

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

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

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

Compound Selection Decisions: An Almost SURE Approach

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

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

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

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

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

Interpretable AI in Scientific Applications

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

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

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

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

Developing AI for Psychological Assessment

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

Recent Advances in Topic Modeling 

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

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

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

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

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

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