February 25, 2026 11:00 am 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
February 13, 2026 1:00 pm 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
February 11, 2026 11:00 am 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
February 06, 2026 1:00 pm 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
February 04, 2026 11:00 am 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
January 28, 2026 11:00 am Designing Randomized Experiments under Network Interference Emma Zhang, Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management at Emory University Seigle Hall, Room 301
January 14, 2026 11:00 am 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
December 03, 2025 11:00 am Compound Selection Decisions: An Almost SURE Approach Lihua Lei, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University Crow Hall, Room 206
November 21, 2025 1:00 pm 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
November 19, 2025 11:00 am BET and BELIEF Kai Zhang, Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Crow Hall, Room 206
November 12, 2025 11:00 am Cointegration Between Two Intrinsically Stationary Spatial Processes Qiwei Yao, Professor of Statistics at London School of Economics and Political Science Crow Hall, Room 206
November 07, 2025 1:00 pm 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
November 05, 2025 11:00 am Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University Crow Hall, Room 206
October 29, 2025 11:00 am 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
October 24, 2025 1:00 pm 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
October 22, 2025 11:00 am Towards Interpretable and Trustworthy Network-Assisted Prediction Liza Levina, Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics at University of Michigan Crow Hall, Room 206
October 10, 2025 1:00 pm 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
October 08, 2025 11:00 am Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Reinforcement Learning Nan Jiang, Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Crow Hall, Room 206
October 01, 2025 11:00 am Interpretable AI in Scientific Applications David Dunson, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science at Duke University Crow Hall, Room 206
September 26, 2025 1:00 pm Graduate Student Seminar: Kernel Bandwidth Selection for Maximum Mean Discrepancy Hangcen Zou, Washington University in St. Louis Jolley Hall, Room 539A
September 24, 2025 11:00 am 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
September 19, 2025 8:45 am 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
September 17, 2025 11:00 am Statistical Neuroimaging Analysis: An Overview Lexin Li, Professor of Biostatistics at University of California, Berkeley Crow Hall, Room 206
September 12, 2025 3:00 pm Graduate Student Seminar: Analyzing Soccer Shots with Spatial Hierarchical Item Response Theory Sayan Das, Washington University in St. Louis Jolley Hall, Room 539A
September 10, 2025 11:00 am Scalable Community Detection in Massive Networks Using Aggregated Relational Data Tian Zheng, Professor of Statistics at Columbia University Duncker Hall, Room 201 Hurst Lounge
September 03, 2025 11:00 am 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
August 27, 2025 11:00 am Developing AI for Psychological Assessment Josh Oltmanns, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Jolley Hall, Room 539A
April 16, 2025 11:00 am Recent Advances in Topic Modeling Tracy Ke, Associate Professor of Statistics at Harvard University Duncker Hall, Room 101
April 14, 2025 2:00 pm Graduate Student Seminar: Analyzing Free Response Data Using TextRank and GPT Alex Sabrio, Washington University in St. Louis Jolley Hall, Room 539A
April 09, 2025 11:00 am 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
April 07, 2025 2:00 pm 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
April 02, 2025 11:00 am 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
March 26, 2025 11:00 am Recent Developments in Nonstationary Time Series Analysis with Applications Xiucai Ding, Assistant Professor of Statistics at UC Davis Duncker Hall, Room 101