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
Past Events
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
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