Some Reflections on Rosenbaum and Rubin’s Propensity Score Paper Presented by Roderick J. Little Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan Wednesday, April 24, 2024 4:00 PM-5:00 PM ET AUST 163 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Rosenbaum […]

Integration of Traditional and Telematics Data for Efficient Insurance Claims Prediction Presented by Himchan Jeong, Simon Fraser University Thursday, February 21 2024 4:00 PM-5:00 PM ET AUST 163 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:30 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) While driver telematics has gained attention for risk classification in auto […]

Variational Mutual Information Estimation: from Data Collection to Large Vision-Language Models Presented by Qing Guo, Virginia Tech Tuesday, January 30 2024 3:30 PM-4:30 PM ET AUST 105 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:00 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) In today’s digital landscape, the deluge of data across various domains can […]

Robust Statistical Methods for Noisy Complex Network Data Presented by Wenrui Li, University of Pennsylvania Thursday, February 1 2024 3:30 PM-4:30 PM ET AUST 105 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:00 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) In recent years there has been an explosion of network data from seemingly all […]

Nonparametric Estimation via Variance-Reduced Sketching Presented by Daren Wang, University of Notre Dame Thursday, January 25 2024 3:30 PM-4:30 PM ET AUST 105 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:00 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Nonparametric models are of great interest in various scientific and engineering disciplines. Classical kernel methods, while […]

Continuous Statistical Models for Modern Computational Neuroscience Presented by William Consagra, Harvard Medical School Monday, January 29 2024 3:30 PM-4:30 PM ET AUST 105 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:00 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Recent advances in neuroimaging technologies hold great promise to bolster our understanding of the structure […]

Non-convex Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient MCMC and Schrödinger Bridge Presented by Wei Deng, Morgan Stanley Monday, February 5 2024 3:30 PM-4:30 PM ET AUST 105 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:00 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Generating models from data relies on Monte Carlo methods; generating data from models […]

Characterizing Human Reward-based Decision-making Behavior with Reinforcement Learning Models Presented by Xingche Guo, Columbia University Tuesday, February 6 2024 3:30 PM-4:30 PM ET AUST 105 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:00 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disability-adjusted life years. […]

Practicality meets Optimality: Real-Time Statistical Inference under Complex Constraints Presented by Sen Na, University of California, Berkeley Thursday, February 8 2024 3:30 PM-4:30 PM ET AUST 105 Webex Meeting Link Coffee will be served at 3:00 pm in the Noether Lounge (AUST 326) Constrained estimation problems are prevalent in statistics, machine learning, and engineering. These […]