“Epsilon-Greedy strategy for Nonparametric Bandits,” presented by Sakshi Arya, Eberly Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics, Penn State University

“Powerful Large-scale Inference in Omics Association Studies,” Presented by Xianyang Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University

“Copula-Based Approaches for Analyzing Non-gaussian Spatial Data,” presented by Judy Huixia Wang, Chair and Professor, Department of Statistics, Washington University

“A ‘Divide-and-Conquer’ AECM Algorithm for Large non-Gaussian Longitudinal Data with Irregular Follow-Ups, presented by Reuben Retnam, Takeda Pharmaceuticals

“Interpretable Classification of Categorical Time Series Using the Spectral Envelope and Optimal Scalings,” presented by Scott Bruce, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University