Statistics Seminar
The Statistics Seminar was organized by Yunan Wu and Qiwei Li in Fall 2022.
| Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| Aug 26, 10:00 am | ECSW 1.315 | Jerry Y.-T. Shih Professor National Chung Hsing U, Taiwan | Predicting adverse drug effects: A heterogeneous graph convolution network with a multi-layer perceptron approach [Slides] |
| Sep 2, 3:30 pm | SCI 1.220 and Online | Jiayi Wang and Noirrit Chandra Asst Professors UT Dallas | A brief research overview [Slides1][Slides2][Recording] |
| Sep 9, 3:30 pm | Online | Yuqi Gu Asst Professor Columbia | Bayesian pyramids: Identifiable multilayer discrete latent structure models for discrete data [Slides][Recording] |
| Sep 16, 3:30 pm | SCI 1.220 and Online | Yang Ni Asst Professor Texas A&M | Causal graphical models for discovering gene regulations [Slides][Recording] |
| Sep 23, 3:00 pm | GR 3.420 and Online | Peter Müller Professor UT Austin | Bayesian nonparametric common atoms regression for generating synthetic matching populations [Slides][Recording] |
| Sep 30, 3:30 pm | SCI 1.220 and Online | Agustin Tello, Senior Director, Santander Consumer USA | Quantitative modeling and its application to the auto-finance business [Slides][Recording] |
| Oct 7, 3:00 pm | GR 3.420 and Online | Huiyan Sang Professor Texas A&M | BAMDT: Bayesian additive semi-multivariate decision trees for nonparametric regression [Slides][Recording] |
| Oct 14, 3:30 pm | Online | Gyuhyeong Goh Assoc Professor Kansas State U | Scalable Bayesian inference for high-dimensional regression [Slides][Recording] |
| Oct 21, 3:30 pm | SCI 1.220 and Online | MinJae Lee Assoc Professor UT Southwestern | Statistical approaches for handling various measurement issues [Slides and Recording available upon request] |
| Oct 28, 11:00 am | ECSW 1.315 and Online | Yue Wang Asst Professor Arizona State U | T2-DAG: A powerful test for differentially expressed gene pathways via graph-informed structural equation modeling [Slides][Recording] |
| Nov 4, 11:00 am | Online | Liang Hong Assoc Professor UT Dallas | Prediction of insurance claims based on a machine learning strategy [Slides] [Recording] |
| Nov 7, 11:00 am | SLC 1.202 and Online | Jun Li Professor U Michigan | From Laplace’s Demon to MERFISH: Open problems in interrogating spatial transcriptomics data [Slides][Recording] |
| Nov 11, 11:00 am | ECSW 1.315 and Online | Min Xu Asst Professor Rutgers | Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks [Slides][Recording] |
| Nov 18, 11:00 am | Online | Ander Wilson Assoc Professor Colorado State U | Identifying perinatal critical windows with mixtures and heterogeneity via structured regression trees [Slides][Recording] |
| Dec 2, 11:00 am | ECSW 1.315 and Online | Shujing Sun Asst Professor UT Dallas | Does telemedicine affect physician decisions? Evidence from antibiotic prescriptions [Slides][Recording] |
| Dec 9, 11:00 am | Online | Ashok Chaurasia Asst Professor Waterloo | Model-modified BIC as a competitor of BIC variants for model selection in regression and order selection in time series [Slides][Recording] |