Department of Statistics - Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

Department of Statistics - Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

Seminar Series 2020-2021

For the Spring 2021 Seminar Series, all talks will take place via Zoom from 4-5 p.m. For additional information, please contact Seminar Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Stieler at lstieler@uci.edu or (949) 824-3806. Past Statistics Seminar Series: 2019-20 • 2018-19 • 2017-18 • 2016-17 • 2015-16 • 2014-15 • 2013-14 • 2012-13 • 2011-12 • 2010-11

Spring 2021

April 1 Bruno Sanso Professor of Statistics, UCSC “Multi-scale Models for Non-stationary Spatial Datasets” Join via Zoom
April 5 (Monday, 10 a.m.) Edward Kennedy Assistant Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University Joint seminar with Department of Economics “Optimal Doubly Robust Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects” Join via Zoom
April 22 Jose-Miguel Yamal Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas School of Public Health, Biostatistics and Data Science “Statistics and Machine Learning Methods for EHR Data: From Data Extraction to Data Analytics/Predictions” Join via Zoom
April 29 Mimi Liljeholm Associate Professor of Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences, UCI “Uncertainty & Invariance in Causal Inference” Join via Zoom
May 6 Tyler H. McCormick Associate Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington “Identifying the Latent Space Geometry of Network Models Through Analysis of Curvature” Join via Zoom
May 13 Gongjun Xu Associate Professor of Statistics, Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan “Statistical Inference for Noisy Incomplete 1-Bit Matrix” Join via Zoom
May 20 Helen Zhang Professor of Mathematics, University of Arizona “Oracle P-values for High Dimensional Regression Models” Join via Zoom
May 27 Uri Eden Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University “Characterizing Complex, Multi-scale Neural Phenomena Using State-space Models” Join via Zoom

Winter 2021

January 5 Dana Yang Postdoctoral Researcher, Duke University “A Few Recovery Problems from Noisy Observations”
January 7 Carlos Cinelli PhD candidate, UCLA “Transparent and Robust Causal Inference in Data Science”
January 11 Jesus Arroyo Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland “Statistical Inference for Multiple Network Data”
January 12 Raaz Dwivedi PhD candidate, UC Berkeley “New Perspectives on Old Problems in Causal Inference and MCMC Sampling”
January 14 Yinqiu He PhD student, University of Michigan “Hypothesis Testing for Large-Scale Data: Enhancing Reliability and Efficiency”
January 19 Youjin Lee Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania “The Role of Social Network Dependence in the Replication Crisis”
January 21 Sameer Deshpande Postdoctoral Associate, MIT “VCBART: Bayesian Trees for Varying Coefficients”
February 11 Scarlett Bellamy Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Faculty Development Epidemiology and Biostatistics Drexel University “Creating and Sustaining Effective Pipeline Initiatives to Increase Diversity in Biostatistics: A Case Study of the ENAR Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics Workshop” Join via Zoom.
February 18 Eric Laber Professor of Statistical Science and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University “Sample Size Considerations for Precision Medicine” Join via Zoom.
February 25 Bo Li Professor of Statistics University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Detection of Local Differences in Spatial Characteristics between Two Spatiotemporal Random Fields” Join via Zoom.
March 4 Peter Song Professor, Department of Biostatistics University of Michigan “Analyzing High-dimensional Mediators by Mixed Integer Optimization” Join via Zoom.
March 11 Briana Stephenson Assistant Professor, Biostatistics Harvard University “Statistical Methods to Accommodate Population Diversity in Large Cohort Studies” Join via Zoom.

Fall 2020

October 1 Jelena Bradic, UCSD “Causal Learning: Excursions in Double Robustness” Join seminar via Zoom.
October 8 Mahlet Tadesse, Georgetown University “Variable Selection in Mixture of Regression Models: Uncovering Cluster Structure and Relevant Features” Join seminar via Zoom.
October 15 Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, UPenn “An introduction to Proximal Causal Learning” Join seminar via Zoom.
October 22 Babak Shahbaba, UCI “Latent Variable Modeling for Neural Data Analysis” Join seminar via Zoom.
October 29 Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State “Who Wrote It? A Hierarchical Mixture Model for Forensic Handwriting Analysis” Join seminar via Zoom.
November 5 Francesco Denti, Post Doc, UCI “Bayesian Sparse Regression via Cluster Shrinkage Parameters” Join seminar via Zoom.
November 12 Luohua Jiang, UCI “Evaluating Community-Based Translational Interventions Using Historical Controls: Propensity Score vs. Disease Risk Score Approach” Join seminar via Zoom.  
November 19 Zhaoxia Yu, UCI “Time-varying $ell_0$ Optimization for Spike Inference from Multi-trial Calcium Recordings” Join seminar via Zoom.
December 3 Weining Shen, UCI “Matrix Data Modeling: Smoothing and Covariance Estimation” Join seminar via Zoom.