2024 Seminars

Bayesian Model Calibration and Sensitivity Analysis for Oscillating Biological Experiments
Date: April 26, 2024
Speaker: Youngdeok Hwang
Affiliation: Baruch College, CUNY

Advances in Adversarial Risk Analysis
Date: April 19, 2024
Speaker: Fabrizio Ruggeri
Affiliation: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

A Surrogate Modeling Journey through Gaussian Process Modeling for Computer Simulation Experiments
Date: April 12, 2024
Speaker: Robert (Bobby) Gramacy
Affiliation: Virginia Tech

Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State Policies
Date: April 5, 2024
Speaker: Beth Ann Griffin; Senior Statistician
Affiliation: RAND Corporation

Recent Advances in Bayesian Optimization for the Physical Sciences
Date: March 29, 2024
Speaker: Simon Mak
Affiliation: Duke University

Network Analysis of Multimorbidity Patterns Across Multiple EHR Systems
Date: March 15, 2024
Speaker: Yaomin Xu
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University

Graphical Methods for Order-of-Addition Experiments
Date: March 1, 2024
Speaker: Nicholas Rios
Affiliation: George Mason University

Online Ensemble of Models for Optimal Predictive Performance with Applications to Sector Rotation Strategy
Date: February 23, 2024
Speaker: Pawel Polak
Affiliation: Stony Brook University

Transfer Learning with Applications in Genomics
Date: February 16, 2024
Speaker: Hongzhe Li
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania

Differentially Private Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Federated Data
Date: February 9, 2024
Speaker: Lasse Vuursteen
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania

Psychometric Consideration for Multilingual Learners in Large-Scale Assessments in Education
Date: February 2, 2024
Speaker: Jung Yeon (Ellie) Park
Affiliation: George Mason University

Capturing Distributional Patterns in Sparse Linguistic Data
Date: January 26, 2024
Speaker: Géraldine Walther
Affiliation: George Mason University

Inferential Challenges with Spatial Data in (Air Pollution) Epidemiology
Date: January 19, 2024
Speaker: Kayleigh Keller
Affiliation: Colorado State University

The Statistical Face of a Region under Monsoon Rainfall in Eastern India
Date: November 22, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Subrata Kundu
Affiliation: Department of Statistics, George Washington University

Stage-Aware Learning for Dynamic Treatments
Date: November 15, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Annie Qu
Affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine

A Broad Overview of Response-Adaptive-Randomization With a Novel Application and Some New Insights
Date: November 8, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Lukas Pin
Affiliation: Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge

Animal Color Vision: Implications, Applications, and Future Directions
Date: November 1, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Hanley
Affiliation: Department of Biology, George Mason University

Building Trustworthy Data Analyses
Date: October 25, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Roger Peng
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Texas at Austin

Adversarial Risk Analysis
Date: October 18, 2024
Speaker: Dr. David Banks
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science, Duke University

Tough Choices in Election Forecasting: All the Things That Can Go Wrong
Date: October 11, 2024
Speaker: Andrew Gelman; Professor of Statistics and Political Science
Affiliation: Columbia University
Interviewed by: Edward Wu; Data, Polling, and Election Analytics Senior Producer, CNN

Streaming Data Analysis for Efficient Quickest Decision-Making
Date: October 2, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Yajun Mei
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, School of Global Public Health, New York University

Interdisciplinary Odyssey into the Multi-Omic Jungle: Statistical Methodology and Computational Tools for Cancer Research
Date: September 27, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Kim-Anh Do
Affiliation: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Using Partially Synthetic Frames to Evaluate Alternative Sample Designs for Estimating a Rare Business Characteristic
Date: September 20, 2024
Speaker: Katherine Jenny Thompson
Affiliation: U.S. Census Bureau

A Response-Adaptive Multi-Arm Design for Continuous Endpoints Using Entropy-Based Allocation Rule
Date: September 13, 2024
Speaker: Gianmarco Caruso
Affiliation: MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Lightning Talks
Date: September 6, 2024
Speakers: Inchi Hu, David Kepplinger, Nicholas Rios, Wanli Qiao, Lily Wang, Taylor Lewis
Affiliation: Department of Statistics, George Mason University

Lightning Talks
Date: August 30, 2024
Speakers: Jonathan L. Auerbach, Ben Seiyon Lee, William Rosenberger, Abolfazl Safikhani, John Saufken, Jiayang Sun
Affiliation: Department of Statistics, George Mason University