Conference on Evolving Statistical Data Science
Celebrate 30 Years of Mason Statistics
Events (subject to small update)
Friday, March 24
Time | Event Location: Nyugen Engineering Building, Room 1101 |
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10:00AM - 10:30AM | Introduction: Jiayang Sun, Professor and Chair of Mason Statistics Welcome: Kenneth Ball, Dean of CEC, and Gurdip Singh, Divisional Dean |
10:30AM - 11:30AM | Panel: Alumni Spotlight and Wonderful Careers Moderator: Michael Holland, Nicholas Rios
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11:30AM - 11:45AM | Break and Socializing |
11:45AM - 12:30PM | Keynote: "Evolving ChatGPT: Data Engineering, Data Minding, and Data Intelligence" Moderator: Seiyon Lee
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12:30PM - 02:00PM | Lunch and Socializing |
02:00PM - 02:40PM | Panel: Opportunities Moderator: Brett Hunter
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02:40PM - 02:50PM | Break |
02:50PM - 03:30PM | Panel: Future of Statistics and Data Science Moderator: Abolfazl Safikhani
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03:30PM - 04:00PM | Pictures, Break, Walk, and maybe Cheery Tree Bloom by the Pond (with 70% probability) |
04:00PM - 05:30PM | Student/Faculty Poster Session |
05:45PM - 07:30PM | Banquet, Song, and Memory Moment. Location: Horizon Hall,2014 |
Saturday, March 25
Time | Event Location: Horizon Hall, Room 2009 |
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09:15AM - 10:00AM |
Continental Breakfast |
10:00AM - 11:00AM |
Closing Talk: "Genes, Brain, and Us"
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11:00AM - 11:30PM |
Poster Awards and Thank you |
11:30PM - 01:00PM |
Lunch and Farewell |
Speakers & Distinguished Panelists
Bringing Together Some of the Best Minds in Statistics: Meet Our Esteemed Speakers and Panelists!
Keynote Speaker
-Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard
-Editor-in-chief of Harvard Data Science Review
-COPSS Presidents' Awardee (2019)
-Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Panelists
- Vice president of analytics leading innovation Lifelenz
- Chairman of the Advisory Board
- Senior Mathematical Statistician for Data Science at the U.S. Census Bureau
- A fellow of the American Statistical Association,
- 2020 ASA President
- Vice President of the Statistics and Data Science Unit for Westat
- Received the ASA Founders award (2022)
- IMS Carver Medal (2019)
- Professor of Statistics, George Mason University
- Chief Editor of Biometrics, North America
- Professor of Statistics, George Mason University
- Former NSF Program Director
- Co-Editor Elect of Statistica Sinica (2023-)
- Chief Scientist, Deputy CTO at Noblis
- Executive Director of the American Statistical Association
- Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics
- Professor in the Child Study Center, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
- Former Chief Editor of JASA - A&CS
- Royan International Award on Reproductive Health
- IMS Neyman Lecturer
Conference Committee Members
Members
- Jonathan Auerbach
- Tokunbo Fadahunsi
- Michael Holland
- Inchi Hu
- Brett Hunter
- Wanli Qiao
- Nicholas Rios (Committee Chair)
- Martin Slawski
- Jiayang Sun
We would also note that this event would have been impossible without the dedication of our support staff, Amir-uz-zamani Hasan, Muntaka Jabeen, Niharika Upadhyayula, and Muath Salem Alhayani