Schedule

8:00 am – 9:10 am
Registration
9:10 am – 9:40 am
Opening Ceremony
Matias Cattaneo (Chair, Local Organizing Committee), Runze Li (Chair, Program Committee), Sanjeev Kulkarni (ORFE/ECE, former Dean of the Faculty)
9:40 am – 10:05 am
Peter Bickel
Independence and functional dependence I

Xuming He (Chair)

10:05 am – 10:30 am
Kosuke Imai
Safe Policy Learning through Extrapolation: Application to Pre-trial Risk Assessment

Xuming He (Chair)

10:30 am – 10:55 am
Philip A. Ernst
New Frontiers in Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes

Xuming He (Chair)

10:55 am – 11:35 am
Group Photo & Break
Location
Fountain of Freedom
11:35 am – 12:35 pm
Panels 1, 2, & 3

Panel 1: Frontier Research on Minimax estimation
Friend 004

Florentina Bunea, Harrison Zhou, Zongming Ma, Weijie Su, Bill Strawderman, Linda Zhao (Chair)

Panel 2: Meet Editors and Department Heads (Junior researcher Career development)
Computer Science 104

Gang Li, Annie Qu, Tian Zheng, Dylan Small, Ji Zhu, Liza Levina, Yazhen Wang, Edward George, Minge Xie (Chair)

Panel 3: Frontier research on optimization in data science
Friend 101

Steve Kou, Ethan Fang, Yuxin Chen, Zhaoran Wang, Yao Xie, Lingzhou Xue, Yang Ning, Yaqi Duan (chair)

12:35 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:25 pm
Yacine Ait-Sahalia
So Many Jumps, So Few News

Zhiliang Ying (Chair)

2:25 pm – 2:50 pm
Qiwei Yao
Autoregressive Networks

Zhiliang Ying (Chair)

2:50 pm – 3:15 pm
Jinchi Lv
SIMPLE-RP: Group Network Inference with Non-Sharp Nulls and Weak Signals

Zhiliang Ying (Chair)

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm – 3:55 pm
Irène Gijbels
Circular local likelihood regression

Jiayang Sun (Chair)

3:55 pm – 4:20 pm
Wenyang Zhang
A Flexible and Parsimonious Modelling Strategy for Clustered Data Analysis

Jiayang Sun (Chair)

4:20 pm – 4:45 pm
Ming-Yen Cheng
Inference for nonstationary time series with varying periodicity, a smooth trend and covariate effects

Jiayang Sun (Chair)

4:45 pm – 6:15 pm
Poster
Location
Friend Center Upper Atrium

Zhengjun Zhang (Chair)

8:30 am – 8:55 am
J. S. Marron
Object oriented data analysis

Raymond Carroll (Chair)

8:55 am – 9:20 am
Wolfgang Härdle
Robustifying Markowitz

Raymond Carroll (Chair)

9:20 am – 9:45 am
Enno Mammen
Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

Raymond Carroll (Chair)

9:45 am – 10:00 am
Break
10:00 am – 10:25 am
Richard Samworth
Optimal nonparametric testing of missing completely at random, and its connections to compatibility

Li-Shan Huang (Chair)

10:25 am – 10:50 am
Hui Zou
M-Optimal designs through the lens of modern optimization

Li-Shan Huang (Chair)

10:50 am – 11:15 am
Heather Battey
Inducement of population sparsity

Li-Shan Huang (Chair)

11:15 am – 11:30 am
Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Panels 4, 5, & 6

Panel 4: Data Science applications in real world
Computer Science 104

Hongtu Zhu, Rui Song, Emre Barut, Lei Qi, Igor Silin, Runlong Tang, Wei Dai (Chair)

Panel 5: Frontier research on business statistics and Econometrics
Friend 004

Zongwu Cai, Elynn Chen, Rong Chen, Weining Wang, Yan Yu, Emma Zhang, Yingying Li, Yongyi Guo (Chair)

Panel 6: Frontier research on machine learning
Friend 101

Edgar Dobriban, Xi Chen, Yuting Wei, Cong Ma, Krishna Balasubramanian, Marco Avella-Medina, Yuejie Chi, Lan Wang, Jelena Bradic, Haolei Weng(Chair)

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm – 2:25 pm
Hans Mueller
Distributional Regression with Optimal Transports

Jin-Ting Zhang (Chair)

2:25 pm – 2:50 pm
Jane-Ling Wang
Deep Learning for Partial Linear Cox Model

Jin-Ting Zhang (Chair)

2:50 pm – 3:15 pm
Chunming Zhang
New statistical learning method for independent component analysis in the presence of noise

Jin-Ting Zhang (Chair)

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm – 3:55 pm
Xihong Lin
Fast Distributed Principal Component Analysis for Large-Scale Federated Data

Jiancheng Jiang (Chair)

3:55 pm – 4:20 pm
Jianwen Cai
Feature screening for case-cohort studies with failure time outcome

Jiancheng Jiang (Chair)

4:20 pm – 4:45 pm
Kinh Truong
On estimating power spectral density for independent component analysis

Jiancheng Jiang (Chair)

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm
Jennifer Rexford (Provost, Princeton)
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Break
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Panels 7, 8, & 9

Panel 7: Frontier research on statistical genetics
Friend 004

Jun Liu, Haiyan Huang, Jessica Li, Hongyu Zhao (Chair)  

Panel 8: Frontier research on biostatistics
Computer Science 104

Ying Lu, Yi Li, Quefeng Li, Ying Wei, Zhezhen Jin, Catherine Liu, Haibo Zhou (Chair)

Panel 9:  Frontier Research on high-dimensional data modeling
Friend 101

Donggyu Kim, Kaizheng Wang, Yuan Ke, Yiqiao Zhong, Weichen Wang, Wenxin Zhou, Qiang Sun, Qiman Shao (Chair)

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Conference dinner
Ronnie Sircar (Chair, ORFE)
Location
Frick Chemistry Laboratory
8:30 am – 8:55 am
Tony Cai
Optimal Statistical Estimation under Nonstatistical Constraints

Lucy Xia (Chair)

8:55 am – 9:20 am
Jiashun Jin
The Statistics Triangle

Lucy Xia (Chair)

9:20 am – 9:45 am
Per Mykland
Of Lean Cats, Unsupervised Learning, and Contiguity

Yingying Li (Chair)

9:45 am – 10:10 am
Marc Hallin
Inferential theory for generalized dynamic factor models

Yingying Li (Chair)

10:10 am – 10:30 am
Break
10:30 am – 10:55 am
Peter Bühlmann
Invariant!

Xin Tong (Chair)

10:55 am – 11:20 am
Ming Yuan
Statistical Optimality and Computational Tractability of ICA

Xin Tong (Chair)

11:20 am – 11:45 am
Xiao-Li Meng
From Gaussianity to Cauchyanity: A Worthwhile Trade-off for (Ultra) High-dimensional Inference?

Yang Feng (Chair)

11:45 am – 12:10 pm
David Donoho
ScreeNOT: Exact MSE-Optimal Singular Value Thresholding in Correlated Noise

Yang Feng (Chair)

12:10 pm – 12:30 pm
Closing remarks
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch