2025
Student Seminars: Yating Liu
10:00–11:00 am Jones 111
Thursday, May 1, 2025, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Yating Liu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High-Dimensional Inference Through Latent Structure”
Student Seminar: Aditya Raman
3:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Aditya Raman, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Estimation of Approximately Sparse Covariance Operators for Multivariate Gaussian Processes”
Student Seminar: Lorenzo Rangone
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 111
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Lorenzo Rangone, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Combining Machine Learning and Data Assimilation Techniques for Moder Error Correction in Stochastic Dynamical Systems”
Student Seminar: Chin Howe Tsai
1:30–2:00 pm Jones 111
Wednesday April 30, 2025, at 1:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Chin Howe Tsai, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Predicting Aircraft Trajectory with Experimental Flight Data using Recurrent Neural Network”
Student Seminar: Kiran Duggirala
11:00–11:30 am Jones 111
Wednesday April 30, 2025, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Kiran Duggirala, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Factor Augmented Time Series Approaches to Financial Forecasting Using Macroeconomic Data”
Student Seminar: Juntao Mei
10:30–11:00 am Jones 303
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Juntao Mei, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Backtesting Dependence in VaR: Simulation and Empirical Evidence from Financial Time Series Data”
Student Seminar: Wufang Hong
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Wednesday April 29, 2025, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Wufang Hong, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Empirical Partially Bayes Two Sample Testing”
Student Seminar: Hongyi Zhang
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111
Monday April 28, 2025, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Hongyi Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Robust Point-Set Registration via Non-Convex Optimization under Noise”
Student Seminar: Xiang Lu
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Monday April 28, 2025, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Xiang Lu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Special orthogonal, special unitary, and symplectic groups as products of Grassmannians”
Student Seminar: Yilong Chen
1:00–1:30 pm Jones 111
Monday April 28, 2025, at 1:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Yilong Chen, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Categorical Variational Autoencoder for Count Tensor Decomposition”