2023
![JungHo Lee, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: JungHo Lee
3:30–4:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JUNGHO LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Extending Summability to Matrices”
![Taewan Kim, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Taewan Kim
3:00–3:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
TAEWAN KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Understanding the Transcriptional Regulation with 3D Genomic Structure”
![Gerald White, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Gerald White
1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
GERALD WHITE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Exploring Denoising Autoencoder Architectures for Self-Supervised Learning”
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Student Seminar: Sansen Wei
12:15–12:45 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
SANSEN WEI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Structured Sparsity via the Generalized Elastic Net”
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Student Seminar: Yunhong Wang
4:30–5:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUNHONG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Understanding the Sample Complexity of Offline Robust Reinforcement Learning With A General Uncertainty Set”
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Student Seminar: Zilai Si
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 303
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ZILAI SI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Path-Following in Bayesian Inference”
![Ilgee Hong, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Ilgee Hong
1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ILGEE HONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Simplified Framework for Contrastive Learning for Node Representations”
![Sowon Jeong, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Sowon Jeong
11:00–11:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
SOWON JEONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Understanding Graph Neural Network as a Dimension Reduction Technique”
![Jake Singleton, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Jake Singleton
10:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JAKE SINGLETON, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicagoi
“Bayesian Bradley-Terry Models Infer Tennis Player Skills and Predict Tennis Match Results”
![Gemma Moran](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Statistics Colloquium: Gemma Moran
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
GEMMA MORAN, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
“Identifiable Deep Generative Models via Sparse Decoding”