2021
![Ming Gao](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Ming Gao
9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
MING GAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Model-Based Trajectory Inference for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Using Deep Learning with a Mixture Prior”
![Yuhang Cai, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Yuhang Cai
10:00–11:00 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUHANG CAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Distances Between Probability Distributions of Different Dimensions”
![Hsiang Wang, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Hsiang Wang
9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
HSIANG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Monte Carlo Simulation for HJM Model and Learning Networks for Pricing Caplets/ Floorlets”
![Abby Stevens, PhD Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Abby Stevens
3:00–4:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
ABBY STEVENS, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Data Science Theory and Applications in Climate Science, Epidemics, and Public Health”
![Puyuan Peng, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Puyuan Peng
4:00–4:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
PUYUAN PENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“A Correspondence Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Acoustic Word Embeddings”
![Samory K. Kpotufe](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Statistics Colloquium: Samory K. Kpotufe
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
SAMORY K. KPOTUFE, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
“From Theory to Clustering”
![Haoyang Wu, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Haoyang Wu
11:00 am–12:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Haoyang Wu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Conformal Predictive Inference for Kernel-conditional Coverage”
![James Leiner, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: James Leiner
10:00–11:00 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JAMES LEINER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Novel Data Splitting Techniques for Poisson Regression”
![Jinhong Du, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Jin-Hong Du
9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JIN-HONG DU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Spectral Nearness Problems as Multiparameter Singular Value Problems”
![Zihao Zheng, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Zihao Zheng
8:30–9:00 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ZIHAO ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Inference of Trends in Time Series”