2022
Student Seminar: Jarrod Dominguez
3:00–3:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JARROD DOMINGUEZ, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Active Automatically Managed Deep Portfolios with Cryptocurrency Assets”
Student Seminar: Jack Potrykus
12:20–12:50 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JACK POTRYKUS, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Development of a Python Package for Matching Observational Data”
Student Seminar: Zehao Shao
3:00–3:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ZEHAO SHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Online LDA with Sparse Update”
Student Seminar: JieXin Chen
2:30–3:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JIEXIN CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High Dimensional Model Selection Problem for Asset Pricing Model”
Student Seminar: Song Liang
2:00–2:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
SONG LIANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Res-VAE: A Highly Scalable Causal Network Discovery Method”
Student Seminar: Xiaomeng Wang
1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
XIAOMENG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Reweighting the Knockoff Filter for Computational Efficiency”
Student Seminar: Heming Liu
8:45–9:45 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
HEMING LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Bridging Convex and Nonconvex Optimization for Matrix Completion in a Non-Uniform World”
Student Seminar: Ji-Eon Kim
1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JI-EON KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Measuring Natural Direct Effect by Machine Learning: A Case Study of Societal Trust’s Effect on Income Smoothing”
Statistics Colloquium: Alexander Rakhlin
4:30–5:30 pm Via Zoom
ALEXANDER RAKHLIN, Statistics and Data Science Center, IDSS; Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences; Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“On the Statistical Complexity of Interactive Decision-Making”
Student Seminar: Benjamin Picker
12:00–12:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
BENJAMIN PICKER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“The Hips as a Four-Bar Linkage System: Using Reinforcement Learning to Explore Compensation Patterns in Patients with Leg Length Discrepancies”