2022
Student Seminar: Benjamin Ticknor
10:00–10:30 am In-Person
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Benjamin Ticknor, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“A Bayesian Method for Automated Golf Course Difficulty Rating”
DSI Events: Chara Podimata
2:00–3:00 pm In-Person and Live Stream or Zoom
Data Science Institute/Computer Science/Statistics Candidate Seminar
CHARA PODIMATA, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
“Incentive-Aware Machine Learning for Decision Making”
Host: Raul Castro Fernandez
Student Seminar: Pinhan Chen
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
Pinhan Chen, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Full Ranking”
Statistics Colloquium: Krikamol Muandet
4:30–5:30 pm In-Person and Live Stream or Zoom
Data Science Institute/Computer Science/Statistics Candidate Seminar
KRIKAMOL MUANDET, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
“Toward Reliable Machine Learning with Kernels”
Host: Victor Veitch
Statistics Colloquium: Lihua Lei
3:30–4:30 pm Via Live Stream and Zoom
Data Science Institute/Computer Science/Statistics Candidate Seminar
LIHUA LEI, Postdoctoral Research Scholar
“What Can Conformal Inference Offer To Statistics?”
Host: Dan Nicolae
DSI Events: Rowan Zellers
3:00–4:00 pm In-Person and Live Stream or Zoom
Data Science Institute/Computer Science/Statistics Candidate Seminar
ROWAN ZELLERS, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
“Grounding Language by Seeing, Hearing, and Interacting”
Statistics Colloquium: Nikolaos Ignatiadis
4:30–5:30 pm In-Person and Live Stream or Zoom
Data Science Institute/Computer Science/Statistics Candidate Seminar
NIKOLAOS IGNATIADIS, PhD Candidate, Stanford University
“Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Inference”
Host: Matthew Stephens
DSI Events: Sherry Tongshuang Wu
2:00–3:00 pm Via Live Stream and Zoom
Data Science Institute/Computer Science/Statistics Candidate Seminar
SHERRY TONGSHUANG WU, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
“Interactive AI Model Debugging and Correction”
Host: Chenhao Tan
Statistics Colloquium: Qi Lei
4:30–5:30 pm Via Live Stream and Zoom
Data Science Institute/Computer Science/Statistics Candidate Seminar
Qi Lei, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University
“Theoretical Foundations of Pretrained Models”
DSI Events: Priya Donti
2:00–3:00 pm Via Live Stream and Zoom
Data Science Institute/Computer Science/Statistics Joint Seminar
PRIYA DONTI, PhD Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
“Optimization-in-the-loop AI for energy and climate”