2021
Student Seminar: (George) Shuhong Liu
10:45–11:15 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
(GEORGE) SHUHONG LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“An Application of Isotonic Regression in Distribution-Free Record Series Analysis”
Student Seminar: Brandon Rhodes
10:00–10:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
BRANDON RHODES, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Methods and Applications for Shot Charts from the National Basketball Association (NBA)”
Student Seminar: Yi Hong Gordon Cheo
9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YI HONG GORDON CHEO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Exploring Joint and Layerwise Training of Hybrid Autoencoder Architectures”
Student Seminar: (Alex) Jiaai Pan
8:00–8:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
(ALEX) JIAAI PAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Unsupervised Layerwise Learning of CNN”
Student Seminar: Michael Bian
4:00–4:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
MICHAEL BIAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Training-Conditional Coverage for Distribution-Free Predictive Inference”
Student Seminar: Yuguan Wang
3:00–3:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUGUAN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Estimating the Correlation Structure of Z-scores for Trans-eQTLs Detection”
Student Seminar: Adam Ratner
2:00–2:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ADAM RATNER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Estimating Risk Neutral Distributions”
Student Seminar: (Jane) Zhaojun Zhang
1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
(JANE) ZHAOJUN ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Inference for RNA Editing Rate Comparison”
Statistics Colloquium: Lihua Lei
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
LIHUA LEI, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Conformal Inference of Counterfactuals and Time-to-event Outcomes”
Student Seminar: Pinrui Yu
3:00–3:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
PINRUI YU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Cascading Failure Event Computation with Optimal Control”