2025
Student Seminar: John Hood
9:00 am–11:00 pm Jones 111
Monday, November 17, 2025, at 9:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
John Hood, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Scalable Nonnegative Tensor Decomposition Models for Latent Structure Discovery in Large Complex Networks”
Student Seminar: Ian Joffe
8:00–8:30 am Jones 111
Monday, November 17, 2025, at 8:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Ian Joffe, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Searching for Linear Representation of Political Sentiment in Large Language Models”
Student Seminar: Nimish Janey
1:00–1:30 pm Jones 111
Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 1:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Nimish Janey, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Expected Shortfall Under Historical Simulation: A Monte Carlo Study ofConditional and Unconditional Backtests”
Student Seminar: Dillon Jones
12:30–1:00 pm Jones 111
Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Dillan Jones, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Robust and Range-Based GARCH Models with Leverage Effects: A Study of VaR–ES Forecasting”
Student Seminar: Nick Bourdeau
12:00–12:30 pm Jones 111
Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 12:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Nick Bourdeau, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Information-Theoretic Feature Discovery and Forecasting of US Yield Curve Movements”
Student Seminar: Ping Chi Shih
10:00 am–10:30 pm Jones 111
Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Ping Chi Shih, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Task-Aligned Factors: Supervised Autoencoders for CPI Forecasting and Futures Cross-Sections”
Student Seminar: Rahul Kukreja
9:30–10:00 am Jones 111
Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 9:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Rahul Kukreja, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Interpreting Transformers for Time-Series Forecasting”
Student Seminar: Aditi Gupta
3:00–3:30 pm Jones 111
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Aditi Gupta, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Sparse Inverse–Cholesky Estimation under Model Misspecification”
Student Seminar: Sulagna Ghosh
10:00–11:30 am Jones 111
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Sulagna Ghosh, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Scalable gradient-based variational inference for flexible point process modeling of spatiotemporal data”
Student Seminar: Xinyue Lou
3:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Xinyue Lou, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Low-Rank Reinforcement Learning for Robust Value Estimation”