Student Seminars

Spring Quarter 2024

Zoom links will be provided in their corresponding email announcements.

April

Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Melissa Adrian, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"TBA"

Thursday, April 11, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Wanrong Zhu, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"TBA"

Past Seminars

Winter Quarter 2024

Zoom links will be provided in their corresponding email announcements.

February

Monday, February 26, 2024, at 3:00 pm, Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Angzhi Fan, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Object Detection and Panoptic Segmentation through Likelihood Optimizations"

Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 2:00 pm, Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master's Thesis Presentation
Ke Shao, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Deep Generative Modeling for Cryo-EM"

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 3:00 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master's Thesis Presentation
Tonghun Lee, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Contract Design for Digital Freight Platform

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 2:30 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master's Thesis Presentation
Matthew Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Latent Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 2:00 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master's Thesis Presentation
Chenyang Lu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Association Testing for Multivariate Phenotypes"

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 1:30 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master's Thesis Presentation
Hong Won Jang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"News sentiment-driven portfolios using large language models"

Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 2:00 pm, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master's Thesis Presentation
Paarth Sharma, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Modeling the Prior with Normalizing Flows for Autoencoder-based Vision Models"

January

Monday, January 29, 2024, at 12:30 pm, in Jones 226 and via Zoom (HYBRID TALK)
Master's Thesis Presentation
Yang Xu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Nonnegative Constraints on Image Reconstruction"

Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 2:00 pm, via Zoom
Master's Thesis Presentation
Junchi Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"NLP Application in Clinical Records— Using BERT and Edit Distance for Spell Check Pipeline"

Autumn Quarter 2023

Zoom links will be provided in their corresponding email announcements.

November

October

Summer Quarter 2023

Zoom links will be provided in their corresponding email announcements.

August

July

June

Spring Quarter 2023

May

April

Winter Quarter 2023

March

February

January

Autumn Quarter 2022

December

November

October

September

Summer Quarter 2022

July

Spring Quarter 2022

May

April

Winter Quarter 2022

March

February

December

Autumn Quarter 2021

NOVEMBER

Summer Quarter 2021

August

  • Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at 2:00 PM Central Daylight  Time (US & Canada), via Zoom
    Dissertation Proposal Presentation
    Nathan Gill, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
    "Variance Decomposition in Several Settings"

July

Spring Quarter 2021

May

  • Friday, May 28, 2021, at 3:00-5:00 PM Central Daylight Time, via Zoom
    Mini-Seminars Day 2
    Moderator:  Daniel Xiang
    Video Mini-Seminars Day 2
    • Huy Dang Tran, “Graph Neural Networks“
    • Yuhan Liu, “The Time, The Gaussianity, and The Connectome“
    • Sounak Paul, “Differentially Private Networks“
    • Omar Ghattas, “Valid Statistical Inference with Random Forests“
    • YoonHaeng Hur, “Optimal Transport for Data Science“
    • Irina Cristali, “Using Embeddings for Estimating Causal Effects Over Social Networks“
  • Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 12:00-2:00 PM Central Daylight Time, via Zoom
    Mini-Seminars Day 1
    Moderator:  Abby Stevens
    Video Mini-Seminars Day 1 
    • (Joon) Joonsuk Kang, “Not All Factor Loadings Are Created Equal“
    • Wei Kuang, “Over-parameterized Matrix Sensing with Factorized Gradient Descent“
    • Subhodh Kotekal, “Statistical Limits of Sparse Mixture Detection“
    • Anghzi Fan, “WGAN and Its Regularization“
    • (Bill) Vasileios Katsianos, “Quantifying the Uncertainty in Drug-Drug Interaction Predictions“
    • Thursday, May 13, 2021, at 1:00 PM Central Daylight Time (US &Canada), via Zoom
    • Master's Thesis Presentation
    • Tianrui Hou, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
    • "Macroeconomic Nowcasting via Bootstrap Particle Filtering"

April

Winter Quarter 2021

March

February

January

  • Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at 9:30 AM Central Standard Time (US & Canada), via Zoom
    Master's Thesis Presentation
    Wenxuan Guo, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
    "Statistics of the Shepp p-Product"

Autumn Quarter 2020

December

November

October

September