2017 Statistics Graduate Student Research Day: 40 years of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto

April 28, 2017, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

The department of statistical sciences was first established in 1977 by Professor Donald A. S. Fraser. Since its establishment, it has served as a center of excellence for statistical research for four decades, with applications in areas including medical and pharmaceutical research, computer science, finance and insurance.

This year we are featuring research from students and faculty affiliated with the department of Statistical Sciences in celebration of its 40th anniversary.

We invite you to join us on April 28th for the celebration and look forward to seeing you there!

Poster Presentations

Poster presentations will be taking place during lunch. Please see the poster presentations schedule at this link.

Schedule

Friday, April 28th, 2017
09:00 to 09:10	Opening
09:10 to 10:10	Bias and Discrimination in Data-Driven Decision Making Alexandra Chouldechova, Carnegie Mellon University
10:10 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:00	Beating the Market: Dynamic Asset Allocation with a Market Portfolio Benchmark Ali Al-Aradi, University of Toronto
11:00 to 12:00	Statistical Analysis of High-Dimensional, Complex Structured, "Imperfect" Data - Some Issues and Methods Grace Yi, University of Waterloo
12:00 to 13:40	Lunch and Poster Presentations
13:40 to 14:10	Sampling and Estimation for (Sparse) Exchangeable Graphs Victor Veitch, University of Toronto
14:10 to 15:10	Additive function regression Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University
15:10 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:00	Functional Regression with Unknown Manifold structure Zhenhua Lin, University of Toronto
16:00 to 17:00	Recent Advances in Post-Selection Statistical Inference Rob Tibshirani, Stanford University

Poster Abstracts

To view poster abstracts, please click here.

Invited Speakers

Name	Affiliation
Ali Al-Aradi	University of Toronto
Alexandra Chouldechova	Carnegie Mellon University
Zhenhua Lin	University of Toronto
Ana-Maria Staicu	North Carolina State University
Rob Tibshirani	Stanford University
Victor Veitch	University of Toronto
Grace Yi	University of Waterloo

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Ali Al-Aradi	University of Toronto
Alisha Albert-Green	University of Toronto
Siddharth Ancha	University of Toronto
David Andrews	University of Toronto
Nnenna Asidianya	University of Toronto
Asal Aslemand	University of Toronto, Mississauga
Richard Bailey	University of Toronto
Nicholas Bakewell	University of Toronto
Cédric Beaulac	University of Toronto
Leopoldo Bertossi	Carleton University
Laurent Briollais	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Kevin Brown	Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Patrick Brown	University of Toronto
Shelley B	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Angelo Canty	McMaster University
Philippe Casgrain	University of Toronto
Phil Chalmers	York University
Bo Chen	University of Toronto
Pai-Shan Cheng	University of Toronto
Yun-hee Choi	Western University
Alexandra Chouldechova	Carnegie Mellon University
Radu Craiu	University of Toronto
Brenda Crowe	Eli Lilly and Company
Sotirios Damouras	University of Toronto
Wei Deng	University of Toronto
Apostolos Dimitromanolakis	Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto
Haosui Duanmu	University of Toronto
Marguerite Ennis
Reihaneh Entezari	University of Toronto
Mike Evans	University of Toronto
Luhui Gan	University of Toronto
Alex Gao	University of Toronto
Alison Gibbs	University of Toronto
Yang Guo	University of Toronto
Zhaoyu Guo	University of Toronto
Spencer Harris	University of Toronto
Armin Hatefi	University of Toronto
Xuancheng Huang	University of Toronto
Yu Huo	Toronto Metropolitan University
Jeff Irvine	Brock University
Sebastian Jaimungal	University of Toronto
Gun Ho Jang	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Sohee Kang	University of Toronto
Han Na Kim	Western University
Keith Knight	University of Toronto
Dehan Kong	University of Toronto
Heather Krause	Datassist
Jerry Lawless	University of Waterloo
Thomas Leahy	Imperial College London
Ju Hui Lee	Scotiabank
Evgeny Levi	University of Toronto
Longhai Li	University of Saskatchewan
Sheldon Lin	University of Toronto
Wei(Becky) Lin	University of Toronto
Yu-Chung Lin	University of Toronto
Zhenhua Lin	University of Toronto
Xiaoming Liu	Western University
Wendy Lou	University of Toronto
Leif Erik Lovblom	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Tao Ma	University of Toronto
Georges Monette	York University
Zacharie Naulet	University of Toronto
Radford Neal	University of Toronto
Jeffrey Negrea	University of Toronto
Timothy Park	University of Toronto
Kishan Patel	University of Toronto
Jolynn Pek	York University
Nancy Reid	University of Toronto
Geoffrey Roeder	University of Toronto
Daniel Roy	University of Toronto
Denis Rustand	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Yodit Seifu	ferring pharmaceuticals
Alessandro Selvitella	McMaster University
Ekansh Sharma	University of Toronto
Shubham Sharma	University of Toronto
Suhail Shergill	Scotiabank
Arvind Shrivats	University of Toronto
Ana-Maria Staicu	North Carolina State University
Kaiwen Sun	University of Toronto
Lei (Liam) Sun	University of Toronto
Nathan Taback	University of Toronto
Ken Tam	University of Toronto
Rob Tibshirani	Stanford University
Fode Tounkara	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Kate Tuzov	CVM
Victor Veitch	University of Toronto
Stanislav Volgushev	University of Toronto
Karren Wang	University of Toronto
Augustine Wong	York University
Hao Wu	Boston College
Bowen Xu	University of Toronto
Lizhen Xu	Apotex Phamarceutical company
Alex Yang	University of Toronto
Rao Yao	University of Toronto
Grace Yi	University of Waterloo
Megan Yow	University of Toronto
Lin Zhang	University of Toronto
Ting Zhang	University of Toronto
Yuxing Zhang	University of Toronto
Zhou Zhou	University of Toronto
Yiliang Zhu	University of South Florida

Organizing Committee

Radu Craiu - University of Toronto

Xuancheng Huang - University of Toronto

Nancy Reid - University of Toronto

James Stafford - University of Toronto

Lei (Liam) Sun - University of Toronto

Stanislav Volugshev - University of Toronto

Alex Yang - University of Toronto

Fang Yao - University of Toronto

Fields Contact: Adnan Zuberi

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