The Statistics seminar aims to cover topics from all areas of statistics both from a traditional perspective but also from a more data science perspective. The seminar is also offered as MATH 567, Seminar in Statistics, Section 01.

Location: Whitney 100E (See the directions to the department)
Time: Thursdays, from 1:15 pm to 2:40 pm
Organizer: Rakhi Singh

See also: Data Science Seminar and the Capstone Seminar.

Previous organizer(s): Qiqing Yu

• January 19
  No seminar
  

• January 26
  Speaker: Wenshu Dai (Binghamton University)
  Title: Model-based clustering of longitudinal data
  Abstract

• February 2
  Speaker: Xinhai Zhang (Binghamton University)
  Title: Estimating individual treatment effects under unobserved confounding using binary instruments
  Abstract

• February 9
  Speaker: Zhou Wang (Binghamton University)
  Title: Neural Contextual Bandits with Deep Representation and Shallow Exploration
  Abstract

• February 16
  No seminar
  

• February 23
  (Zoom) Speaker: Tirthankar Dasgupta (Rutgers University)
  Title: Bayesian perspectives in causal inference
  Abstract

• March 2
  No seminar (university break)
  

• March 9
  Speaker: Baozhen Wang (Binghamton University)
  Title: Combining p-values via averaging
  Abstract

• March 16
  Speaker: Zifan Huang (Binghamton University)
  Title: Estimations of variances of the MLE parameters under the multiple linear regression model and the uniform distribution
  Abstract

• March 23
  Speaker: Jason M Klusowski (Princeton University)
  Title: Are Decision Trees as Powerful as Neural Networks?
  Abstract

• March 30
  Speaker: Ruoqi Yu (UC Davis) online via zoom
  Title: Balancing weights in observational factorial studies
  Abstract

• April 6
  No Seminar (Spring break)

• April 13
  Speaker: Wei Yang (Binghamton University)
  Title: Unitary Neural Networks
  Abstract

• April 20
  Speaker: Jingze Liu (Binghamton University)
  Title (ABD talk): Statistical Inference using Generative Adversarial Networks
  Abstract

• April 25 (12 pm)
  Data Science Seminar time
  Speaker: Yangsheng Wang (Binghamton University)
  Title: NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION FOR REPEATED MEASUREMENTS WITH DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS
  Abstract

• April 27
  Data Science seminar speaker
  Speaker: Runze Li (Penn State)
  

• May 4
  Speaker: Geran Zhao (Binghamton University)
  Title: Deep Learning for Functional Data Analysis with Adaptive Basis Layers
  Abstract