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+<WRAP centeralign>##Data Science Seminar##\\ Hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics</WRAP>
+  * Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022
+  * Time: 12:00pm -- 1:00pm
+  * Room: Via Zoom
+  * Speaker: Dr. Rui Song  (senior principal scientist at Amazon; Professor at North Carolina State University)
+  * Title: On statistical inference for sequential decision making.
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+<WRAP centeralign>**//Abstract//**</WRAP>
+ \\
+Reinforcement learning is a general technique that allows an agent to
+learn an optimal policy and interact with an environment in sequential
+decision making problems. The goodness of a policy is measured by its
+value function starting from some initial state. This talk includes a
+few topics about constructing statistical inference for a policy's
+value in infinite horizon settings where the number of decision points
+diverges to infinity. Applications in real world examples will also be
+discussed.
+ \\
+Biography of the speaker: Dr. Song is currently a senior principal scientist at Amazon. She got
+her PhD in Statistics from University of Wisconsin in 2006 and has
+been a faculty member at North Carolina State University since 2012.
+Her recent research focuses on adapting statistical advances to make
+optimal treatment decisions for an individual patient, based on all
+information available for that patient. She develops efficient and
+powerful statistical approaches to use personalized, multi-stage
+information of patients in modeling, estimation, inference, selection
+of important prognostic factors and evaluating treatment responses for
+personalized treatment discoveries. Her research has been supported as
+principal investigator by National Science Foundation (NSF) including
+the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. She has
+served as an associate editor for several statistical journals. She is
+an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and
+Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
+</WRAP>