Statistics Seminar [Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Binghamton University]

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===== Statistics Seminar =====
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 ([[:directions|See the directions to the department]])\\
**Time**: Thursdays, from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm\\ Organizers: [[people:mwang46:]] and [[people:pmisra:]]

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See also: [[datasci]] and the [[seminars:mas_capstone]].


==== Fall 2026 ====


==== Spring 2026 ====
  * **January 29** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/baharinb/start|Bahareh Baharinezhad]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: A case study in option trading \\ [[seminars:stat:Jan292026|Abstract]]

  * **February 12** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://nilssturma.github.io/|Nils Sturma]] (EPFL)** \\ Title: Matching criterion for identifiability in sparse factor analysis\\ [[seminars:stat:Feb122026|Abstract]]

  * **February 26** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://anfebar.github.io//|Andrés Felipe Barrientos]] (Florida State University)** \\ Title: Bayesian nonparametric modeling of mixed-type bounded data \\ [[seminars:stat:Feb262026|Abstract]]

  * **March 5** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/aadebiyi/start|Aliu Adebiyi]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: Bayesian hierarchical pathway-structured model for RNA-seq differential expression \\ [[seminars:stat:March52026|Abstract]]

  * **March 12** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/thakars/start|
Samruddhi Abhay Thakar]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: Adaptive functional principal components analysis \\ [[seminars:stat:March122026|Abstract]]

  * **March 19** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://ruobingong.github.io/|
Ruobin Gong]] (Rutgers University)** \\ Title: Privacy differentials in differential privacy \\ [[seminars:stat:March192026|Abstract]]

  * **March 24** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/zifan/start|Zifan Huang]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: From roots to strict zero crossings: developing a well-posed definition of the Buckley-James estimator \\ [[seminars:stat:March102026|Abstract]]

  * **March 26** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/rsemenko/start|
Roman Semenko]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: Reasoning under uncertainty: Dempster–Shafer theory and algorithmic approaches to belief updating \\ [[seminars:stat:March262026|Abstract]]

  * **April 9** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/ycao7/start|
Yiyi Cao]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: Bridging empirical auditing and theoretical privacy guarantees - toward robust and interpretable privacy evaluation in modern machine learning \\ [[seminars:stat:April92026|Abstract]]

  * **April 10** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://causal.dev/|
Alex Markham]] (University of Copenhagen)** \\ Title: Coarsening causal DAG models\\ [[seminars:stat:April102026|Abstract]]

  * **April 16** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/zhaoz/start|
Zhongyuan Zhao]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: On the quasi-stationary distribution of the Shiryaev–Roberts recurrence driven by exponential data\\ [[seminars:stat:April162026|Abstract]]

  * **April 23** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/wangy/start|
Yangsheng Wang]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: Functional autoencoder for smoothing and representation learning\\ [[seminars:stat:April232026|Abstract]]

  * **April 30** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://maryclare.github.io/|
Maryclare Griffin]] (UMass Amherst)** \\ Title: Not there yet: practical stopping criteria for MCMC with many chains\\ [[seminars:stat:April302026|Abstract]]

  * **May 7** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/zhaog/start|
Geran Zhao]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title: Deep canonical correlation analysis \\ [[seminars:stat:May72026|Abstract]]
==== Fall 2025 ====
  * **August 28** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/pmisra/start|Pratik Misra]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title:  Structural identifiability and causal discovery in Gaussian graphical models \\ [[seminars:stat:Aug282025|Abstract]]


  * **September 18** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://zehangli.com/|Zehang Richard Li]] (UC Santa Cruz)** \\ Title:  Robust cause-of-death assignment using verbal autopsies \\ [[seminars:stat:Sep182025|Abstract]]


  * **September 25** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www.bryonaragam.com//|Bryon Aragam]] (University of Chicago)** \\ Title:  Bridging causality and deep learning with causal generative models\\ [[seminars:stat:Sep252025|Abstract]]


  * **October 9** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mth/people/faculty/grzesik-katherine/index.html|Katherine Grzesik]] (University of Rochester)** \\ Title:  Adapting graduate-level statistics coursework for the undergraduate statistics major \\ [[seminars:stat:Oct92025|Abstract]]


  * **October 16** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://stat.cornell.edu/people/y-samuel-wang|Samuel Wang]] (Cornell University)** \\ Title:  Confidence sets for causal orderings \\ [[seminars:stat:Oct162025|Abstract]]


  * **October 30** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/drton-mathias|Mathias Drton]] (Technical University of Munich)** \\ Title: Causal modeling with stationary processes \\ [[seminars:stat:Oct302025|Abstract]]


  * **November 6** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://directory.sph.umn.edu/bio/sph-a-z/harrison-quick|Harrison Quick]] (University of Minnesota)** \\ Title:  Reliable rates in disease mapping \\ [[seminars:stat:Nov62025|Abstract]]


  * **November 13** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/dcolli10/start|David Collins]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title:  Bayesian D-optimal design of experiments with quantitative and qualitative responses \\ [[seminars:stat:Nov132025|Abstract]]


  * **November 20** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/people/grads/phillipb/start|Bruce Phillips]] (Binghamton University)** \\ Title:  Subdata selection for Principal Component Analysis \\ [[seminars:stat:Nov202025|Abstract]]


  * **December 4** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://stat.uiowa.edu/people/sanvesh-srivastava|Sanvesh Srivastava]] (University of Iowa)** \\ Title:  Bayesian compressed mixed-effects models \\ [[seminars:stat:Dec42025|Abstract]]


==== Spring 2025 ====

  * **March 6** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://vivo.weill.cornell.edu/display/cwid-yus4011|Yushu Shi]] (Weill Cornell Medicine)** \\ Title:  CAT: A conditional association test for microbiome data using a permutation approach \\  [[seminars:stat:Mar62025|Abstract]]
  * **March 20** \\ Speaker: ** Praveen Niranda (Internal)** \\ Title:  Network Reconstruction Using Nonparametric Additive ODE Models \\  [[seminars:stat:Mar202025|Abstract]]
  * **March 27** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://statistics.sciences.ncsu.edu/people/jwstalli/|Jonathan Stallrich]] (NC State)** \\ Title:  Optimal Designs for Two-Stage Inference \\  [[seminars:stat:Mar272025|Abstract]]
  * **April 3** \\ ** [[https://binghamton.zoom.us/j/98869454894?pwd=qRzlE9z301pJVQ1HHlDxlLo8oQN3Mp.1|Zoom]] presentation only** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/rumi-chunara|Rumi Chunara]] (NYU)** \\ Title:  A Multi-level Perspective for Navigating the Intersection of Data and Public Health \\  [[seminars:stat:Apr32025|Abstract]]
  * **April 10** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/biostat/people/faculty/love|Tanzy Love]] (University of Rochester)** \\ Title:  TBD \\  [[seminars:stat:Apr102025|Abstract]]
  * **April 17** \\ **ABD Exam presentation** \\ Speaker: ** Zhongyuan Zhao (Internal)** \\ Title:  On Optimality of the Shiryaev-Roberts Change-Point Detection Method in the Exponential Case \\  [[seminars:stat:Apr172025|Abstract]]
  * **April 24** \\ Speaker: ** Bruce Phillips (Internal)** \\ Title:  Data Twinning \\  [[seminars:stat:Apr242025|Abstract]]
  * **May 1** \\ Speaker: ** Xinhai Zhang (Internal)** \\ Title:  Neural Network Models in CATE Estimation \\  [[seminars:stat:May12025|Abstract]]


=====Past Semesters=====

  * [[seminars:stat:Fall2024|Fall 2024]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Spring2024|Spring 2024]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Fall2023|Fall 2023]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Spring2023|Spring 2023]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Fall2022|Fall 2022]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Spring2022|Spring 2022]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Fall2021|Fall 2021]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Spring2021|Spring 2021]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Fall2020|Fall 2020]]
  * [[seminars:stat:spring2020|Spring 2020]]
  * [[seminars:stat:Fall2019|Fall 2019]]
  * [[seminars:stat:spring2019|Spring 2019]]
  * [[seminars:stat:fall2018|Fall 2018]]
  * [[seminars:stat:spring2018|Spring 2018]]
  * [[seminars:stat:fall2017|Fall 2017]]
  * [[seminars:stat:spring2017|Spring 2017]]
  * [[seminars:stat:fall2016|Fall 2016]]
  * [[seminars:stat:summer2016|Summer 2016]]
  * [[seminars:stat:spring2016|Spring 2016]]
  * [[seminars:stat:fall2015|Fall 2015]]
  * [[seminars:stat:spring2015|Spring 2015]]
  * [[seminars:stat:fall2014|Fall 2014]]