The Department of Statistics Seminar Series is open to the public during the academic year and takes place on select Thursdays from 4-5 p.m. in 6011 Donald Bren Hall (unless noted). For additional information, please contact Seminar Administrative Coordinator: Lisa Stieler at lstieler@uci.edu or (949) 824-3806.
Past Statistics Seminar Series:
2020-21 • 2019-20 • 2018-19 • 2017-18 • 2016-17 • 2015-16 • 2014-15 •
2013-14 • 2012-13 • 2011-12 • 2010-11
Spring 2022
April 7
Jing Zhang
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCI
Characterizing the Brain Regulatory Grammar at a Single-cell Resolution to Highlight Disease-driving Genetic and Epigenetic Dysregulations
April 14
Regina Liu
Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
Fusion learning: Combine inferences from diverse data sources of heterogenous data
April 21
Katherine Heller
Research Scientist, Google Brain
Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning in Medicine and the Role of Uncertainty
April 28
Andrew Holbrook
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA
A Quantum Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo
May 5
Shujie Ma
Professor, Department of Statistics, UCR
Causal Inference via Artificial Neural Networks: From Prediction to Causation
May 12
Mike Daniels
Professor, Andrew Banks Family Endowed Chair, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Causal Mediation with Multiple Mediators
*Distinguished Speaker
May 19, 11:00am
Radford Neal
Professor Emeritus, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Toronto
MCMC Training of Bayesian Neural Networks
*Distinguished Speaker
Zoom only
June 2
Mine Dogucu
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Statistics, UCI
Teaching Accessibility in the Data Science Curriculum
Winter 2022
January 20
Erick Matsen
Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Towards Bayesian Phylogenetics via Systematic Search and Gradient Ascent
Join via Zoom
January 27
Siddhartha Chib
Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Washington University in St. Louis
Moment-Based Semiparametric Bayesian Causal Inference
Join via Zoom
February 3
Sha Cao
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Health Data Sciences, Indiana University
Statistical Models for Spatial Transcriptomics Data to Study Cell-cell interactions
Join via Zoom
February 10
Jeremy Taylor
Pharmacia Research Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
Assessment of Surrogacy Using Potential Outcomes and Bayesian Modeling
*This seminar will be in person for designated Statistics students and on zoom for everyone else. Join via Zoom
February 17
Wenxin Zhou
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCSD
Robust Estimation and Inference for Joint Quantile and Expected Shortfall Regression
*This seminar will be in person for designated Statistics students and
on zoom for everyone else. Join via Zoom
February 24
Miaoyan Wang
Assistant Professor, Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nonparametric Tensor Completion via Sign Series
*This seminar is fully remote. Join via Zoom
March 3
Ying Yuan
Bettyann Asche Murray Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Elastic Priors to Dynamically Borrow Information from Historical Data in Clinical Trials
*This seminar will be in person for designated Statistics students and on zoom for everyone else. Join via Zoom
March 10
Jairo Fúquene Patiño
Assistant Professor, Statistics, UC Davis
Bayesian Mixture Models, Non-local Prior Formulations and MCMC Algorithms
Join via Zoom
Fall 2021
September 30
Dan Gillen
Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine
State of the UCI Statistics Department
October 7
Elizabeth Read
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Irvine
Bridging Stochastic Mechanistic Modeling and Statistical Inference to Shed Light on Gene Regulation
Join via Zoom
October 14
Sastry Pantula
Dean, College of Natural Sciences, CSU San Bernardino
Diversity and Belonging in Statistics Profession
Diversity and Inclusion Talk
Join via Zoom
October 21
Peter Mueller
Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, UT Austin
Single Arm Trials with a Synthetic Control Arm Built from RWD
Distinguished Seminar
Join via Zoom
October 28
Dabao Zhang
Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Defining Coefficients of Determination Beyond Linear Regression
Join via Zoom
November 4
Louis Ehwerhemuepha
Data Scientist, Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Applied Statistical and Machine Learning Challenges in Pediatric Research at CHOC Children’s Health
Join via Zoom
November 18
Marina Vannucci
Noah Harding Professor of Statistics, Rice University
Bayesian Models for Microbiome Data with Variable Selection
Distinguished Seminar
Join via Zoom
December 2
Karen McKinnon
Assistant Professor of Statistics, UCLA
The “Certain Uncertainty” of Internal Variability, with Implications for Western US Water resources
Join via Zoom