2015 Tsinghua Summer Workshop on Modern Statistics
Organized by the Center for Statistical Science of Tsinghua University
Co-sponsored by the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University
Location: Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor of Jin Chun Yuan West Building, Tsinghua University
Time: Monday June 22nd - Friday June 26th
Section 1 Morning 09:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Section 2 Afternoon 01:00 PM - 04:45 PM
Topics: modern statistical methodologies, such as dimension reduction and variable selection, Bayesian modeling and Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, statistical computing, spatial statistics, non-parametric and semi-parametric modeling, Big Data, survival analysis, clinical trial, longitudinal statistics and their applications on bioinformatics, computational biology, cancer diagnosis and prognosis, stem cell research, drug re-purposing, text mining, neuroscience, physics, health care policy and health care education, economics and finance.
Invited Speakers (alphabetic order)
Tentative Schedule
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Date |
Section |
Speaker |
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Monday |
6/22/2015 |
Morning 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM |
Ping Ma |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Wenxuan Zhong | ||
| Lunch 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
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| Afternoon 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Jun Li | ||
| 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Wei Chen | ||
| 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | Ming Hu | ||
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Tuesday |
6/23/2015 |
Morning 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM |
Dong Li |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Tingting Zhang | ||
| Lunch 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
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| Afternoon 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Zhiyong Shen | ||
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Junni Zhang | ||
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Wednesday |
6/24/2015 |
Morning 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM |
Ke Deng |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Simeng Han | ||
| Lunch 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
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| Afternoon 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Kaibo Wang | ||
| 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | Michael Yu Zhu | ||
| 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | Yi Xing | ||
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Thursday |
6/25/2015 |
Morning 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM |
Tian Zheng |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Zhaohui Steve Qin | ||
| Lunch 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
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Friday |
6/26/2015 |
Morning 09:15 AM - 10:15 AM |
Tianwei Yu |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Hao Wu | ||
Details
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June 22 (Monday) |
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| 09:05-09:10 | Opening Remark Jun S. Liu |
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| Session 1. | Chair: Jun S. Liu | |
| 09:15-10:15 | Ping Ma (University of Georgia | |
| Leveraging in Big Data Logistic Regression | ||
| 10:30-11:30 | Wenxuan Zhong (University of Georgia) | |
| A Reference-Free Metagenome Tool for Simultaneously Taxonomic Classification and Distributional Estimation of Microbial Species | ||
| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 2. | Chair: Ke Deng | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Jun Li (University of Notre Dame) | |
| Robust Estimation of Isoform Expression with RNA-Seq Data | ||
| 14:15-15:15 | Wei Chen (University of Pittsburgh) | |
| Statistical Methods for Analyzing Sequencing Data from Population and Family-based Studies | ||
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:45-16:45 | Ming Hu (New York University) | |
| Combinational Analysis of Nucleosome Architecture | ||
| 17:30-20:00 | Banquet | |
| June 23 (Tuesday) | ||
| Session 3. | Chair: Ming Hu | |
| 09:15-10:15 | Dong Li (Tsinghua University) | |
| A Double AR Model Without Intercept: an Alternative to Modeling Nonstationarity and Heteroscedasticity | ||
| 10:30-11:30 | Tingting Zhang (University of Virginia) | |
| Spatial Bayesian Variable Selection and Grouping in High-dimensional Scalar-on-image regressions | ||
| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 4. | Chair: Ping Ma | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Zhiyong Shen (Big Data Lab, Baidu Research) | |
| From Data to Intelligence: Industrial Big Data Explorations and Practices in BDL |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Junni Zhang (Peking University) | |
| Distillation of News Flow into Analysis of Stock Reactions |
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| June 24 (Wednesday) | ||
| Session 5. | Chair: Tingting Zhang | |
| 09:15-10:15 | Ke Deng (Tsinghua University) | |
| Unsupervised Chinese Word Discovery and Segmentation From Unstructured Texts |
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| 10:30-11:30 | Simeng Han (Analysis Group, Inc.) | |
| Big Data in China Healthcare System and Comparative Effectiveness Research for Individualized Medicine | ||
| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 6. | Chair: Wenxuan Zhong | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Kaibo Wang (Tsinghua University) | |
| Engineering-Knowledge-Driven Statistical Modeling for Spatial Data | ||
| 14:15-15:15 | Michael Zhu (Purdue University) | |
| BS-SIM: An Effective Variable Selection Method for High-dimensional Single Index Model |
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| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:45-16:45 | Yi Xing (UCLA) | |
| Elucidate Transcriptome Isoform Complexity Using Massive RNA-seq Data | ||
| June 25 (Thursday) | ||
| Session 7. | Chair: Michael Zhu | |
| 09:15-10:15 | Tian Zheng (Columbia University) | |
| Latent Space Model for Aggregated Relational Data | ||
| 10:30-11:30 | Steve Qin (Emory University) | |
| An Alternative to the Bayesian Hierarchical Model and its Application to Microarray Gene Expression Data | ||
| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch | |
| June 26 (Friday) | ||
| Session 8. | Chair: Steve Qin | |
| 09:15-10:15 | Tianwei Yu (Emory University) | |
| Methods for the Detection of Nonlinear Associations in High Throughput Data | ||
| 10:30-11:30 | Hao Wu (Emory University) | |
| Differential Methylation Analysis for Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing Data |
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| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch | |