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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Afternoon
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM |
Zhiyong Shen |
| 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM |
Junni Zhang |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
|
Friday
|
6/26/2015
|
Morning
09:15 AM – 10:15 AM |
Tianwei Yu |
| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM |
Hao Wu |
Details
|
June 22 (Monday) |
| 09:05-09:10 |
Opening Remark
Jun S. Liu |
| 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 |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Junni Zhang (Peking University) |
Distillation of
News Flow into Analysis of Stock Reactions |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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CSS_THU_2015_06_workshop_abstract.pdf
