Master and Undergraduate Research Experience in Statistics (MURES) Symposium
May 7, 2025
Beckman Institute
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM | Opening Session (Room 1005)
10:00 – 10:10 | Opening Remarks
10:10 – 10:25 | Zheer Wang, Mohit Singh, Idrees Kudaimi
Era-adjusted baseball statistics: website, software, tech report, and interesting findings
(Mentor: Daniel Eck)
10:35 AM – 11:55 AM | Morning Sessions
Room 1005 (Chair: Hyoeun Lee):
10:35 – 10:50 | Rachel Zhou, Arseniy Titov
Simulation Toolbox for Epidemic Control Models with Mean Field Games
(Mentor: Gökçe Dayanıklı)
11:00 – 11:15 | Sanjana Addanki
How Course Modality and COVID-19 Impacted GPA Trends in LAS STEM and Humanities at UIUC
(Mentor: Christopher Kinson)
11:15 – 11:30 | Rong Xie, Kejun Sun, Yutao Rao
Bitcoin price prediction using various learning methods
(Mentor: Hyoeun Lee)
11:30 – 11:45 | Leah Decatus-Haddad
Police Budgets and Crime Rates in Urbana
(Mentor: Christopher Kinson)
Room 3269 (Chair: Pamela Martinez):
10:35 – 10:50 | Siddhant Gupta
Dimensionality Reduction in Neural Activity Simulations: A Computational Approach Using HNN-Core and Synaptic Weight Modulation
(Mentor: Matthew Singh)
11:00 – 11:15 | Jeffrey Huang, Yunxi Zeng
Matching Methods for Observational Factorial Studies
(Mentor: Ruoqi Yu)
11:15 – 11:30 | Carrie Song
Understanding the influence of geographical and environmental factors on respiratory disease infections
(Mentor: Pamela Martinez)
11:30 – 11:45 | Alyssa Anastasi
Analyzing health seeking behavior in response to respiratory diseases in Illinois
(Mentor: Pamela Martinez)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch for MURES Participants and Mentors (Atrium, Beckman Institute)
1:00 PM – 1:55 PM | Afternoon Session I
Room 1005 (Chair: Kit Clement):
1:00 – 1:15 | Luke Thorell, Elen Huang
Measuring Student Comprehension of the Simulation Process: Ownership of Simulations vs. Pre-Built Applets
(Mentor: Kit Clement)
1:20 – 1:35 | Madeline Hunt, Samin Hemani
Is Tolerance of Uncertainty Related to Students' Understanding of Statistics?
(Mentor: V.N. Vimal Rao)
1:40 – 1:55 | Xiaoshan Huang
Bayesian Modeling of Rusty Blackbird Winter Counts in Arkansas
(Mentor: Weijia Jia)
Room 3269 (Chair: Lelys Bravo de Guenni):
1:00 – 1:15 | William Wang, Zitao Zhang
Estimating Causal Effects of Cover Crop Implementation on Crop Yield Using an Instrumental Variable
(Mentor: Chan Park)
1:20 – 1:35 | Tyler Hetch, Baoyuan Zhou
Extreme Heat Events impacts on Health: An analysis of Emergency Department Visits across the US during years 2018 -2025
(Mentor: Lelys Bravo de Guenni)
1:40 – 1:55 | Jaehoon Jung
Assessing the Impact of Weather Constraints on Drone Flyability Using Geostatistical Methods
(Mentor: Lelys Bravo de Guenni)
2:00 PM – 2:55 PM | Afternoon Session II
Room 1005 (Chair: Hyoeun Lee):
2:00 – 2:15 | Mingqian Wang
Bridging Deep Learning and Symbolic Regression: A Hybrid Approach for Interpretability and Expressiveness
(Mentor: Matthew Singh)
2:20 – 2:35 | Shreyas Talluri
The Creation of Individualized Brain Models to Control Brain Dynamics in Response to TMS
(Mentor: Matthew Singh)
2:40 – 2:55 | Jerry Liang
Queue-Based Load Modeling and Detection of DoS Attacks
(Mentor: Georgios Fellouris)
Room 3269 (Chair: Lelys Bravo de Guenni):
2:00 – 2:15 | Karena Liang
Time Series Modeling of Malaria Cases: Integrating Climate and Mosquito Data through Machine Learning
(Mentor: Lelys Bravo de Guenni)
2:20 – 2:35 | Vinayak Bagdi
Assessing Trends in Heat Waves' Intensity, Frequency, Duration, and Season Length in Boston and Chicago Metropolitan Areas
(Mentor: Lelys Bravo de Guenni)
