9:30 AM – 9:50 AM - Alma Mater Room
Breakfast
9:50 AM – 10:00 AM - Lincoln Room
Opening Remarks
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
Session I (3 Students, 1 Faculty – 12 minutes each, including questions)
Arghya Chakraborty: Sequential Change-point Detection in High Dimensions
Chenyang Wang: Estimating the Number of Components in Finite Mixture Models via Variational Approximation
Zhiyuan Yu: Variational Inference via Thouless-Anderson-Palmer Free Energy
Eren Kizildag (Faculty)
10:50 AM – 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Wijsman Lecture (Speaker: Ming Yuan)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM - Alma Mater Room
Lunch
1:10 PM – 1:50 PM - Lincoln Room
Session II (2 Students, 1 Faculty – 12 minutes each, including questions)
Mehrdad Mohammadi: Offline Multi-Dimensional Distributional Reinforcement Learning: A Hilbert Space Embedding Approach
Adam Tonks: Geospatial Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Matthew Singh (Faculty): Neural Dynamics & Control: Adventures in State-Space
1:50 PM – 2:00 PM
Break
2:00 PM – 2:50 PM
Session III (3 Students, 1 Faculty – 12 minutes each, including questions)
David Kim: Randomization Tests for Distributions of Individual Treatment Effects using Multiple Rank Statistics
Young Joo Lee: RESCUE: Computational Negative Selection for Spatial Transcriptomics Data via Robust Sparse Recovery
Bo Yuan: Microbiome Data Integration via Shared Dictionary Learning
Yuexi Wang (Faculty)
2:50 PM – 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 PM – 3:50 PM
Norton Paper Session (2 Students – 25 minutes each)
3:50 PM – 4:00 PM
Break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Bohrer Lecture (Speaker: Dylan Small)
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Lincoln Room
Award Presentations and Poster Session
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Dinner