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Date:16 January 2025, Thursday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction

Genome-wide genetic models for outcomes of interest such as a disease state have been widely used, and have led to…

Professor David BaldingUniversity of Melbourne

Date:15 January 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Data Science: Where Statistics Meets Optimization

Modern data science spans various parts of computer science, mathematics, and applications. This talk will bring a sharp focus on…

Professor Johannes Lederer University of Hamburg

Date:14 January 2025, Tuesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Recent advances in Bayesian optimization for the physical sciences

With advances in scientific computing, computer simulations are increasingly used for investigating complex physical phenomena. For many such applications, scientific…

Assistant Professor Simon Mak Duke University

Date:9 January 2025, Thursday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Root Cause Discovery

Although the statistical literature on causality is more focused on forward causal questions about the effects of causes, reverse causal…

Postdoctoral Researcher Jinzhou Li Stanford University

Date:19 December 2024, Thursday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:10am, Singapore

Flat minima generalize for low-rank matrix recovery

Empirical evidence suggests that for a variety of overparameterized nonlinear models, most notably in neural network training, the growth of…

Assistant Professor Lijun Ding University of California San Diego

Date:9 December 2024, Monday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Posterior Conformal Prediction

Conformal prediction is a popular technique for constructing prediction intervals with distribution-free coverage guarantees. The coverage is marginal, holding on…

Postdoctoral Researcher Yao Zhang Stanford University

Date:4 December 2024, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3.15 pm, Singapore

Sampling meets machine learning: from Sequential Monte Carlo to generative models

Sampling is one of the most fundamental problems in computational inference. Beyond Bayesian statistics, it has numerous applications in modern…

Dau Hai Dang National University of Singapore

Date:6 December 2024, Friday

Location:S16-05-21

Time:2.30pm, Singapore

Towards modern datasets: laying mathematical foundations to streamline machine learning

Datasets are central to the development of statistical learning theory, and the evolution of models. The burgeoning success of modern…

PhD Candidate Chen ChengStanford University

Date:2 December 2024, Monday

Location:S16-05-21

Time:2.30pm, Singapore

Property Testing of Optimal Assortment in Contextual Multinomial Logit Models with Adaptive Sampling

The modern retailing system is witnessing fast updating in product features and customer behaviors, entailing adaptive policies that can effectively…

Postdoctoral Associate Shen Shuting Duke University

Date:27 November 2024, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:10am, Singapore

Importance of Eye-tracking and Response Time in Preference Elicitation: Theoretical and Empirical Insights

Response time is readily available in computer-based discrete choice experiments, and the emergence of webcam-based eye-tracking will soon enable the…

Assistant Professor Prateek BansalNational University of Singapore
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