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Date:27 March 2025, Thursday

Location:S16-03-06

Time:2pm, Singapore

Model Averaging for Time–Varying Vector Autoregressions

This paper proposes a novel time-varying model averaging (TVMA) approach to enhancing forecast accuracy for multivariate time series subject to…

Associate Professor Yuying Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences

Date:26 March 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Inference for Changing Periodicity, Smooth Trend and Covariate Effects in Time Series

Traditional analysis of a periodic time series assumes its pattern remains the same. However, some recent empirical studies in climatology…

Professor Cheng Ming-yen Hong Kong Baptist University

Date:19 March 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-05-21

Time:3pm, Singapore

Current Status and Challenges of Statistical Literacy in Japanese Primary, Secondary, and High Schools

Subtitle: From the Perspective of Statistical Education Required at Universities In recent years, the importance of data science education at…

Specially Appointed Professor Seiji Maki Tokyo University of Science

Date:10 February 2025, Monday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Estimating the full (conditional) distribution is crucial to many applications. However, existing methods such as quantile regression typically struggle with…

Postdoctoral Researcher Xinwei Shen ETH Zürich

Date:21 January 2025, Tuesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Modern Algorithmic Statistics: Reliability with Minimal Resources

Modern data science pipelines are often severely constrained in resources, both statistical (e.g., poor-quality input data due to outliers) as…

Research Fellow Ankit Pensia University of California, Berkeley

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
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