Past Events
Event Date:
November 18, 2020 1-4 ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Causal Inference and Uplift Modeling has already occurred.
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Event Date:
November 17, 2020 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Predicting Disease Risk from Genomics Data
Speaker
Hongyu Zhao, (Yale University)
Abstract
Accurate disease risk prediction based on genetic and other factors can lead to more effective disease screening, prevention, and treatment strategies. Despite the identifications of thousands of disease-... more
Event Date:
Friday, November 13, 2020 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Complexity of High Dimensional Sparse Functions
Speaker
Ming Yuan, Columbia University
Abstract
We investigate optimal algorithms for estimating a general high dimensional smooth and sparse function from the perspective of information based complexity. Our algorithms and analyses reveal several... more
Event Date:
November 11, 2020 12 - 1:30 ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This career fair session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened and view the recording.]
Nature recently published an article titled "Junior researchers hit by coronavirus-triggered hiring freezes" in June, 2020.
This raises so many... more
Event Date:
November 6, 2020 10 - 11:40 Pacific Time
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Application of Statistical Inference through Data Science Techniques
This is a webinar of the 2020 Orange County Biostatistics Symposium Series to present applications of data science techniques and tools to statistical inference making, The webinar focuses on various techniques such as machine... more
Event Date:
November 6th, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Statistical Learning in Operations: The Interplay between Online and Offline learning
Speaker
David Simichi-Levi, MIT
Abstract
Traditionally, statistical learning is focused on either (i) online learning where data is generated online according to some unknown model; or (ii) offline learning where... more
Event Date:
November 4, 2020 1-4 pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Tutorial
United States
United States
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Descriptive Analytics, Exploratory Data Analysis, and Data Visualization has already occurred.
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Event Date:
October 30, 2020 at 3:00 PM ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Come join us for the first ever NISS Graduate Student Network Fall Social!
This event is for graduate students at NISS Affiliate departments or institutions. If you are not certain if your institution is a NISS Affiliate, please check the list of Affiliatte Academic Departments.
Connection... more
Event Date:
Friday, October 30, 2020, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Title: Coming Soon!
Speaker
Anima Anandkumar, (California Institute of Technology)
Abstract
Coming Soon!
Bio
Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech and Director of ML Research at NVIDIA. She was previously a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services. She has received several honors such... more
Event Date:
October 30, 2020 11 am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University is pleased to announce Nancy Reid, University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methodology at the University of Toronto, as the inaugural speaker for its newly endowed Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture.
Reid will... more