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Session title: New directions in functional data analysis.
Organizer: Tailen Hsing ( UMich)
Chair:  Vincent Joseph Dorie (Columbia)
Time: June 6^th, 8:30am – 10:00am
Location: VEC 1402

Speech 1: Nonparametric covariance estimation for mixed longitudinal studies…

Session title: New machine learning methods
Organizer: Annie Qu (UIUC)
Chair: Annie Qu (UIUC)
Time: June 6^th, 8:30am – 10:00am
Location: VEC 1302

Speech 1: Generalized self-concordant optimization and its applications in statistical learning
Speaker: Quoc …

Session title: Recent advances in spectral methods for complex data
Organizer: Yuekai Sun (UMich)
Chair: Edgar Dobriban (Upenn)
Time: June 6^th, 8:30am – 10:00am
Location: VEC 1202/1203

Speech 1: Analyzing Developmental Processes with Optimal Transport 
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Session title: Advances in Nonparametric Statistics and their Applications
Organizer: Narisetty, Naveen (UIUC)
Chair: Fei Xue (UIUC)
Time: June 6^th, 8:30am – 10:00am
Location: VEC 902/903

Speech 1: Fly-By-Night Life Insurance and the NPMLE for Weibull …

Session title: Machine Learning and Precision Medicine
Organizer: Haoda Fu (Eli Lilly)
Chair: Genevera Allen(Rice)
Time: June 6^th, 8:30am – 10:00am
Location: VEC 404 /405

Speech 1:  Support vector machines for learning optimal individualized treatment rules …

Session title: Data Science in IT Industries
Organizer: David Banks (Duke)
Chair: Genevera Allen(Rice)
Time: June 5^th, 3:15pm – 4:45pm
Location: VEC 1403

Speech 1 : Using Data Science to Improve Streaming Quality at Netflix
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Session title: Spectral Clustering, Functional Graphical Models, and Hierarchical Interactions
Organizer: Lingzhou Xue (Penn State)
Chair: Kuang-Yao Lee (Temple)
Time: June 5^th, 3:15pm – 4:45pm
Location: VEC 1402

Speech 1: Spectral clustering based on learning similarity …

Session title: New Development on Neuroimage Data Analysis
Organizer: Zhu, Hongtu (MD Anderson)
Chair: Xuan Bi(Yale)
Time: June 5^th, 3:15pm – 4:45pm
Location: VEC 1303

Speech 1: A Low-Rank Multivariate General Linear Model forMulti-Subject fMRI Data …

Session title: Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Data
Organizer: Jeff Simonoff (NYU)
Chair: Jeff Simonoff (NYU)
Time: June 5^th, 3:15pm – 4:45pm
Location: VEC 1302

Speech 1: Quantile Regression for big data with small memory
Speaker: Xi …

Session title: Interpretable modeling and understanding variables
Organizer: Cynthia Rudin (Duke)
Chair: Cynthia Rudin (Duke)
Time: June 5^th, 3:15pm – 4:45pm
Location: VEC 1203

Speech 1: Model Class Reliance: Variable Importance when all Models are Wrong, …