Georgia Statistics Day Program

Time	Session	Event	Location
8:00-9:00	Registration	Coffee and Donuts	Hall in Front of IC 103
9:00-9:30	Opening Ceremony	Gary S. May, Dean of College of Engineering, Georgia Tech Jeff Wu, Coca Cola Professor, Georgia Tech	IC 103
9:30-10:30	Keynote	Professor Iain Johnstone, Stanford University Low rank structure in highly multivariate models	IC 103
10:30-10:40		Short Coffee Break	Hall in Front of IC 103
10:40-12:00	Session A1 Session Chair: Xiaoming Huo	10:40-11:00 Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University A Nonparametric Approach for Partial Areas Under ROC Curves 11:00-11:20 Yao-Hsuan Chen, CDC Assess model calibration uncertainty using optimization and meta-regression models 11:20-11:40 Kamran Paynabar, Georgia Institute of Technology High Dimensional Streaming Data Analysis for Process Monitoring and Defect Detection 11:40-12:00 Yao Xie, Georgia Institute of Technology Sequential Low-rank Change Detection	IC 209
10:40-12:00	Session A2 Session Chair: Ben Haaland	10:40-11:00 Xuelei (Sherry) Ni, Kennesaw State University Kernel Fusion-Refinement for Semi-supervised Nonlinear Dimension Reduction 11:00-11:20 Gengsheng Qin, Georgia State University Empirical Likelihood-based Confidence Intervals for Mean Medical Cost With Censored Data 11:20-11:40 Daniel Linder, Augusta University Parameter Inference in Biochemical Reaction Networks 11:40-12:00 Yunxiao Chen, Emory University A Fused Latent and Graphical Model for Multivariate Binary Data	IC 211
12:00-2:00	Lunch	Poster Presentations Poster Evaluation Committee: JC Lu (Chair, GaTech), Steve Qin (Emory), and Ping Ma (UGA)	ISyE Attrium
2:00-3:20	Session B1 Session Chair: Kamran Paynabar	2:00-2:20 Rurh Hummel, JMP-SAS Text Mining with JMP 13 2:20-2:40 Seonghye Jeon, IBM Global Business Service Bridging the Gap: From Academic Training to Real World Analytics 2:40-3:00 Laurie Barker, CDC Statistics and Collaboration at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 3:00-3:20 Huan Yan, Wells Fargo Wells Fargo Quantitative Associate Program	IC 209
2:00-3:20	Session B2 Session Chair: Yajun Mei	2:00-2:20 Cheolwoo Park, University of Georgia Nonparametric Comparison of Multiple Regression Curves in Scale-Space 2:20-2:40 Lance Waller, Emory University Exploring the Impact of American Community Survey Demographics on Small-Area Health Studies 2:40-3:00 D. Andrew Brown, Clemson University A Bayesian Generalized CAR Model for Correlated Signal Detection 3:00-3:20 Huan, Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology Outlier Pursuit: Robust PCA and Collaborative Filtering	IC 211
3:30-5:00	Featured Talks Session Chair: Roshan Vengazhiyil	3:30-4:00 T. N. Sriram, University of Georgia Dimension Reduction in Time Series 4:00-4:30 Suprateek Kundu, Emory University Scalable Bayesian Variable Selection for Structured Ultra High dimensional Data 4:30-5:00 Xiaoming Huo, Georgia Tech A Distributed Estimator with Statistical Guarantee and Numerical Efficiency	IC 103
5:00-5:30		Coffee Break, Snack, Social Interaction	ISyE Atrium
5:30-6:00	Closing Ceremony	Poster Awards (Steve Qin), Announcing GSD 2017 (Lance Waller), Thanks to Sponsoring Institutions (Brani Vidakovic)	IC 103