Program – Georgia Statistics Day 2019

Monday, October 14, 2019
Time	Event
07:30-08:30	Registration
08:30-08:50	Opening Remarks Jeff Wu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Wells Fargo Keynote Session
08:50-09:50	Susan Murphy (Harvard University) Stratified Micro-randomized Trials with Applications in Mobile Health
09:50-10:10	Coffee Break
Invited Session 1
10:10-10:35	Yao Xie (Georgia Institute of Technology) Robust Hypothesis Testing Using Wasserstein Uncertainty Sets
10:35-11:00	Rey de Castro/Laurie Barker (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
11:00-11:25	Max Lau (Emory University) New Model Diagnostics for Epidemiological and Ecological Models
11:25-11:50	Cheng Mao (Yale University) Spectral Graph Matching and Regularized Quadratic Relaxations
Invited Session 2
10:10-10:35	Tuo Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology) Optimal Nonparametric Regression on Low Dimensional Manifolds using Deep Neural Networks
10:35-11:00	Liang Liu (University of Georgia) An Age-Dependent Birth-Death Model for Gene Family Evolution
11:00-11:25	David Benkeser (Emory University) Collaborative Inference for Causal Effect Estimation and General Missing Data Problems
11:25-11:50	Santu Ghosh (Augusta University) Two-Sample High Dimensional Mean Test Using Prepivot
Poster Competition
11:50-13:50	P&G and ASA Poster Competition
Invited Session 3
13:50-14:15	Huan Yan (Wells Fargo) Explainable Neural Network for Mortgage Analytics
14:15-14:40	William Brenneman (P&G) Practice makes Perfect
14:40-15:05	Khalifeh Al Jadda (Home Depot) Transforming E-Commerce Recommender Systems with Data Science
Invited Session 4
13:50-14:15	Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology) Predicting AC Optimal Power Flows: Combining Deep Learning and Lagrangian Dual Methods
14:15-14:40	Mayya Zhilova (Georgia Institute of Technology) New Non-Asymptotic Results about Accuracy of Bootstrap in a High-Dimensional Setting
14:40-15:05	Rui Xie (University of Central Florida) Online Decentralized Leverage Score Sampling for Streaming Multidimensional Time Series
15:05-15:25	Coffee Break
Long Talk Session
15:25-16:05	Xiaoming Huo (Georgia Institute of Technology) Interface of Statistics, Computing, and Data Science
16:05-16:45	Wenxuan Zhong (University of Georgia) A Decentralized Data Fusion Approach for Heterogeneous Scattered Data
16:45-17:25	Limin Peng (Emory University) Quantile Regression Modeling of Latent Trajectory Features with Longitudinal Data
Reception
17:25-17:55	Poster Award
17:55-18:55	Home Depot Evening Reception