Schedule

Location: Georgia Tech Exhibition Hall  –  (Building Map)

Time	Session
8:45am – 9:00am	Opening Ceremony Midtown II – 1st floor
9:00am – 10:00am	Keynote Speaker Samuel Kou (Harvard University) Catalytic Prior Distributions for Bayesian Inference Midtown II
10:00am − 10:15am	Coffee Break
Invited Talks (Parallel Sessions)
10:15am − 10:55am	Yanbo Xu (Microsoft) Large-Scale Domain-Specific Pretraining for Biomedical Vision-Language Processing Home Park Room #226 – Session Host: Whitney K. Huang   Ashwin Pananjady (GT ISYE/ECE) Statistics meets optimization: Sharp convergence predictions for iterative algorithms with random data Kirkwood Room #273 – Session Host: Yao Xie   Abhyuday Mandal (UGA Statistics) Modeling and Active Learning for Experiments with Quantitative-Sequence Factors Centennial Room #242 – Session Host: Yajun Mei
10:55am – 11:10am	Coffee Break
Invited Talks (Parallel Sessions)
11:10am − 11:50am	Ke Wang (Wells Fargo) An empirical study on imbalanced data impact and treatment Home Park Room #226 – Session Host: Whitney K. Huang   Vidya Muthukumar (GT ECE/ISYE) Classification versus regression in overparameterized regimes: Does the loss function matter? Kirkwood Room #273 – Session Host: Yao Xie   Julia Wrobel (Emory/Biostatistics) Analysis of wearable device data using functional data models Centennial Room #242 – Session Host: Yajun Mei
11:50am – 1:00pm	Lunch Break Midtown II – Lunch (Pick up food at Midtown IV)
11:50pm – 1:00pm	PhD Consortium at Lunch Midtown II – Lunch (Pick up food at Midtown IV)
1:00pm – 2:30pm	Poster Session Midtown II
Invited Talks (Parallel Sessions)
2:30pm – 3:10pm	Limin Peng (Emory/Biostatistics) Partial Quantile Tensor Regression with Applications to Neuroimaging Data Home Park Room #226 – Session Host: Whitney K. Huang   Tuo Zhao (GT ISYE/CSE) Steering the Attention of Large Language Models Kirkwood Room #273 – Session Host: Shihao Yang   Aditya Kumar Mishra (UGA/Statistics) Tree Aggregated Factor Regression Model with application to microbiome data analysis Centennial Room #242 – Session Host: Ashwin Pananjady
3:10pm – 3:25pm	Coffee Break
Invited Talks (Parallel Sessions)
3:25pm – 4:05pm	Chao Zhang (GT CSE/Amazon) LLMs as Autonomous Agents: Decision-Making through Adaptive Closed-Loop Planning Home Park Room #226 – Session Host: Whitney K. Huang   Molei Tao (GT MATH) Constrained Sampling and Constrained Diffusion Generative Modeling via Mirror Map Kirkwood Room #273 – Session Host: Tuo Zhao   Yichuan Zhao (GSU) Novel Empirical Likelihood Inference for the Mean Difference with Right-Censored Data Centennial Room #242 – Session Host: Ashwin Pananjady
4:05pm – 4:30pm	Coffee Break
4:30pm – 5:00pm	Closing remarks and award ceremony Midtown II