Program – WuFest

Events will take place at the Historic Academy of Medicine at Georgia Tech

Friday, May 10, 2019
Time	Event
07:45-08:45	Continental Breakfast
08:45-09:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks Edwin Romeijn (Georgia Institute of Technology) Roshan Joseph (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Session 1: Engineering Statistics (Chair: Jan Shi, Georgia Institute of Technology)
09:00-10:30	S. Jack Hu (University of Michigan) Evolving Paradigms of Manufacturing and the Role of Statistics Yu Ding (Texas A&M University) Computer Experiments for Reliability Assessment in Wind Energy Applications Bianca Maria Colosimo (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Modeling and Monitoring Methods for 3D Spatial and Image Data
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
Session 2: Statistical Applications (Chair: Xinwei Deng, Virginia Tech)
11:00-12:30	Agus Sudjianto (Wells Fargo Bank) Machine Learning in Financial Modeling José Francisco Soares (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Measuring Educational Inequality in Brazilian Basic Education System Michael Hamada (Los Alamos National Laboratory) On Analyzing Experiments in Industrial Statistical Applications
12:30-13:30	Lunch
Session 3: Design of Experiments (Chair: Robert Mee, University of Tennessee)
13:30-15:00	Bradley Jones (JMP) Construction, Properties, and Analysis of Supersaturated Designs Based on Kronecker Products David Banks (Duke University) Design of Cost-Effective Experiments William Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Using Prior Information for Intelligent Factor Allocation and Design Selection
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
Session 4: Fundamentals of Experimentation and Inference (Chair: Frederick K. H. Phoa, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
15:30-17:00	Tirthankar Dasgupta (Rutgers University) Fisher’s Randomization Test: A Confidence Distribution Perspective and Applications to Massive Experiments Art Owen (Stanford University) Two Examples of Partial Experimentation Samuel Kou (Harvard University) Learning From Big Medical Data: Statistical Analysis on Electronic Health Data
Poster Session (Chair: Yajun Mei, Georgia Institute of Technology)
17:00-18:00	Poster Sessions
Banquet Dinner at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center (Chair: Peter Chien, University of Wisconsin)
18:30-20:30	Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University) Is Jeff Wu a Data Scientist? Comments

Saturday, May 11, 2019
Time	Event
08:00-09:00	Continental Breakfast
Session 5: Optimal Design (Chair: Lulu Kang, Illinois Institute of Technology)
09:00-10:30	Max Morris (Iowa State University) Central Composite Designs for Multiple Responses with Different Models Abhyuday Mandal (University of Georgia) Optimal Designs for Generalized Linear Models David Woods (University of Southampton) Design of Experiments with Functional Independent Variables
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
Session 6: Uncertainty Quantification (Chair: Harvey Qu, Oakland University)
11:00-12:30	Ray-Bing Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Global Optimization of Expensive Functions Using Adaptive Radial Basis Functions Based Surrogate Model via Uncertainty Quantification Hongquan Xu (UC Los Angeles) Recent Advances on Space-Filling Designs Ying Hung (Rutgers University) Computer Experiments with Binary Time Series and Applications to Cell Biology: Modeling, Estimation, and Calibration
12:30-12:45	Farewell and Boxed lunch