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Applications
Computational Statistics
Computing Science
Data Science
Data Visualization
Machine Learning
Saturday, May 19
Exhibits Open
SDSS Hours
Sat, May 19, 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Regency Ballroom Foyer
Registration
SDSS Hours
Sat, May 19, 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration
CS55 -
New Directions in Rank Data Aggregation and Modeling
Invited
Sat, May 19, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Grand Ballroom D
Organizer(s): Michael G. Schimek, Medical University of Graz
Chair(s): William F. Wieczorek, SUNY Buffalo State
8:30 AM
The Bayesian Mallows Model for Analysing Ranks and Preference Data: From Genomics to Recommendation Systems
Valeria Vitelli, University of Oslo
9:00 AM
Detecting and Interpreting Median Constrained Bucket Orders Within the Kemeny Axiomatic Framework
Antonio D'Ambrosio, University of Naples Federico II
9:30 AM
Discussant
Michael G. Schimek, Medical University of Graz
CS56 -
Data Science and Machine Learning in Naval Applications
Invited
Sat, May 19, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Grand Ballroom G
Organizer(s): Jeffrey L. Solka, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Chair(s): Avory Bryant, Naval Surface Warfare Center
8:30 AM
Using Found Data – A Cautionary Tale
Presentation
David A. Johannsen, Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren
9:00 AM
NLP-assisted Scientometric Horizon Scanning
Stuart Bingham, NSWCDD AM&DA, Code A43
9:30 AM
Human Motion Analysis Using Deep Learning for Potential Threats
Alex Feild, Naval Surface Warfare Center
CS57 -
Analyses Using Complex Models
Invited
Sat, May 19, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Regency Ballroom A
Organizer(s): Yasmin H. Said, George Mason University
Chair(s): Wendy Martinez, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:30 AM
Robust Multivariate Outlier Diagnostics in Chemometrics with Application to Spectrally Overlapping Drugs
Presentation
Aylin Alin, Dokuz Eylul University
9:00 AM
Statistical Learning in Big Data Analytics
S. Ejaz Ahmed, Brock University
9:30 AM
Recovery of Ruin Probability and Value at Risk from the Scaled Laplace Transform Inversion
Presentation
Adetokunbo Fadahunsi, West Virginia University
CS58 -
Data science in Climate and Weather Research
Invited
Sat, May 19, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Lake Fairfax A
Organizer(s): Stephan R. Sain, Jupiter
Chair(s): Soren Harner, MuleSoft
8:30 AM
Large and Non-stationary Spatial Fields: Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate Models
Presentation
Douglas Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research
9:00 AM
Regional Climate Model Assessment via Spatio-temporal Modeling
Peter Craigmile, The Ohio State University
9:30 AM
Statistical Downscaling and Uncertainty Quantification with Bayesian Deep Learning
Thomas Vandal, Northeastern University
CS59 -
Visualizing Complex Data
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Grand Ballroom F
Chair(s): Jim Harner, West Virginia University
8:30 AM
Monitoring a survey with Google
Oscar Centeno Mora, University of Costa Rica
8:45 AM
Quantitative Evaluation of Manufacturing Visualization via Data Fusion
Presentation
Xiaoyu Chen, Virginia Tech
9:00 AM
Mixed Type Distribution Plots
Presentation
Christopher Weld, College of William & Mary
9:15 AM
Insights into Reshoring from Big Data Visualization of Social Media Posts
Presentation
Megan Eileen Moore, North Carolina State University
9:30 AM
Discussant
Jim Harner, West Virginia University
CS60 -
Time-based Models
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Lake Fairfax B
Chair(s): Suchismita Goswami, Computational Data Science, George Mason University
8:30 AM
Bankruptcy Prediction Using Selective Under-Sampling and Multiple-Year Data: A Study on North American Companies
Son Nguyen, Bryant University
8:45 AM
Looking Into Recurrent Event Data
Bommae Kim, University of Virginia Health System
9:00 AM
Artificial Neural Networks and Time Series Decomposition for the Flood Prediction in Mohawk Watershed, New York
Katerina Tsakiri, Rider University
9:15 AM
Causal Inference from Observational Time Series Data
Iris Tu, LinkedIn
9:30 AM
Detection of Excessive Activities in Time Series of Graphs Using Scan Statistics
Suchismita Goswami, Computational Data Science, George Mason University
9:45 AM
Floor Discussion
CS61 -
Data Sciences Applications for Critical Health Issues II
Invited
Sat, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom F
Organizer(s): Kelly S. Marczynski, SUNY Buffalo State
Chair(s): Karl Wende, Center for Health & Social Research at Buffalo State
10:30 AM
Assessing the Impact of Weighted and Unweighted Alcohol Availability
Presentation
Alan M Delmerico, Center for Health and Social Research at Buffalo State
11:00 AM
Survey of College Student Substance Abuse Problems: Role of Access and Norms
Jonathan Lindner, Center for Health and Social Research at SUNY Buffalo State
11:30 AM
Geographic Assessment of Adolescent Activity Space
William F. Wieczorek, SUNY Buffalo State
CS62 -
Machine Learning for Complex Data
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom D
Chair(s): David Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center
10:30 AM
A Classification Tree for Functional Data
Jan Gertheiss, Clausthal University of Technology
10:45 AM
Optimal Estimation for Varying Coefficient Model with Longitudinal Data
Xiaowu Dai, University of Wisconsin Madison
11:00 AM
Regression Trees and Ensemble Methods for Multivariate Outcomes
Evan Lee Reynolds, University of Michigan
11:15 AM
XPCA: Interval-Censored Copula Principal Component Analysis for Discrete and Continuous Features
Clifford Anderson-Bergman, Sandia National Laboratories
11:30 AM
The Two-to-Infinity Norm and Singular Subspace Geometry With Applications to High-Dimensional Statistics
Joshua Cape, Johns Hopkins University
11:45 AM
Floor Discussion
CS63 -
Data Science in Practice
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom G
Chair(s): Soren Harner, MuleSoft
10:30 AM
From Statistics to Data Science Startup: Transformation Within a Large Research Organization
Presentation
Gayle S Bieler, RTI International
10:45 AM
Applied Techniques for Machine Learning with Limited Data
Andrew Hoblitzell, IUPUI; Andrew Hoblitzell, Purdue University
11:00 AM
Data Moves in Data Science Education
Presentation
Tim Erickson, Epistemological Engineering
11:15 AM
Spatial Analysis of Crowdsourced Mobile Data
Presentation
Arnab Chakraborty, North Carolina State Univeristy
11:30 AM
The SOBER Algorithm: How to Squeeze Out Huge but Sparse Data for Making Individual Predictions
Barbara Hildegard Wolf, GfK SE
11:45 AM
Floor Discussion
CS64 -
Bioinformatics
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Regency Ballroom A
Chair(s): Suchismita Goswami, Computational Data Science, George Mason University
10:30 AM
Method Selection and Graphical Network: Applications to Gene Expression Data
Presentation
Demba Fofana, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
10:45 AM
Scalable and Flexible Probabilistic PCA for Large-Scale Genetic Variation Data
Presentation
Sriram Sankararaman, UCLA
11:00 AM
Type-I Error Rate of a One-Way ANOVA in the Case of a Large Number of Factors With Small Replications
Sharad Silwal, Jefferson College of Health Sciences
11:15 AM
Big Data Distributed System for Phenome and Genome Management and Analysis in a Large Health System
Wendy S.W. Wong, Inova Translational Medicine Institute
11:30 AM
Floor Discussion
CS65 -
Scientific and Financial Modeling
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Lake Fairfax A
Chair(s): Adetokunbo Fadahunsi, West Virginia University
10:30 AM
Apply Multivariate Statistics to study the Chocolate Science and Cardiovascular or Neurovascular Disease
Patrick Giuliano, MorrillLearning Center
10:45 AM
Probabilistic Particle-Filter Modeling of Shark Movement for Behavioral and Ecological Inference
Presentation
Samuel Ackerman, Temple University
11:00 AM
Anomaly Detection in News Articles for Biosurveillance
Karl Pazdernik, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
11:15 AM
Data Driven Portfolio Optimization Utilizing Machine Learning
Presentation
Melinda Hsieh, Rider University
11:30 AM
Conditional Granger Causality Tests in Quantile Regression
Presentation
Hong Cheng, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance
11:45 AM
Floor Discussion
CS66 -
Business Analytics
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Lake Fairfax B
Chair(s): Redouane Betrouni, George Mason University
10:30 AM
Modeling Emotions in Behavioral Big Data: Self-Selection, Impact Measures and Counterfactual Approach
Furio Camillo, University of Bologna
10:45 AM
Customer Perception Analysis using Statistical Modeling
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Caterpillar Inc
11:00 AM
Identifying and Utilizing Research Topics in Conference Abstracts
Stanislav Kolenikov, Abt Associates
11:15 AM
Forecasting Accuracy of Topic Modeling Techniques with Online Reviews: A Benchmark Study
Yuan Cheng, Cornell University
11:30 AM
Lookalike Audience Modeling with SVD and Cosine-Similarity
Presentation
Sam Hawala, Resonate-Networks
11:45 AM
Predicting the Sale Price of Homes
Presentation
Matea Milojkovic, Winthrop University
CS67 -
Feature Selection
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Grand Ballroom D
Chair(s): Soren Harner, MuleSoft
1:15 PM
Statistical Testing for Feature Relevance: The HARVEST Algorithm
Presentation
Herbert I Weisberg, Causalytics LLC
1:30 PM
Supervised Clustering via an Implicit Network for High Dimensional Data
Brandon Woosuk Park, George Mason University
1:45 PM
Variable Selection for the Recurrent Event Data with Broken Adaptive Ridge Regression
Dayu Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia
2:00 PM
Feature Selection in L0 Norm: A Viable Approach
Ana Maria Kenney, Pennsylvania State University
2:15 PM
Robust Surrogate Ridge Estimators for Linear Regression Model Based on an M-Estimator and MM-Estimator
Presentation
Osama A Hussien, Alexandria University Egypt
2:30 PM
Floor Discussion
CS68 -
Data Science in Health
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Grand Ballroom G
Chair(s): Kelly S Marczynski, SUNY Buffalo State
1:15 PM
Classifying Health Insurance Type from Survey Responses Using Enrollment Data
Presentation
Joanne Pascale, US Census Bureau
1:30 PM
The Story of Goldilocks and Three Twitter APIs
Yoonsang Kim, NORC at the University of Chicago
1:45 PM
An Analysis of Crash-Safety Ratings and the True Assessment of Injuries by Vehicle
Cody Philips, Indiana University
2:00 PM
Association of Primary Tumor Site With Mortality in Patients Receiving Bevacizumab and Cetuximab for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Presentation
Mayada Aljehani, Loma Linda University
2:15 PM
A Proposed Framework to Assess the Sensitivity of Network-Based Estimands to Non-Ignorable Non-Response, for Networks Ascertained With Non-Ignorable Sampling
Kenneth J Wilkins, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
2:30 PM
Floor Discussion
CS69 -
Image and High-Dimensional Processing
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Regency Ballroom A
Chair(s): Adetokunbo Fadahunsi, West Virginia University
1:15 PM
Analysis of Diagnostic Tests in the CTC Images for Detecting Colon Polyps
Krishna K Saha, Central CT State University
1:30 PM
Sequential Multi-Aspect Monitoring Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data
Amitava Mukherjee, XLRI - Xavier School of Management
1:45 PM
Robust Analysis of High Dimensional Data
Quefeng Li, UNC Chapel Hill
2:00 PM
Anisotropic Functional Laplace Deconvolution
Presentation
RASIKA RAJAPAKSHAGE, University of Central Florida
2:15 PM
Bayesian Variable Selection Using Spike and Slab Prior With Application to High Dimensional EEG Data by Local Modeling
Shariq Mohammed, University of Connecticut
2:30 PM
Floor Discussion
CS70 -
Public Health Applications
Contributed
Sat, May 19, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Lake Fairfax A
Chair(s): Redouane Betrouni, George Mason University
1:15 PM
A Comprehensive Analysis of Trends and Determinants of HIV/AIDS Knowledge Among the Bangladeshi Women Based on Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys, 2007–2014
Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
1:30 PM
Markov Process Multistate Modeling of Large Data
Marepalli B Rao, University of Cincinnati
1:45 PM
Approaches to Investigating Multimorbidity
Presentation
Cynthia Sue Crowson, Mayo Clinic
2:00 PM
A New Framework for Re-identification Risk Estimation in Complex Healthcare Data
Lei Li, George Mason University
2:15 PM
Application of Algorithms With Serial Hepatitis C RNA Tests to Predict Treatment and Sustained Virologic Response Among Patients Infected With Chronic Hepatitis C.
Presentation
Ademola B Osinubi, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2:30 PM
Floor Discussion
GS04 -
Closing Remarks
General Session
Sat, May 19, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Grand Ballroom D
Organizer(s): Jim Harner, West Virginia University; Yasmin H. Said, George Mason University
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