Featured Speakers
Sunday, August 6
IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award Session
2:00 p.m.
Yaqi Duan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Optimal Policy Evaluation Using Kernel-Based Temporal Difference Methods
Yuetian Luo, University of Wisconsin Madison
Tensor-on-Tensor Regression: Riemannian Optimization, Over-Parameterization, Computational Barriers, and Their Interplay
Tudor Manole, Carnegie Mellon University
Plugin Estimation of Smooth Optimal Transport Maps
Monday, August 7
Medallion Lecture I
Ingrid Van Keilegom, KU Leuven
Copula-Based Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Dependent Censoring
8:30 a.m.
Wald Lecture I
Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
Seeking Boolean Interactions in Biomedicine and Proofs
10:30 a.m.
Medallion Lecture II
Runze Li, Penn State University
Feature Screening for Ultra-High Dimensional Data: Methods and Applications
2:00 p.m.
ASA President’s Invited Address
Robert Santos, US Census Bureau
4:00 p.m.
IMS Presidential Address
Peter Bühlmann, ETH Zurich
IMS: What Does It Stand For? What Could It Stand For?
8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, August 8
IMS Grace Wahba Award Lecture
Wing-Hung Wong, Stanford University
Causal Inference by Encoding Generative Modeling
10:30 a.m.
Blackwell Award Lecture
Ya’acov Ritov, University of Michigan
Minimax vs. (Empirical) Bayes Prediction
2:00 p.m.
Florence Nightingale David Award
Karen Bandeen-Roche, Johns Hopkins University
More Than Freedom from Disease: A Quest to Determine ‘Health’
2:00 p.m.
Wald Lecture II
Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
Sparse Dictionary Learning and Deep Learning in Practice and Theory
4:00 p.m.
Deming Lecture
Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
Small Area Estimation: A Personal Perspective
4:00 p.m.
ASA President’s Address and Awards
Dionne Price, US Food and Drug Administration
Our Mission in Action: Past, Present, and Future
8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 9
David R. Cox Foundations of Statistics Award
Nancy Reid, University of Toronto
The Importance of Foundations in Statistical Science
10:30 a.m.
Medallion Lecture III
Yingying Fan, University of Southern California
High-Dimensional Random Forests Estimation and Inference
10:30 a.m.
Medallion Lecture IV
Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne
Measurement Errors in Diet and Nutrition
2:00 p.m.
COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship
Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
Veridical Data Science Toward Trustworthy AI
4:00 p.m.
