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Thursday, October 19

Thu, Oct 19, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Vicino Ballroom

GS1 - Opening Remarks and Plenary Presentation I
General Session

Chair(s): Kim Sellers, Georgetown University

Making Your Mark

View Presentation Susmita Datta, University of Florida

Thu, Oct 19, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom D

CS02 - Data Science and Women’s Colleges (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Ben Baumer, Smith College

2:50 PM

Data Science at Women’s Colleges
Maia Averett, Mills College; Andrea Foulkes, Mount Holyoke College; Brandeis Marshall, Spelman College; Amelia McNamara, Smith College; Sydne Record, Bryn Mawr College

Thu, Oct 19, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Aventine Ballroom G

P1 - Opening Mixer, Speed Poster 1, and Speed Mentoring sponsored by Wiley
Poster

Data Science for the Thoughtful Home: Innovation at Nest
Rosie Buchanan, Nest

Predicting Breakoffs in Web Surveys
Felicitas Mittereder, University of Michigan, ISR

Statistical Allocation for Epsilon (SAFE) and Its Application in Differentially Private Release and Analysis of Voter Registration Data
Claire McKay Bowen, University of Notre Dame

An Overview of Network Sampling Methods: On- and Off-Line
Haema Nilakanta, University of Minnesota

Shrinking networks: a spatial analysis of bank branch closures
Anna Elizabeth Tranfaglia, Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Probabilistic Predictive Principal Component Analysis for Spatially-Misaligned and High-Dimensional Air Pollution Data
Phuong T Vu, University of Washington

Identifying Drivers of Spatial Variability with Bayesian Occupancy Models
Staci Hepler, Wake Forest University

Retrospective Genetic Association Testing with Binary Traits in Structured Samples Using a MCMC-based Approach
JOELLE MBATCHOU, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Speaking for Herself: Changing Gender Roles in Survey Response
Amy Marie Oksol, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank

Demographic Profiling using Census Data and Anonymized & Aggregated Mobility Network Data
Olivia Hong, AT&T Research Labs

Determining Unique Sellers on Online Anonymous Marketplaces
Xiao Hui Tai, Carnegie Mellon University

Structure prediction and network analysis of enzymes from carnivorous plant, Drosera capensis
megha hemant unhelkar, UC Irvine

Small-Area Estimation as a Tool for Supplementing Survey Data and Better Data Utilization
Yueyan Wang, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Measuring Badness Across the Web
Julia Nalven, Google

Mining Mental Health Surveys From Tech Workers
Mikaela A Miller, Children's Mercy Hospital

Mixture Models for Grouped Insurance Loss Data in Presence of Partial Information
Tatjana Miljkovic, Miami University

Comparison of Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Models for a Multiethnic Patient Population
Alyssa Hope Columbus, University of California, Irvine

Defining transcriptional activity states by leveraging massive, public RNAseq datasets
Ayshwarya Subramanian, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Friday, October 20

Fri, Oct 20, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom G

P2 - Continental Breakfast and Speed Poster 2 sponsored by Bank of America
Poster

Research transparency and reproducibility in social sciences research: The role of women data scientists
Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, United Nations University/ Maastricht University

STEM-ulating Interest Among Girls
Maureen Alice McConnell-Martin, Experis

Lunar Effects on University of Wisconsin Eau Claire on-campus Housing Incidents
Thao Tran, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Understanding Peace Processes through Social Media
Aastha Nigam, University of Notre Dame

'Youth, Globalization, and Extremism in the Middle East': Advancing Data Science in Research, Analysis, and Decision-Making
Natascha Camille Bolden, California State University San Bernardino and UCI Extension

Dental Carries Assessment via a Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Model
Evercita Cuevas Eugenio, University of Notre Dame

Communicating results of functional data analyses with interactive graphics
Julia Wrobel, Columbia University

Women in Computer and Mathematical Occupations: An American Community Survey Perspective
Xuan T Pham, Rockhurst University

Reproducible research with R: application of tumor registry data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.
Zhanna Galochkina, UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center

How to Effectively Communicate Commonly Misinterpreted Statistical Concepts
Paavni Rattan, Amazon

Using PechaKucha Presentations in the Statistics Classroom
Jennifer Ann Morrow, University of Tennessee

Crowd Sourced Panel Retention: Recruiting, Measuring, and Rewarding
Rachel Hacker, Nielsen

Jupyter Notebook for Reproducible Research. A Case Study: Predicting Breast Cancer Survivability.
Lorinette Saphire Wirth, Saint Louis University

Explain, Encourage, and Engage - Reaching your audience
Darlene C W Lopez, LeCroy & Milligan Associates

Data Science and UX to Understand Users' Experiences and Perceptions
Jennifer Romano Bergstrom, Facebook

Transferability of Statistical Computational Thinking and Abilities to Field Related Applications: A Phenomenological Study of Ecology and LRES Graduate Students
Allison Shay Theobold, Montana State University

How To Use Data to Influence People and Win Friends
Sydeaka Watson, AT&T Chief Data Office

Fri, Oct 20, 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Vicino Ballroom

GS2 - Plenary Presentation II
General Session

Chair(s): Ji-Hyun Lee, University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Statistical Leadership in the Federal Government

View Presentation Jeri Mulrow, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Fri, Oct 20, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom C

CS07 - Choices, Challenges, and Opportunities
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Natasa Rajicic, Cytel Inc.

10:00 AM

Take Control of Your Career Path

View Presentation Heather Kopetskie, Rho, Inc.

10:45 AM

Reflections on a Women-Organized Conference
Beatriz Etchegaray Garcia, IBM Research

Fri, Oct 20, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom F

CS08 - Paths to Leadership (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Ellen S. Snyder, Merck & Co., Inc.

10:05 AM

Paths to Leadership
Amanda L. Golbeck, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Amarjot Kaur, Merck & Co., Inc.; Bhramar Mukherjee, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Fri, Oct 20, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom C

CS11 - Creating Positive Work Environments
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Shanthi Sethuraman, Eli Lilly and Company

11:45 AM

Creating a Safer Work Environment with Data Analytics and Microsoft Azure
Sarmila Basu, Microsoft

12:30 PM

It’s the Little Things That Matter: The Role of Mentoring on Nurturing the Next Generation of Data Scientists at AT&T
Lauren Savage, AT&T Chief Data Office

Fri, Oct 20, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom F

CS13 - Knowledge, Community, Influence
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Jie Cui, Eli Lilly and Company

11:45 AM

Comparing and Contrasting Two Generations of Women Working in the Fields of Mathematics and Statistics

View Presentation Michelle M Wiest, University of Idaho

12:30 PM

Teaching Upper-Level Statistics Courses Through a Shared/Hybrid Model

View Presentation Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Vassar College

Fri, Oct 20, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Aventine Ballroom D

CS16 - 'Too young' to lead…but stepping up anyway: shifting the leadership pendulum in (bio)statistics and data science (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Emma K T Benn, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

2:35 PM

'Too Young' to Lead … but Stepping Up Anyway: Shifting the Leadership Pendulum in (Bio)Statistics and Data Science
Leslie Ain McClure, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health; Merlise A Clyde, Duke University; Dionne L Price, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Elizabeth A Stuart, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Fri, Oct 20, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom G

P3 - Speed Poster 3 and Refreshments sponsored by AT&T
Poster

An Introduction to Developing R Packages
Christina P Knudson, University of St. Thomas

Sentiment-Based Overlapping Community Discovery
FULYA OZCAN, UC IRVINE

Cross-Market Unilateral Effects of Mergers on Multimarket Oligopolies
Jessica R S Dutra, The University of Kansas

Measuring Innovation from Patent Data using Network Analysis
Tiffany Schleeter, Deloitte

Maternal Mortality in the United States, 1960-2015
Nicole Victoria DeVille, University of California, Irvine

Edge Effects: Some Notes on the Value of Interdisciplinarity in Analytics Development
Christine T Wolf, UC Irvine / IBM Research

A Day in the Life of a Biostatistician in Tech: Flatiron Health
Elizabeth Margaret Sweeney, Flatiron Health

Causal Mediation Analysis in the combined presence of treatment noncompliance and missing outcomes
Soojin Park, University of California, Riverside

“I’m Not a Real [Fill in the Blank]”: Imposter Syndrome (And What to Do About It)
Alisha Heather Creel, Abt Associates

Moving Out from Behind the Scenes: Opportunities for master’s level statisticians to effectively influence academic research
Tawny W Boyce, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

Women in Data Science – A Support Role Perspective
Diane Rondeau, Fresenius Medical Care - North America

Engaging Undergraduates in Bayesian Thinking
Alicia Anne Johnson, Macalester College

Beyond ANOVA: Moving Collaborators Past the Statistical Basics
Caitlin Cunningham, Le Moyne College

“One servant, two masters”, survival guide for a successful independent statistician
Tingting Li, Advanced Clinical

Toward a score-based approach to compare shoe sole impressions
Soyoung Park, Iowa State University

From Academia to Management in Applied Data Science
Carissa L Shafto, Galen College of Nursing

Fri, Oct 20, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Vicino Ballroom

GS3 - Celebrating Women in Statistics and Data Science Banquet and Keynote Presentation Sponsored by Duke University and Google
General Session

Chair(s): Dalene Stangl, Duke University

Lessons and Strategies Distilled from Life Events: My Professional Story

View Presentation Donna Brogan, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Saturday, October 21

Sat, Oct 21, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom G

P4 - Continental Breakfast and Speed Poster 4 sponsored by Bank of America
Poster

Lean Data Science: How to Productionize Machine Learning
Claire Lebarz, Turo

Spatiotemporal Bias Correction of Sea Ice Predictions
Hannah M Director, University of Washington

Statistical and Computational Methods for Analyzing Accelerometer Data
Selene Xu, UC San Diego

Using State Space Models to Track Measles Infections
Kirsten E Eilertson, Penn State

Model Adequacy Methods for Functional Regression Models
Melody Denhere, University of Mary Washington

Comparison of Machine learning algorithms for imbalanced multi-level classification of Alzheimer’s disease using MRI data
Poulami Barman, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, MN

Clustering Coefficient Analysis through Small-Scale Diffusion Testing
Claire Evelyn Kelling, Penn State

Combining Inference from Paired and Unpaired Data
Namrata Pradip Deshpande, Cytel Statistical Software & Services

Efficient Bounds for Best Subset Selection using Mixed Integer Linear Programming
Ana Maria Kenney, Pennsylvania State University

Dynamic Latent Factor Modeling of UN Voting Networks
Bomin Kim, The Pennsylvania State University

Manifold Data Analysis with Applications to High Frequency 3D Imaging
Hyun Bin Kang, The Pennsylvania State University

Coherent Set Mining in Binary Data
Kelly Nicole Bodwin, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Biomedical Time Series Representations in the Presence of Structured Information
Madalina Fiterau, Stanford University

Integration of Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Boosting for Gene Expression Data
Nusrat Jahan, James Madison University

Mosaic Plots in the 'ggplot2' Framework
Haley Jeppson, Iowa State University

Evaluating Methods to Address Auto-correlation and Over-dispersion in Time Series Mortality Data
Caprichia Jeffers, Emory University

Approximate Confidence-Distribution Computing: An Effective Likelihood-free Method with Statistical Guarantees
Suzanne Mary Thornton, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Sat, Oct 21, 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Vicino Ballroom

GS4 - Plenary Presentation III
General Session

Chair(s): Satkartar Kinney, RTI International

Questions I Should Have Asked …

View Presentation Bonnie Ray, Unaffiliated

Sat, Oct 21, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom D

CS20 - Call Her Madam President: A Discussion with Women Leaders In The Statistics Community (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Kim Sellers, Georgetown University

10:05 AM

Call Her Madam President: A Discussion with Women Leaders In The Statistics Community

View Presentation Scarlett Bellamy, Drexel University; Anne Lindblad, The Emmes Corporation; Nalini Ravishanker, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics

Sat, Oct 21, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom E

CS22 - Celebrating our Influence
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Karen Moran Jackson, Soka University of America

10:00 AM

Statisticians at the Food and Drug Administration: Influence and Impact
Dionne L Price, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

10:45 AM

Navigating Minefields to Claim the Right to Exercise Creative Thinking
Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri

Sat, Oct 21, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom C

CS24 - Communicating Science: Strategies for Public Engagement
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Brianna C. Heggeseth, Williams College

11:45 AM

Statistics and Data Science Communication: Tips and Tricks for a New Model of Engagement
Regina Nuzzo, Gallaudet University

12:30 PM

Student Opportunities to Build Community: Perspectives from Women in the Vanderbilt Biostatistics Graduate Program
Jacquelyn Elizabeth Neal, Vanderbilt University

Sat, Oct 21, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom E

CS25 - Building a Successful Career: Strategies and Insights
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Gill Ward, Google

11:45 AM

Career Development Strategies for Statistical Researchers and Data Scientists
Susan Paddock, RAND Corporation

12:30 PM

Stewardship of Statistics and Data Science: Building My Community, My Career, and Myself
Rochelle E Tractenberg, Georgetown University

Sat, Oct 21, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom D

CS26 - Shaping our Community: Past, Present, and Future
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Christina P Knudson, University of St. Thomas

11:45 AM

Adventures of a Statistician: Communities Across Countries and Jobs
Anna K. Panorska, University of Nevada Reno

12:30 PM

Practical challenges of statistical leadership for early-career statisticians
Lauren Hund, Sandia National Laboratories

Sat, Oct 21, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom F

CS27 - The Imposter Syndrome (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Cathy Furlong, Statistics Without Borders

11:50 AM

Discussion of the Impostor Syndrome

View Presentation Cathy Furlong, Statistics Without Borders; Darcy S. Morris, U.S. Census Bureau; Kim Sellers, Georgetown University; Nawar Shara, Georgetown University

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