Lectures and Addresses
Yaqi Duan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Professor Martin J. Wainwright. Her research interests lie broadly in the intersection of statistics and machine learning, in particular data-driven sequential decision making and reinforcement learning. In fall 2023,…
We are pleased to announce the following members have been selected to receive the 2022 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Yaqi Duan, Yuetian Luo, and Tudor Manole. The award will fund their travel to next year’s IMS Annual Meeting, which takes place at JSM Toronto (August 5–10, 2023).…
Next year there will be an impressive list of invited speakers at a range of IMS sponsored and co-sponsored meetings.
Jian Ding will give a Medallion Lecture at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes (University of Arizona, March 8–11).
Hongyu Zhao’s Medallion Lecture will be at the ENAR/IMS Spring Meeting (Nashville,…
Trevor Hastie, John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences, professor of statistics, and professor of biomedical data science in the school of humanities and sciences at Stanford University, was recently named the 2022 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer. He presented his lecture on “Cross-Validation in Model Selection and Assessment,” on…
Hongyu Zhao received his BS in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1990 and PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He is currently the Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics, and Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Professor of Genetics at Yale University.
Hongyu’s research interests…