Seminar

Speaker: Bharat N. Anand, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School Title: “The Future of Education: Reflections from the Front Lines” Abstract: In...

Please join us for our upcoming Statistics Seminar on May 19th with Art B. Owen who is a Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. Title: Tie-Breaker Designs Abstract: Companies may offer incentives to their best customers and...

Title: Metropolized Knockoff Sampling Abstract: Model-X knockoffs is a wrapper that transforms essentially any feature importance measure into a variable selection algorithm, which discovers true effects while rigorously controlling the expected fraction...

Title: Recent developments on unbiased Monte Carlo methods Abstract: Monte Carlo estimators, based on Markov chains or interacting particle systems, are typically biased when run with a finite number of iterations (or a finite number of particles)...

Using big data in epidemiology for digital disease detection: Lessons learned and new directions

Data: A Love Story: How data science, and a great deal of tinkering, created the biggest dating site in the U.S.

Compute Faster and Learn Better: Machine Learning via Nonconvex Model-based Optimization

Probabilistic solution of differential equations for Bayesian uncertainty quantification and inference

Eigenvalues of Sums of Matrices from Free Probability Theory and Their Stochastic Dynamics