Conference Program, Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of UConn Statistics

All times are US Eastern Time (New York)
SU: Student Union
ITE: Information Technologies Engineering
For online participants, use Zoom Links: [Day 1, Friday, Oct. 14]; [Day 2, Saturday, Oct. 15]
Broadcasting Link for SU Theatre: [Day 1 only, Friday, Oct. 14] with streamed captions.

Friday, Oct. 14, 2022 (all day in SU Theatre)

• 08:00-10:45 (SU 104) Breakfast
• 09:00-09:15 (SU Theatre): Welcome (chair: Ming-Hui Chen)
  • Radenka Maric, President, University of Connecticut
  • Juli Wade, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut
  • Ronald Wasserstein, Executive Director, American Statistical Association (ASA)
• 09:15-10:15 (SU Theatre): Keynote Address (chair: Dipak Dey)
  • Nancy Reid, University Professor of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto: Distributions for parameters:
• 10:25-11:25 (SU Theatre): Makuch Lecture (chair: Victor Hugo Lachos)
  • Clarice Weinberg, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Using families to identify genetic and environmental contributors to young-onset disease
• 11:30-13:00 (SU Food Court): Lunch
• 11:30-13:00 (SU North/South Lobby): Travelers Poster Session/Book Display
• 13:00-14:00 (SU Theatre): Keynote Address (chair: Nalini Ravishanker)
  • David Blei, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Columbia University: The Blessings of Multiple Causes
• 14:10-16:00 (SU Theatre): Invited Session I on Data Science (chair: Yao Zheng)
  • Malini Iyengar, Head, Respiratory, Oncology and Clin Pharm Statistics, Teva Pharmaceuticals: Basket Trial for Dose Response Characterization
  • Patrick J Cantwell, Chief of the Decennial Statistical Studies Division, U.S. Census Bureau: Measuring Coverage of the 2020 U.S. Census: Methods and Results
  • Brien Aronov, Lead Data Scientist, Business Insurance Analytics & Research at Travelers Insurance: The Importance of Statistical Fundamentals in Insurance
  • Marcos Oliveira Prates, Federal University of Minas Gerais and President of the Brazilian Statistics Association: Is augmentation effective to improve prediction in unbalanced datasets?
  • Nathan Lally, AVP Data Science at HSB (Munich Re Group): Causal Inference with IoT Time Series Data in Support of Insurance Loss Mitigation--A Collaboration between HSB and UConn
• 16:10-17:10 (SU Theatre): Career Panel on Data Science
  • Edan Bar, Software Engineer, Bloomberg
  • Ved Deshpande, Machine Learning Engineer, Spotify
  • Ron Wasserstein, Executive Director, American Statistical Association
  • Yishu Xue (moderator), Data Scientist, Google
  • Haining Zhang, Data Scientist, Travelers
• 18:00-21:00 (Alumni Center): Banquet (with video greetings)

Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022 (morning at SU 304; afternoon at ITE C80)

• 08:00-10:45 (SU 304): Breakfast
• 08:50-10:30 (SU 304): Invited Session II on Data Science (chair: Neil Spencer)
  • Steve Leeds, VP Business Analytics, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals: Using Bernstein-Bezier Curves to fit product uptake and event impacts, while achieving specific short and long-range performance expectations
  • Xia Wang, Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati: Joint hierarchical Gaussian process model with applications in cystic fibrosis studies
  • Chun Wang, Data Science Director, Liberty Mutual Insurance: My Journey of Applying Ph.D. Research to Industrial Data Science Job
  • Zoe Hua, Director of Biostatistics, Servier Pharmaceuticals: Data science technique applied in real world clinical trial problems: Hierarchical Semi-parametric Bayesian Modeling in Patient Screening and Enrollment Dynamic Prediction for Multicenter Clinical Trials
• 10:45-12:00 (SU 304): Panel discussion on UConn Statistics Department: Past, Present, and Future (chair, Ofer Harel )
  • Ming-Hui Chen | Dipak Dey | Alan Gelfand | Joeseph Glaz | Tim Kileen | Uwe Koehn | Nitis Mukhopadhyay | Robert Riffenburgh
• 12:00-13:15 (SU 304ABC): Lunch
• 13:30-14:20 (ITE C80): Statistical Consulting Services (chair: Xiaojing Wang)
  • Timothy Moore, Director of Statistical Consulting Services, University of Connecticut: Statistical Consulting at UConn
  • Eric Baron: Graduate Consultant, University of Connecticut: Bayesian detection of bias in peremptory challenges using historical strike data
  • Jung Wun Lee: Graduate Consultant, University of Connecticut: A latent class analysis among substance-involved families in child welfare
• 14:20-15:20 (ITE C80): Career Panel on Pharmaceuticals
  • Joe Cappelleri, Executive Director of Biostatistics, Pfizer
  • Dooti Roy, Statistician, Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Naitee Ting, Director, Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Yaohua Zhang (moderator), Associate Director, Vertex
• 15:40-16:40 (ITE C80): Distinguished Alumni Lecture (chair: Kun Chen)
  • Bani Malick, University Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Texas A&M University: Bayesian local models using partitions
• 16:40-17:00 (ITE C80): Award Ceremony (chair: Zhiyi Chi)
  • Student poster award
  • Department student awards
• 17:30 (SU 316-317): Game Night with Snacks (chair: Eric Baron)

Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022

• 09:00 (CLAS Quad): Field day with breakfast (chair: Eric Baron)