Events

Summer Workshops

Dates	Workshop title	Speakers	Links
June 3, 2024	HKU 2024 Summer Workshop on Statistics and Data Analytics	Yongtao Guan, Iain Johnstone, Runze Li, Yingying Li, Qiman Shao, Min-ge Xie, Qiwei Yao	link
July 5, 2023	HKU 2023 Summer Workshop on Statistics and Data Analytics	Songxi Chen, Jiashun Jin, Regina Y. Liu, Annie Qu, Cunhui Zhang, Ji Zhu	link

Statistics Seminars in Acedemic Year 2024-2025

Dates	Speaker	Speaker institution	Seminar Title
Jan 9, 2025	Wenxin Zhou	University of Illinois Chicago	Nonparametric Expected Shortfall Regression with Tail-Robustness
Dec 4, 2024	Emma Jingfei Zhang	Emory University	Preferential Latent Space Models for Networks with Textual Edges
Dec 3, 2024	Elynn Chen	New York University	Transfer Q-Learning
Sep 23, 2024	James Stephen Marron	University of North Carolina	Data Integration Via Analysis of Subspaces (DIVAS)
Sep 9, 2024	C. F. Jeff Wu	Georgia Institute of Technology	A hierarchical expected improvement method for Bayesian optimization

Statistics Seminars in Acedemic Year 2023-2024

Dates	Speaker	Speaker institution	Seminar Title
Jun 19, 2024	Yingying Fan	University of Southern California	High-dimensional knockoffs inference for time series data
May 30, 2024	Runze Li	Pennsylvania State University	A New Test for high dimensional two-sample mean problems with consideration of correlation structure
May 22, 2024	Tengyuan Liang	The University of Chicago	Randomization Inference When N = 1
Mar 22, 2024	Jian Huang	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	A Bayesian Framework for Fine-Tuning Pretrained Diffusion Models
Mar 12, 2024	Pedro Oliveira	Nova School of Business and Economics	Unlocking Innovation in Healthcare: The Case of the Patient Innovation
Jan 30, 2024	Jing Ouyang	University of Michigan	Covariate-Adjusted Generalized Factor Analysis with Application to Testing Fairness
Jan 9, 2024	Hansheng Wang	Peking university	An Asymptotic Analysis of Random Partition Based Minibatch Momentum Methods for Linear Regression Models
Nov 24, 2023	Jinchi Lv	University of Southern California	Optimal Nonparametric Inference with Two-Scale Distributional Nearest Neighbors
Nov 17, 2023	Ming-Yen Cheng	Hong Kong Baptist University	Testing specification of distribution in stochastic frontier analysis
Nov 7, 2023	Zhenhua Lin	National University of Singapore	Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional and Functional Data via Bootstrapping
Oct 26, 2023	Jianqing Fan	Princeton University	Structural Deep Learning in Financial Asset Pricing

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