Event Date:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Event Date Details:
Wednesday April 16, 2025
Event Location:
- HSSB 1174
Event Price:
FREE
Event Contact:
Speakers: Prof Alex Franks, Prof Wendy Meiring, Prof Yuedong Wang
- Department Seminar
Abstract: Three faculty members (Alex Franks, Wendy Meiring, Yuedong Wang) will introduce their research projects. This seminar is intended to introduce research directions / projects of some PSTAT faculties and help junior graduate students to find interesting research topics. Therefore, we would highly encourage all junior graduate students to attend the seminar.
Bio of the speakers (from their websites):
Alex Franks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include causal inference and sensitivity analysis, covariance estimation, missing data and measurement error, high throughput applications in biology (“omics”), Bayesian statistics and sports.
Wendy Meiring is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof Meiring's research interests include Statistics of space-time processes, evaluation of geophysical models, environmental statistics.
Yuedong Wang is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current interests include machine learning, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, smoothing splines, mixed-effects models, state-space models, survival analysis, longitudinal data, functional data analysis, and biostatistics.
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