Location: 2203 SAS Hall, NC State Main Campus Title: Navigating the Complexities of Statistical Software Development Speaker: Ryan Lekivetz Director of Advanced Analytics R&D - JMP Statistical Discovery Abstract: Statistical software development is a multidisciplinary endeavor that spans product design, implementation, testing, documentation, and customer support. In this talk, I’ll share personal experiences from working…

Location: 2203 SAS Hall, NC State Main Campus Speaker: Elynn Chen Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics (TOPS) at NYU Stern School of Business Title: Transfer Q-Learning: Stationary and Non-Stationary MDPs Abstract: In dynamic decision-making scenarios across business, healthcare, and education, leveraging data from diverse populations can significantly enhance reinforcement learning (RL) performance for specific target…

Location: 2203 SAS Hall, NC State Main Campus Speaker:  Josh Startmer,  Founder of StatQuest Title: StatQuest: Origins plus musings on the intersection of Statistics and Machine Learning. ABSTRACT: Although closely related, subtle but important differences separate machine learning practitioners from statisticians. In this talk, we will use statistical linear models to highlight these differences. Then, we…

Location: 2203 SAS Hall, NC State Main Campus Speaker: Dr. Vadim Zipunnikov, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Title: Developing more sensitive endpoints by leveraging novel statistical methods for Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) data Abstract: Digital Health Technologies (DHT) are now used to continuously track physical activity and sleep in many clinical studies. This DHT data provides…

Location: 2203 SAS Hall, NC State Main Campus Title: Synthetic Populations, Personas and Agents Presenter: Georgiy Bobashev, Ph.D. Abstract: Many experiments and estimate are not feasible or unethical to conduct with real people but possible in silico with synthetic individuals. I will present the construction, and the use of geospatially explicit and statistically accurate person and household…

Location: 2203 SAS Hall, NC State Main Campus Title: Cracking the Code of the Unknown Virosphere: Detecting the Undetectable. Presenter:  Bonnie Hurwitz (BRC-NCSU) Abstract: Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth and infect all major clades of life, including bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. During infection, viruses can influence host biology, evolution, and ecosystem dynamics;…