Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: The Winner’s Curse in Data-Driven Decision Making: Evidence and Solutions
Sikun Xu, PhD Candidate in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
Past Events
Randomization Inference with Sample Attrition
Xinran Li, Assistant Professor of Statistics at The University of Chicago
Simon Hall, Room 023
Labor Day 2026 - no classes
Conditional formulation of Gaussian systems on spatial networks with irregularly distributed points
Debashis Mondal, Associate Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Open House: New 4+1 Master's with Concentration in Applied Data Science
Umrath Lounge
Learning to Map Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
Nathan Jacobs, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
First Day of Classes, Fall 2026
Last Summer Class Session Ends - Summer 2026
WashU Alumni and Friends Reception at the 2026 JSM in Boston
Co-sponsored by the WashU Department of Statistics and Data Science and the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics (I2DB)
Westin Boston Seaport District | W-Grand Ballroom Section D
Independence Day Holiday Observed 2026 - no classes
PhD Oral Thesis Defense: Statistical Inference of Volatility Estimation in the Presence of Jumps
Tianwei Zhou, PhD Candidate in Statistics and Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Memorial Day Holiday 2026 - no classes
First Summer Class Session Begins - Summer 2026
Commencement 2026
Advances in Digital Innovation Across Arts & Sciences and Beyond
Join us to spark new collaborations and project ideas.
Holmes Lounge
Third Year Candidacy Presentation: Selective Inference for Interaction Trees
Zhichen Xu, PhD Student in Statistics at Washington University in St. Louis
Zoom
Reading Days and Finals, Spring 2026
Last Day of Classes, Spring 2026
Third Year Candidacy Presentation: Methodological Contributions to Change Point Detection and Synthetic Data Analysis
Shourjo Chakraborty, PhD Student at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 431
Unifying regression-based and design-based causal inference in time-series experiments and crossover experiments
Peng Ding, Associate Professor of Statistics at Berkeley University
Seigle Hall, Room 208
Third Year Candidacy Presentation: Estimation and Inference of online sequential data: from optimization to decision making
Yi Luo, PhD Student at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Spring 2026 Undergraduate Research Symposium
Join us!
Frick Forum (1st Floor of Bauer/Knight Halls)
Spring 2026 Awards & Honors Ceremony
Join the Department of Statistics & Data Science for our annual Awards & Honors Ceremony!
Jolley Hall, Room 531
When Does Synthetic Data Help Imbalanced Learning?
Anru Zhang, Associate Professor at Duke University
Seigle Hall, Room 208
Master's Thesis Defense: Conformal Prediction for Spatial Count Data under Dependence: A Conclique-Based Calibration Approac
Lingyuan Zhao, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Statistics & Data Science Seminar Series Presents: Distinguished Speaker Xihong Lin
Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics and Chair and Professor of Statistics at Harvard University
Seigle Hall, Room 208
Master's Thesis Defense: Nonparametric Local Linear Estimation of Spot Volatility Functionals
Ran Hu, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Master's Thesis Defense: Change-Point Detection for Conditional Distributions via Kernel and Neural Network Methods
Weichen Kang, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Dark Matter Walks into a Likelihood Function
Tansu Daylan, Assistant Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Master's Thesis Defense: Environmental Exposure Patterns and Autism Spectrum Disorder in the ABCD Study: A Nonlinear and Factor-Based Analysis
Zhaoxuan Wang, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 431
Master's Thesis Defense: Diffusion-based Conditional Density Estimation for Time Series
Xiaoxuan Zhao, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Lopata 202
PhD Oral Thesis Defense: Assumption-lean Inference for Network-Linked Data
Wei Li, PhD Candidate in Statistics and Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Research Infrastructure Services (RIS) Compute2 Tutorial Session
Presented by Sizhe Zhang, Operations and System Specialist, WashU CHPC (Center for High Performance Computing)
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Using a Two-Parameter Sensitivity Analysis Framework to Efficiently Combine Randomized and Non-randomized Studies
Bikram Karmakar, Assistant Professor of Statistics at University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar: Covariance Networks for Sparsely Observed Functional Data
Kaustav Paul, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation: Using Expected Shortfall to Solve Risk Capital Allocation
Stephanie Yang, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Master's Thesis Defense: Expected Shortfall Regression: A Comparative Study of Three Estimators
Yutian Han, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Double Sampling and Semiparametric Methods for Informatively Missing Not at Random Data
Sebastien Haneuse, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University
Seigle Hall, Room 208
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation: Cross-National Predictive and Causal Analysis of Depression Risk Factors in Asian Student and Working Populations
Cindy Nan, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Statistics and Data Science Programs – Challenges and Opportunities
This event is co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Washington University in St. Louis, Danforth Campus
Master's Thesis Defense: Testing Conditional Distribution Equality Using Generative Models
Zekai Jin, Master's Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Spring Break 2026 - no classes
Graduate Student Seminar: Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Entity Ranking Under Iterative Synthetic Data Augmentation
Yiqiao Jin, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Bayesian Causal Inference with Uncertain Physical Process Interference
Corwin Zigler, Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University
Seigle Hall, Room 208
A&S CREATES Presents: Data Science for Air Quality Policy: Setting National Standards and Health Impacts of Power Plants
Corwin Zigler, Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University
Hillman 60
SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series Presents: Digital Humanities and AI Research Opportunities for Students
Claudia Carroll, Postdoctoral Research Associate in TRIADS and Gabi Kiriloff, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Potential Outcome Modeling and Estimation in DiD Designs with Staggered Treatments
Siddhartha Chib, Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Local Variable Selection for High-Dimensional Spatial Data
Debjoy Thakur, Postdoctoral Lecturer in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A/531
Bayesian Nonparametric Measurement with Gaussian Processes: From Static to Dynamic Item Response Theory
Jacob Montgomery, Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Love Data Week 2026
A week of presentations and workshops around all things data, presented by Bernard Becker Medical Library, WashU Libraries, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Digital Intelligence & Innovation (DI2) Accelerator, School of Public Health, Institute for Informatics, Data Science & Biostatistics (I2DB), Brown School Library, Continuing & Professional Studies, and The Graduate Center.
Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Statistical Inference for Complex Data: from Change-Point Detection to Conditional Independence Testing
Yi Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A/531
Optimal Prediction of Asset Returns and Factors of the Stock Market
Guofu Zhou, Frederick Bierman & James E. Spears Professor of Finance, Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Designing Randomized Experiments under Network Interference
Emma Zhang, Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management at Emory University
Seigle Hall, Room 301
Martin Luther King Holiday 2026 - no classes
Tailoring Nuisance Function Estimation for Optimal Downstream Causal Inference
Sean McGrath, Postdoctoral Assistant in Biostatistics and Public Health, Yale University
Danforth University Center, Room 234
First Day of Classes, Spring 2026
Reading Days and Exams - Fall 2025
Compound Selection Decisions: An Almost SURE Approach
Lihua Lei, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University
Crow Hall, Room 206
Thanksgiving Break 2025 - no classes
Graduate Student Seminar: Assumption-Lean Inference for Network-Linked Data
Wei Li, PhD Candidate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
BET and BELIEF
Kai Zhang, Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Crow Hall, Room 206
Information Session: MA and Accelerated BA/MA in Statistics
Calling all undergraduate students!
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Cointegration Between Two Intrinsically Stationary Spatial Processes
Qiwei Yao, Professor of Statistics at London School of Economics and Political Science
Crow Hall, Room 206
Graduate Student Seminar Series Presents: Integrating literary theory and data science: Assessing GPT-generated synthetic fiction for stylistic accuracy using Random Forests
Claudia Carroll, Postdoctoral Research Associate in TRIADS at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy
Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University
Crow Hall, Room 206
AI for Health: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Advance Human Health
Chenyang Lu, Fullgraf Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Director of the AI for Health Institute at Washington University in St. Louis
Crow Hall, Room 206
SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series: Veavi Chang
Calling all Statistics & Data Science Graduate Students and Postdocs!
Jolley Hall, Room 531
Graduate Student Seminar: Adaptive Iterative Hard Thresholding for Online High-dimensional Quantile Regression
Zitian Zhou, PhD Student in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
Towards Interpretable and Trustworthy Network-Assisted Prediction
Liza Levina, Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics at University of Michigan
Crow Hall, Room 206
Graduate Student Seminar: Localized Detection of Authenticity in Mixed Source Texts via Epidemic Change-point Perspective
Subhrajyoty Roy, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics & Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Reinforcement Learning
Nan Jiang, Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Crow Hall, Room 206
Fall Break 2025 - no classes
Interpretable AI in Scientific Applications
David Dunson, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science at Duke University
Crow Hall, Room 206
A Signed-Rank Estimator in Nonlinear Regression Models When Covariates and Errors Are Dependent
Hira Koul, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
Graduate Student Seminar: Kernel Bandwidth Selection for Maximum Mean Discrepancy
Hangcen Zou, Washington University in St. Louis
Jolley Hall, Room 539A
Estimating the Effect of Spatial Interventions in the Presence of Interference: A Causal Inference Approach
Nathan Wikle, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science at University of Iowa
Crow Hall, Room 206
SDS Skills & Professional Advancement Series: Professors Mengxin Yu and Chao Cheng
Calling all Statistics & Data Science Graduate Students and Postdocs!
Jolley Hall, Room 531
ASA Statistics Day at Washington University in St. Louis
Organized by ASA St. Louis Chapter
In collaboration with ASA Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA Washington University Student Chapter, and the Washington University Department of Statistics & Data Science
In collaboration with ASA Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA Washington University Student Chapter, and the Washington University Department of Statistics & Data Science
Washington University in St. Louis Danforth Campus, events start in Crow Hall, Room 201
Statistical Neuroimaging Analysis: An Overview
Lexin Li, Professor of Biostatistics at University of California, Berkeley
Crow Hall, Room 206
SDS Fall Welcome Party
The Boathouse, Forest Park