September 30, 2026 11:00 am Targeting Internal and External Validity in Observational Studies: From Causal Inference to Adaptive Study Design Yajuan Si, Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics at University of Michigan Simon Hall, Room 023
September 25, 2026 9:15 am 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 Washington University in St. Louis Danforth Campus, events start in Crow Hall, Room 201
September 23, 2026 11:00 am Integrating diverse evidence sources in clinical research: bridging RCTs and RWD The interface of statistics, AI, and real-world evidence Shu Yang, Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University Simon Hall, Room 023
September 16, 2026 11:00 am Ensemble Inference in Supervised Homogeneity Pursuit Peter Song, Professor of Biostatistics at University of Michigan Simon Hall, Room 023
September 09, 2026 11:00 am Randomization Inference with Sample Attrition Xinran Li, Assistant Professor of Statistics at The University of Chicago Simon Hall, Room 023
September 02, 2026 11:00 am 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
August 26, 2026 11:00 am Learning to Map Anything, Anywhere, Anytime Nathan Jacobs, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis Jolley Hall, Room 531
April 22, 2026 11:00 am 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
April 15, 2026 11:00 am When Does Synthetic Data Help Imbalanced Learning? Anru Zhang, Associate Professor at Duke University Seigle Hall, Room 208
April 08, 2026 11:00 am 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
April 03, 2026 1:00 pm 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
March 27, 2026 1:00 pm 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
March 25, 2026 11:00 am Double Sampling and Semiparametric Methods for Informatively Missing Not at Random Data Sebastien Haneuse, Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University Seigle Hall, Room 208
March 06, 2026 1:00 pm 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
March 04, 2026 11:00 am Bayesian Causal Inference with Uncertain Physical Process Interference Corwin Zigler, Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University Seigle Hall, Room 208
February 25, 2026 11:00 am 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
February 13, 2026 1:00 pm 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
February 11, 2026 11:00 am 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
February 06, 2026 1:00 pm 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
February 04, 2026 11:00 am 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
January 28, 2026 11:00 am Designing Randomized Experiments under Network Interference Emma Zhang, Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management at Emory University Seigle Hall, Room 301
January 14, 2026 11:00 am 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
December 03, 2025 11:00 am Compound Selection Decisions: An Almost SURE Approach Lihua Lei, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University Crow Hall, Room 206
November 21, 2025 1:00 pm 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
November 19, 2025 11:00 am BET and BELIEF Kai Zhang, Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Crow Hall, Room 206
November 12, 2025 11:00 am Cointegration Between Two Intrinsically Stationary Spatial Processes Qiwei Yao, Professor of Statistics at London School of Economics and Political Science Crow Hall, Room 206
November 07, 2025 1:00 pm 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
November 05, 2025 11:00 am Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University Crow Hall, Room 206
October 29, 2025 11:00 am 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
October 24, 2025 1:00 pm 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
October 22, 2025 11:00 am Towards Interpretable and Trustworthy Network-Assisted Prediction Liza Levina, Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics at University of Michigan Crow Hall, Room 206