PhD Exams
| Exam Type | Speaker | Title | Time |
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| General | Apara Venkat | Learning from Expert Knowledge: Bandits and Graphs |
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| General | Sarah Teichman | Statistical methods for microbial gene analyses |
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| Final | Interpretation and Validation for Unsupervised Learning |
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| General | Nicholas Irons | Statistical estimation and decision-making for the COVID-19 pandemic |
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| Final | Aaron J. Baraff | Likelihood-based haplotype frequency modeling using variable-order Markov chains | |
| General | Zhaoqi Li | Estimation and inference of optimal policies | |
| General | Steven Wilkins-Reeves | Learning in Latent Variable Models | |
| General | Jerry Wei | Graphs for Statistical Learning and Modeling |
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| Final | Lang Liu | Statistical Divergences for Learning and Inference: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint |
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| Final | Gang Cheng | Missing Data Methods for Observational Health Dataset | |
| Final | Kunhui Zhang | Statistical Methods for Clustering and High Dimensional Time Series Analysis | |
| Final | Wenyu Chen | Causal Structure Learning in High Dimensions |
| Exam Type | Speaker | Title | Time |
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| Final | Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman | Spatio-Temporal Models, Inference and Computing for Public Health Applications |
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| General | Zhen Miao | Mixture models to fit heavy-tailed, heterogeneous or sparse data | |
| General | Anupreet Porwal | Objective Bayesian methods for variable selection | |
| General | Peter Gao | Areal models for estimation of subnational health and demographic indicators |
| Exam Type | Speaker | Title | Time |
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| General | Alan Min | Statistical methods for genomic sequencing data | |
| General | Michael Pearce | Statistical methods for preference learning |
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| General | Nathan G Welch | Probabilistic Forecasts of International Bilateral Migration Flows |
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| General | Anna Neufeld | Testing data-driven hypotheses |