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Date | Time | Activities |
January 9 | 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Registration (TU724) (Registration can also be doneon January 10 at the Workshop site Y301) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
January 10 | 08:30 am - 09:00 am | Registration |
09:00 am - 09:05 am | Opening remarks. Jian Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
09:05 am - 09:10 am | Remarks, Defeng Sun, Head, Dept of Applied Math, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
Session 1. Chair: Jian Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | ||
09:10 am - 09:35 am | Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania Title: The Cost of Privacy: Optimal Differentially Private Learning | |
09:35 am - 10:00 am | Kung-Sik Chan, University of Iowa Title: Change Point Detection with Matrix-Variate Data: Leveraging and Adapting to Structured Mean Changes | |
10:00 am - 11:00 am | Group photo, tea break, posterviewing, and discussion | |
Session 2. Chair: Xinyu Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota Title: Boosting Data Analytics with Synthetic Volume Expansion | |
11:25 am - 11:50 am | Hansheng Wang, Peking University Title: Network Gradient Descent Algorithm for Decentralized Federated Learning | |
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | |
Session 3. Chair: Zhao Chen, Fudan University | ||
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm | Linglong Kong, University of Alberta Title: Online Local Differential Private Quantile Inference via Self-normalization | |
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm | Juyong Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China Title: Creating High-Fidelity Digital Avatar for Everyone | |
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Tea break, posterviewing, and discussion | |
Session 4. Chair: Yao Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University | ||
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm | Jinyuan Chang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and CAS Title: Exploring Excellence: Bayesian Penalized Empirical Likelihood and MCMC Sampling | |
4:25 pm - 4:50 pm | Xueqin Wang, University of Science and Technology of China Title: Green’s Matching: An Efficient Approach to Parameter Estimation inComplex Dynamic Systems | |
4:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion | |
6:00 pm | Dinner | |
January 11 | Session 5. Chair: Xingqiu Zhao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
9:00 am - 9:25 am | Qiwei Yao, London Schoolof Economics Title: Blind Source Separation over Space | |
9:25 am - 9:50 am | Ming Yuan, Columbia University Title: On the Multiway PCA | |
9:50 am - 10:15 am | Bin Nan, University of California, Irvine Title: Survival Estimation with Time-Varying Covariates Using Neural Networks | |
10:15 am - 11:00 am | Tea break, posterviewing, and discussion | |
Session 6. Chair: Fang Fang, East China Normal University | ||
11:00 am - 11:25 am | Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, Universiteit Twente Title: Statistical Learning in Biological Neural Networks | |
11:25 am - 11:50 am | Lijian Yang, Tsinghua University Title: Hypotheses Testing of Functional Principal Components | |
11:50 am - 12:15 pm | Zhou Yu, East China Normal University Title: Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction | |
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | |
Session 7. Chair: Yixuan Qiu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | ||
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm | Tengyuan Liang, University of Chicago Title: Randomization Inference When N = 1 | |
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm | Yazhen Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison Title: Reinforcement Learning in a Continuous-Time Stochastic Setting | |
2:50 pm - 3:15 pm | Minge Xie, Rutgers University Title: Inference for Discrete or Non-numerical Parameters and Unraveling Machine Learning Black-Box Models | |
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm | Tea break, posterviewing, and discussion | |
Session 8. Chair: Binyan Jiang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | ||
4:15 pm - 4:40 pm | Yancheng Yuan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Title: DreamRec：Reshaping Sequential Recommendation Systems | |
4:40 pm - 5:05 pm | Jian Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Title: A Bayesian Framework for Fine-Tuning LargeDiffusion Models | |
5:05 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion | |
6:00 pm | Dinner | |