The MSSISS 2016 keynote speaker is Dr. Michael Jordan, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Department of EECS and Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
His research in recent years has focused on Bayesian nonparametric analysis, probabilistic graphical models, spectral methods, kernel machines and applications to problems in signal processing, statistical genetics, computational biology, information retrieval and natural language processing. Prof. Jordan was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2010, of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2010, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has been named a Neyman Lecturer and a Medallion Lecturer by Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). He is a Fellow of the IMS, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the AAAI, and a Fellow of the ASA.
On the Computation/Statistics Interface
There are many research challenges and open problems at the interface of computation and statistics. In this talk I’ll discuss some recent progress at this interface, including (1) the use of concurrency control mechanisms in the setting of statistical inference; (2) an analysis of the computational complexity of high-dimensional Bayesian variable selection; and (3) a new variational perspective on the mysterious phenomenon of Nesterov acceleration.
MSSISS 2016 Presentation Awards:
Best Oral Presentation:
Michael Hornsten (Statistics) – Efficient mean structure estimation using matrix variate data
Oral Presentation Honorable Mention:
Sayantan Das (Biostatistics) – Next generation imputation methods
Best Poster Presentation:
Teal Guidici (Statistics) – Detecting differentially expressed metabolic pathways with adjustments for macronutrient intake
Departmental Poster Presentation Winners:
- Krithika Suresh (Biostatistics) – Evaluating use of a Cox regression model in landmark analysis to approximate an illness-dealth model
- Michael Kovalcik (EECS) – Deep learning in mobile health
- Tom Logan (IOE) – Predictive models in horticulture: a case study with royal gala apples
- Nhat Ho (Statistics) – Singularity structures and parameter estimation in mixtures of skew normal distribution
- Stephanie Stern (Survey Methodology) – Beverage-specific binge drinking patterns in young adults aged 19/20
MSSISS 2016 Student Organizing Committee
| NAME | DEPARTMENT | |
| Wenting Cheng | Biostatistics | chengwt@umich.edu |
| Kristjan Greenewald | EECS | greenewk@umich.edu |
| Wenbo Sun | IOE | sunwbgt@umich.edu |
| Joon Ha Park | Statistics | joonhap@umich.edu |
| Felicitas Mittereder | Survey Methodology | fmitter@umich.edu |
MSSISS 2016 Faculty Advisory Committee
| NAME | DEPARTMENT | |
| Timothy Johnson | Biostatistics | tdjtdj@umich.edu |
| Clayton Scott | EECS | clayscot@umich.edu |
| Eunshin Byon | IOE | ebyon@umich.edu |
| Susan Murphy | Statistics | samurphy@umich.edu |
| Brady West | Survey Methodology | bwest@umich.edu |
