Room 340 West Hall

Ivo D. Dinov Professor of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, School of Nursing Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School Associate Director of Education and Training, Michigan Institute for…

Kevin S. Xu Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Toledo   Recorded Seminar   "Statistical models for analyzing dynamic social network data"   Abstract: Due in part to…

Jonathan Terhorst Assistant Professor of Statistics University of Michigan   RECORDED SEMINAR   New methods for detecting natural selection in large samples of genetic data   Abstract: Understanding how humans evolved…

Yang Chen Assistant Professor of Statistics University of Michigan   RECORDED SEMINAR   Determine the Number of States in Hidden Markov Models via Marginal Likelihood   Abstract: Hidden Markov models (HMM)…

Chris Callison-Burch, PhD Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania "The Promise of Crowdsourcing for Natural Language Processing and Other Data Sciences"   Recorded Seminar   Abstract: Crowdsourcing is a new tool for…

Matias D. Cattaneo Professor of Economics Professor of Statistics University of Michigan   Two-Step Estimation and Inference with Possibly Many Included Covariates   RECORDED SEMINAR   Abstract: We study the implications…

Tamara Broderick Assistant Professor, ITT Career Development Massachusetts Institute of Technology   "Automated Scalable Bayesian Inference Via Data Summarization"   RECORDED SEMINAR   Abstract: Bayesian methods are attractive for analyzing large-scale…

Adriene Beltz Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Michigan   Recorded Seminar   Person Specific Temporal Networks: Accuracy, Dynamics, and Emojis 😕   Abstract: Networks are everywhere! They provide a powerful…

Justin Grimmer Professor Department of Political Science Stanford University   RECORDED SEMINAR   How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts   Abstract: New text-as-data techniques offer a great promise: the…

Claire Cardie, PhD Professor Department of Computer Science Department of Information Science Cornell University   Recorded Seminar   Information Extraction from Online Text --- from Opinions to Arguments to Persuasion…

Chris Miller, PhD Associate Professor of Astronomy Associate Professor of Physics College of Literature, Science, and the Arts University of Michigan   RECORDING   Quantify Systematics from Mislabeled Truth Tables…

Josh Pasek Assistant Professor of Communication Studies University of Michigan RECORDING   What Can Tweets Tell Us About Public Opinions? Uncovering the Data Generating Process by Linking Twitter Data with…

Gil Shamir, PhD Google AI   RECORDED TALK   Leveraging Information Theory to Practical Machine Learning: Minimum Description Length Regularization for Online Learning   Abstract: Classical online learning techniques enforce…

Ji Zhu Department of Statistics University of Michigan   Recorded Seminar   Matrix Completion in Network Analysis   Abstract: Matrix completion is an active area of research in itself,and a…

Animashree Anandkumar Department of Computer + Mathematical Sciences California Institute of Technology   Recording   Infusing Structure into Machine Learning Algorithms Abstract: Standard deep-learning algorithms are based on a function-fitting…

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