plenary speakers and distinguished lecturers

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Committees

Plenary Speakers

Professor Andrea Montanari

Department of Statistics and Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, USA

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Andrea Montanari is the John D. and Sigrid Banks Professor in Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He received a Laurea degree in Physics in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Physics in 2001 (both from Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy). He has been post-doctoral fellow at Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (LPTENS), Paris, France, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, USA. From 2002 to 2010 he was Chargé de Recherche (with Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) at LPTENS. He joined Stanford in 2006, and from 2006 to 2023 has been a faculty in Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics. From 2021 to 2023, he was the Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor in the School of Engineering.

He was awarded the CNRS bronze medal for theoretical physics in 2006, the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2008, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2013, the James L. Massey Award of the Information Theory Society in 2016, and the Le Cam Prize of the French Statistical Society in 2020. He received the ACM SIGMETRICS best paper award in 2008 and the Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award in 2015. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2017 and IMS Fellow in 2020. He was an invited sectional speaker at the 2020 International Congress of Mathematicians and an IMS Medallion lecturer for the 2020 Bernoulli-IMS World Congress.

Professor Hans-Georg Müller

Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, USA

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Hans-Georg Müller is Distinguished Professor of Statistics at UC Davis. He received an M.D. in 1982 from University of Heidelberg, a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1983 from University of Ulm, Germany, Habilitation in Biostatistics in 1986 from University of Marburg, Germany. He has been Assistant Professor at University of Marburg from 1984 to 1987, Associate Professor at University of Erlangen-Nürnberg from 1987 to 1988. He joined Department of Statistics at UC Davis in 1988.

He became an Elected Member of International Statistical Institute since 1989, a Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics since 1993, a Fellow of American Statistical Association since 1995, a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2006. Other honors and awards include: Myrto Lefkopoulou Lecture, Harvard University, 1995; Medallion Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2007; Humboldt Senior Research Award, 2017; Noether Senior Scholar Award, 2017; IMS Rietz Lecture and Award, 2022; Nieuwland Lecture, Notre Dame, 2023; Rubin Lecture, Purdue, 2024.

Distinguished Lecturers

Genevera Allen, Columbia University

Antar Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania

Aurore Delaigle, The University of Melbourne

Lancelot James, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Sungkyu Jung, Seoul National University

Manabu Kuroki, Yokohama National University

Jialiang Li, National University of Singapore

Jun S. Liu, Harvard University

Enno Mammen, Heidelberg University

Ian McKeague, Columbia Univesity

George Michailidis, University of California, Los Angeles

Pierre Del Moral, INRIA & The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Douglas Nychka, Colorado School of Mines

Alexandre B. Tsybakov, ENSAE Paris

Huixia Judy Wang, The George Washington University

Jane-Ling Wang, University of California, Davis

Xiao Wang, Purdue University

Xueqin Wang, University of Science and Technology of China

Hsin-Chou Yang, Academia Sinica

Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University

Program

Preliminary Program

DL01

Structured Nonparametrics

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

Enno Mammen, Heidelberg University, Germany

Invited Speakers

1. Wolfgang Polonik, University of California, Davis, United States
2. Changwon Choi, Seoul National University, South Korea

DL02

Causal Inference

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

Jane-Ling Wang, University of California, Davis, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Qixian Zhong, Xiamen University, China
2. Peng Ding, University of California, Berkeley, United States

DL03

Semiparametric Modeling and Predictive Inference

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

Huixia Judy Wang, The George Washington University, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Tony Sit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2. Seyoung Park, Yonsei University, South Korea

DL04

Minimax Optimality in Online Learning

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

Alexandre B. Tsybakov, ENSAE, France

Invited Speakers

1. Arya Akhavan, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2. Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam, Germany

DL05

To be confirmed

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

Genevera Allen, Columbia University, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
2. Giles Hooker, University of Pennsylvania, United States

DL06

To be confirmed

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

Jun Liu, Harvard University, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Ke Deng, Tsinghua University, China
2. Minsuk Shin, Yonsei University, South Korea

DL07

To be confirmed

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

George Michailidis, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Dan Yang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2. Yao Zheng, University of Connecticut, United States

DL08

To be confirmed

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

Xiao Wang, Purdue University, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Yongdai Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea
2. Yixuan Qiu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

DL09

To be confirmed

Sponsor

IMS

Chair

To be confirmed

Distinguished Lecturer

Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Yunxiao Chen, The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2. Jing Ouyang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

DL10

Advances in Nonparametric Statistics and Functional Data Analysis

Sponsor

Australia/SSA

Chair

Peter Radchenko, The University of Sydney, Australia

Distinguished Lecturer

Aurore Delaigle, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Invited Speakers

1. Frédéric Ferraty, Toulouse Mathematics Institute, France
2. Dominik Liebl, University of Bonn, Germany

DL11

Statistical Inference in Metric Spaces

Sponsor

China

Chair

Fang Yao, Peking University, China

Distinguished Lecturer

Xueqin Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Invited Speakers

1. Ting Li, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2. Jin Zhu, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

DL12

Hierarchical Poisson Species Sampling Models

Sponsor

Hong Kong

Chair

Ming-Yen Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Distinguished Lecturer

Lancelot James, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Invited Speakers

1. Maria De Iorio, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2. Edwin Fong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

DL13

Discrete Random Models and Learning

Sponsor

India

Chair

Parthanil Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Distinguished Lecturer

Antar Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India

Invited Speakers

1. Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2. Nathan Ross, University of Melbourne, Australia

DL14

Development of Causal Inference

Sponsor

Japan/JSS

Chair

Tomonari Sei, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Distinguished Lecturer

Manabu Kuroki, Yokohama National University, Japan

Invited Speakers

1. Yuta Kawakami, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates
2. Shunichiro Orihara, Tokyo Medical University, Japan

DL15

Frontiers in Non-Euclidean Data Analysis

Sponsor

Korea/KSS

Chair

Chae Young Lim, Seoul National University, South Korea

Distinguished Lecturer

Sungkyu Jung, Seoul National University, South Korea

Invited Speakers

1. Zhenhua Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2. Jongmin Lee, Pusan National University, Korea

DL16

Nonstandard Asymptotics in Causal Mediation Analysis

Sponsor

Local host

Chair

Junhui Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Distinguished Lecturer

Ian McKeague, Columbia University, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan, United States
2. Guosheng Yin, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

DL17

Change Point Detection and Its Modern Applications

Sponsor

Singapore

Chair

Yingcun Xia, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Distinguished Lecturer

Jialiang Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Invited Speakers

1. Alex Luedtke, University of Washington, United States
2. Jessica Li, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

DL18

Advancing Precision Health with AI and Statistics

Sponsor

Taiwan/CIPS

Chair

Yingying Wei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Distinguished Lecturer

Hsin-Chou Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Invited Speakers

1. Jung-Ying Tzeng, North Carolina State University, United States
2. Tso-Jung Yen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

DL19

On Sinkhorn Semigroups and Related Fields

Sponsor

Bernoulli Society

Chair

Ajay Jasra, The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen, China

Distinguished Lecturer

Pierre Del Moral, INRIA, France & The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen, China

Invited Speakers

1. Xin Tong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2. Ajay Jasra, The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen, China

DL20

Mathematical Underpinnings of Distributed Inference: From Theory to Real-world Applications

Sponsor

ICSA

Chair

Ying Zhang, University of Nebraska Medical Center, United States

Distinguished Lecturer

Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware, United States
2. Huiyuan Wang, University of Pennsylvania, United States

DL21

Advancing Spatial Statistical Inference Through Machine Learning, AI, and Modern Computational Methods

Sponsor

IISA

Chair

Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Colorado School of Mines, United States

Distinguished Lecturer

Douglas Nychka, Colorado School of Mines, United States

Invited Speakers

1. Bo Li, Washington University in St. Louis, United States
2. Wentao Zhan, University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

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