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Conference Program

Time

Event

8:00-8:40
Registration and Breakfast
Location: CNR P-level outside the auditorium
8:40-8:50
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Location: CNR Auditorium
Emory CFAR Keynote Session
Location: CNR Auditorium
Chair: Limin Peng
8:50-9:50
Keynote speaker: Peter Gilbert
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington Immune Correlates Analysis of the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy Trial
9:50-10:10 Coffee Break
Invited Session
Parallel session 1
Location: CNR Auditorium
Chair: Max Lau 		Parallel session 2
Location: CNR 1000
Chair: Yi-An Ko
10:10-10:35 Shihao Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Big-data infectious disease estimation:
From flu to covid-19 		Razieh Nabi (Emory University)
The role of causal mediation analysis in
personalized decision making 
10:35-11:00 Ben Risk (Emory University)
A missing data method for deconfounding in
neuroimaging studies 		Santu Ghosh (Augusta University)
Large-Scale Simultaneous Testing Using
Kernel Density Estimation
11:00-11:25 Pengsheng Ji (University of Georgia)
Statistics for statisticians:
Looking into the past through citations 		Wenjing Liao (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Exploiting low-dimensional structures of data sets in
machine learning with deep neural networks
11:25-11:50 Mohamed Mubasher (Morehouse School of Medicine)
How Social Vulnerability Predicted
the Frequency and Intensity of COVID-19:
A case in point using Georgia county-specific data 		Linwei Hu (Wells Fargo, virtual)
Fitting interpretable Machine Learning models with
main effect and low-order interactions using
boosted model-based trees
Lunch Break, Poster and Round Table Sessions
12:00-13:50
Lunch break at the courtyard outside CNR
Poster session at the first floor corridor between CNR and GCR (12:30-3:50)

Round Table Discussions

12:05-12:50 at CNR 1051: SAS Global Academic Programs: A Corporate Partner to Enable Analytics Education. Lead: Jacqueline Johnson.

13:00-13:45 at CNR 1055: Full-time and Internship Opportunities with Wells Fargo. Lead: Tracey Tullie (virtual): Moderator: Taylor Head.

Invited Session
Parallel session 3
Location: CNR Auditorium
Chair: Raphiel Murden 		Parallel session 4
Location: CNR 1000
Chair: Dayu Sun
13:50-14:15 Christina Mehta (Emory University)
Nested and Multipart Studies:
Flaming Fiasco or Efficiently Economical? 		Ruiyan Luo (Georgia State University)
Modeling spiky functions with derivatives of
smooth functions in function-on-function regression
14:15-14:40 Craig Borkowf (CDC)
Notes from the field:
Teaching collaborators about best practices regarding p-values and statistical significance. 		Ting Zhang (University of Georgia)
High quantile regression for
tail dependent time series
14:40-15:05 Heather Strosnider (CDC)
Modernizing CDC's data and IT infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of advanced statistical methods 		Yonggang Yao (SAS, virtual)
Counterfactual analysis of cross-sectional data using quantile process regression
15:05-15:20 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
Location: CNR Auditorium
Chair: Hao Wu
15:20-17:20 Robert Krafty (Emory University)
Adaptive Spectral Analysis and Learning of Nonstationary Time Series
Ping Ma (University of Georgia)
Statistical Computing Meets Quantum Computing
Nicoleta Serban (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Computational Methods for Healthcare Access Modeling
17:20-17:35 Coffee Break
Closing Session
Location: CNR Auditorium
17:35-18:00 Closing remarks and poster awards