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Monday, 26 May, 2025

08:30 - 09:50

SSC Presidential Invited Address

Room: HLTH 1150

08:30 - 09:50
Data-Driven Research: Advancing Equity with Integrity
Rebecca Hubbard (Brown University)

10:20 - 11:50

Advances in Biostatistical Methods for Personalized Medicine and Health Outcomes

Room: ARTS 263

10:20 - 10:35
Joint Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Binary and Survival Outcomes in Basket Clinical Trials
Tyler Thomas (Queen’s University )
10:35 - 10:50
Dual Censoring Schemes for Marker and Failure Time Processes
Laura Bumbulis (University of Waterloo)
10:50 - 11:05
Dynamic Personalized Prediction Using Joint Modeling of Daily SOFA Trajectories and Time-to-Event Data
Rebecca Quaijah (University of Calgary)
11:05 - 11:20
Identifying Treatment Effect Heterogeneity with Bayesian Hierarchical Adjustable Random Partition in Adaptive Enrichment Trials
Xianglin Zhao (McGill University)

Shirin Golchi

McGill University
11:20 - 11:35
Estimating Associations Between Cumulative Exposure and Health via Generalized Distributed Lag Non-Linear Models using Penalized Splines
Tianyi Pan (University of Waterloo)

Hwashin Shin

Health Canada

Glen McGee

University of Waterloo

Alex Stringer

University of Waterloo
11:35 - 11:50
A Causal Survival Analysis Approach for Multi-Level Health Data
Priyonto Saha (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

Advances in Business and Industrial Statistics

Room: ARTS 133

10:20 - 10:35
The Geography of Sin and ESG Practices in the United States
Qiongfang LU (University of Saskatchewan)
10:35 - 10:50
Understanding Intrinsic Socioeconomic Biases in Large Language Models
MINA ARZAGHI (HEC Montreal, MILA)

Florian Carichon

HEC Montreal

Golnoosh Farnadi

McGill University, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
10:50 - 11:05
GCov-Based Portmanteau Test
Aryan Manafi Neyazi (York University)

Joann Jasiak

York University
11:05 - 11:20
Differential Privacy in Machine Learning: Theoretical Bounds and Statistical Properties
Chang Qu (University of Ottawa)

Rafal Kulik

University of Ottawa
11:20 - 11:35
Assessing Counting Systems using a Gold Standard
Megan French (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)

Ryan Browne

University of Waterloo

Stefan Steiner

University of Waterloo
11:35 - 11:50
Investigating Control-Centred Results after Uncentred Principal Component Analysis
John C. Castura (Compusense Inc.)

Véronique Cariou

StatSC, Oniris, Inrae, Nantes, France

Tormod Næs

Nofima AS, Ås, Norway

Advances in Statistical Methods for Natural Phenomena and Risk

Room: ARTS 102

10:20 - 10:35
ChronoFlow: A Data-Driven Model for Gyrochronology
Phil R Van-Lane (University of Toronto)

Joshua Speagle

University of Toronto

Gwendolyn Eadie

University of Toronto

Stephanie Douglas

Lafayette College

Phillip Cargile

Center for Astrophysics

Catherine Zucker

Center for Astrophysics

Lucy Lu

The Ohio State University

Ruth Angus

American Museum of Natural History
10:35 - 10:50
Characterizing Plastic Pollution in Urban Stormwater Ponds in London, Ontario
Dinithi De Silva (Western University)

Douglas Woolford

Western University

Patricia Corcoran

Western University
10:50 - 11:05
Analyzing Fire Spread Using Segmentation from Experimental Fire Videos
Ladan Tazik (University of British Columbia Okanagan)
11:05 - 11:20
Optimal Catastrophe Risk Pooling
Minh Chau Nguyen (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)
11:20 - 11:35
Enhancing Sawmills Statistical Process Control System Using Mixture Models
Golshid Aflaki (HEC Montréal)

Jean-François Plante

HEC Montreal

Bridging statistical and climate models for actuarial applications

Room: ARTS 146

10:20 - 10:50
A Physical and Statistical Hurricane Model for the Present and Future Climate
Mathieu Boudreault (Université du Québec à Montréal)
10:50 - 11:20
Modelling the Impacts of Climate Change on Deaths caused by Heat and Cold Waves with Age-period-cohort Models
Thomas Landry (UQAM)
11:20 - 11:50
Using Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Flood Intensity Projections under Climate Change over the US and Canada
Lenin Del Rio Amador (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Mathieu Boudreault

Université du Québec à Montréal

Aboudoul Karim Aboubacar Larre

Université du Québec à Montréal

Delivering data science

Room: HLTH 1A60

10:20 - 10:50
Draft SSC Statement on Role of Statistics in Data Science and AI
Thomas M. Loughin (Simon Fraser University)

Saman Muthukumarana

University of Manitoba

Eric Rancourt

Statistics Canada

Bingrui (Cindy) Sun

University of Calgary

Tiffany Timbers

University of British Columbia

Yildiz Yilmaz

Memorial University
10:50 - 11:20
Exploring Data Science at the U of C: Key Challenges and Highlights
Thuntida Ngamkham (University of Calgary)

Jim Stallard

University of Calgary
11:20 - 11:50
Designing and Delivering Data Science Programs for Diverse Audiences
Tiffany A. Timbers (The University of British Columbia)

Emerging Challenges in Analyzing Noisy and Survival Data

Room: HLTH GB03

10:20 - 10:50
Extending Age-Specific Logistic Regression with Complex Event Times
Haoxuan Zhou (Simon Fraser University)

X. Joan Hu

Simon Fraser University

Yi Xiong

University at Buffalo

Yan Yuan

University of Alberta
10:50 - 11:20
A Boosting Method for Survival Data with Right-Censored Responses
Grace Y. Yi (University of Western Ontario)

Li-Pang Chen

University of Western Ontario
11:20 - 11:50
Marginal Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Cure Model for Clustered Survival Data
Yingwei (Paul) Peng (Queen's University)

Yi Niu

Dalian University of Technology

Duze Fan

Dalian University of Technology

Jie Ding

Dalian University of Technology

Leading the Forefront of Statistical Ecology in Canada

Room: HLTH 1B11

10:20 - 10:45
Enhancing Aquatic Species Classification: Integration of Prior Knowledge into AI models for Improved Accuracy
Sofia Ruiz Suarez (University of Toronto)

Vianey Leos Barajas

University of Toronto

Dak de Kerckhove

Ministry of Natural Resources
10:45 - 11:10
Smooth Models for Animal Movement
Théo Michelot (Dalhousie University)
11:10 - 11:35
Integrating Citizen Science and Telemetry Data to Model Bird Migration
Noudehouenou (Freedich) Houessou (Université de Sherbrooke)

Guillaume Blanchet

Université de Sherbrooke

Dominique Gravel

Université de Sherbrooke

Pierre Legagneux

Université de Laval
11:35 - 11:50
Discussant
Marie Auger-Méthé (The University of British Columbia)

New Development in Functional Data Analysis

Room: HLTH GB06

10:20 - 10:50
Scalable Inference in Functional Linear Regression with Streaming Data
Linglong Kong (University of Alberta)

Jinhan Xie

Yunan University

Enze Shi

University of Alberta

Peijun Sang

University of Waterloo

Zuofeng Shang

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Bei Jiang

University of Alberta
10:50 - 11:20
Functional Kalman Filtering and Smoothing for Accelerometer Data
Adam B. Kashlak (University of Alberta)

Yan Cui

Reed College & Illinois State University
11:20 - 11:50
Representation Learning of Dynamic Networks
Haixu Wang (University of Calgary)

Jiguo Cao

Simon Fraser University

Jian Pei

Duke University

New Frontiers in Biostatistical Methods

Room: ARTS 134

10:20 - 10:35
A Nonparametric Framework for Treatment Effect Modifier Discovery in High Dimensions
Philippe Boileau (McGill University)

Ning Leng

Genentech Inc

Nima S Hejazi

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Mark J van der Laan

University of California, Berkeley

Sandrine Dudoit

University of California, Berkeley
10:35 - 10:50
Rewards Construction based on Preference Learning for Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Sophia Yazzourh (McGill Biostatistics)

Nicolas Savy

Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse

Philippe Saint-Pierre

Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse

Michael R. Kosorok

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:50 - 11:05
Covariate Selection in Simplex Regression, with Applications to Wastewater-based Epidemiology of COVID-19 Variants of Concern
Devan G. Becker (Wilfrid Laurier University)
11:05 - 11:20
A Statistical Framework for Reconstructing Epidemic Curves
Justin Slater (University of Guelph)
11:20 - 11:35
Likelihood-Based Nonparametric Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve Analysis in the presence of Imperfect Reference Standard
Yifan Sun (University of Waterloo)

Peijun Sang

University of Waterloo

Qinglong Tian

University of Waterloo

Pengfei Li

University of Waterloo
11:35 - 11:50
Effect of Missing Responses on the c(α) or Score tests in One-way Layout of Count Data
Poonam Shrestha Malakar (University of Windsor)

Sudhir Paul

University of Windsor

Abdulla Mamun

Gonzaga University

Subhamoy Pal

Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Center

Recent Advances of Causal Inference Techniques in Health Research

Room: HLTH 1130

10:20 - 10:50
Model Selection for Causal Inference in Missing Exposure Problems
Yeying Zhu (University of Waterloo)

Yuliang Shi

University of Waterloo

Joel Dubin

University of Waterloo
10:50 - 11:20
Causal Estimation with Longitudinal Outcome-Highly-Adaptive LASSO
Mireille Schnitzer (Université de Montréal)

David Berger

Université de Montréal

Yan Liu

Université de Montréal

Ashkan Ertefaie

University of Pennsylvania

Denis Talbot

Université Laval

David Benkeser

Emory University
11:20 - 11:50
Estimating Average Treatment Effects of Encouragement Variables
Lan Wen (University of Waterloo)

Statistical inference in the presence of non-probability sampling in surveys

Room: ARTS 143

10:20 - 10:50
Construction of Indirect Sampling Weights Through Data Integration
Heng Chen (Bank of Canada)
10:50 - 11:20
Nonignorable Participation for Non-probability Survey Samples
Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo)
11:20 - 11:50
Improve Survey Inference Using Bayesian Machine Learning
Qixuan Chen (Columbia University)

12:00 - 13:15

Biostatistics Section Executive Committee Meeting

Room: HLTH GB10

12:00 - 13:15

Business and Industrial Statistics Section Executive Committee Meeting

Room: HLTH 1B11

12:00 - 13:15

Research Committee Meeting

Room: HLTH 1A60

12:00 - 13:15

Student and Recent Graduate Committee Meeting

Room: HLTH GB06

12:00 - 13:15

13:30 - 15:00

Addressing EDI Concerns in Methodological Research

Room: HLTH 1A60

13:30 - 14:00
Beyond Randomized Response: Promoting Equity by Ensuring Privacy
Dylan Spicker (University of New Brunswick)
14:00 - 14:30
Advancing Fairness in Treatment Strategy Estimation on Censored Data
Junxi Zhang (Concordia University Montreal)
14:30 - 15:00
Addressing EDI Concerns in Methodological Research
Mabel Carabali (McGill University)

Advances in Biostatistical Methods for Genetic and Disease Transmission Modelling

Room: ARTS 134

13:30 - 13:45
Joint Modelling for Complex Disease Processes with Real-World Data
Lily Zou (University of Waterloo)

Richard J. Cook

University of Waterloo

Jerald F. Lawless

University of Waterloo
13:45 - 14:00
Short-term Forecast of Respiratory Virus Transmission in Ontario
Junzi Chen (Dalla Lana School of Public Health/University of Toronto)
14:00 - 14:15
Comparing Endogenous and Exogenous Behaviour Change Mechanisms in COVID-19 Models
Madeline Ward (University of Calgary)

Rob Deardon

University of Calgary

Lorna Deeth

University of Guelph
14:15 - 14:30
Spatiotemporal Individual-Level Model of Seasonal Infectious Disease Transmission
Amin Abed (University of Manitoba)

Mahmoud Torabi

University of Manitoba

Zeinab Mashreghi

University of Winnipeg
14:30 - 14:45
Expectile and M-Quantile Regression in High Dimensions in the Presence of Missing Data for Polygenic Risk Scores Construction
Abdoul Oudouss Diakite (INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier)

Catherine Laprise

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi / INRS

Amadou Barry

Centre Armand-Frappier INRS / Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
14:45 - 15:00
Gene-Gene Associations in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights from Gene Network Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data
Jing Wang (University of Saskatchewan)

Advances in Statistical Analysis for Biological and Social Sciences

Room: ARTS 102

13:30 - 13:45
Statistical Methods for Network-Based Cultural Evolution Modeling in Organizational Hierarchies
Amaris Huang (McGill University)

Eric Kolaczyk

McGill University

Peter MacDonald

University of Waterloo
13:45 - 14:00
Finite Mixture of Multivariate Poisson Log-normal Factor Regression Models for Clustering Count Data
Yubin Sung (Carleton University)

Sanjeena Dang

Carleton University

Song Cai

Carleton University
14:00 - 14:15
Applying Regularized Regression Methods for Lung Epithelial Cell Type Classification in Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data
Linxi Li (University of Saskatchewan)
14:15 - 14:30
Average Treatment Effect with Continuous Instrumental Variables
Mei Dong (University of Toronto)

Dingke Tang

Washington University in St. Louis

Wei Xu

University of Toronto

Linbo Wang

University of Toronto
14:30 - 14:45
Novel Approach for PSD Decomposition in EEG Recordings
Sambavi Arulnandhy (Brock University)

William Marshall

Brock University
14:45 - 15:00
Automated Cell Annotation Tool From an Integrated Cell Atlas of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Healthy Control
Yushan Hu (University of Victoria)

Li Xing

University of Saskatchewan

Xiaojian Shao

National Research Council Canada

Ziying Liu

National Research Council Canada

Kailun Bai

University of Victoria

Xuekui Zhang

University of Victoria

Don Sin

University of British Columbia

Machine Learning for Finance and Insurance

Room: ARTS 146

13:30 - 14:00
Integrated Design for Index Insurance
Liqun Diao (University of Waterloo)

Chengguo Weng

University of Waterloo

Jinggong Zhang

Nanyang Technological University
14:00 - 14:30
Greenhouse-Gas-Emission-Aware Portfolio Optimization with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Zaniar Ahmadi (Concordia University)

Frédéric Godin

Concordia University

Kassimou Abdoul Haki Maoude

Concordia University

Modelling and Managing Health Outcomes: From Personalized Treatments to Public Health

Room: ARTS 263

13:30 - 13:45
Optimizing Service Utilization with Dynamic Weighted Ordinary Least Squares
Alexandra Mossman (University of Waterloo)
13:45 - 14:00
Beyond Gaussian Processes: A Neural Refinement Approach for Optimizing Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Chloe Si (McGill University)
14:00 - 14:15
A Novel Bayesian Randomization Test for Clinical Trials with Small Sample Size
Abigail McGrory (University of Toronto)

Eleanor Pullenayegum

The Hospital for Sick Children
14:15 - 14:30
Deep Learning Neural Network-Exponential Family Mixture Model on Subgroup Analysis
Yangsai Lyu (Queen's University)

Bingshu Chen

Queen's University

Wenyu Jiang

Queen's University
14:30 - 14:45
Bootstrap Adjustment for Predictive Classification Based on a Change-point Cox Model for Survival Data
Zehui Wang (Queen's University)

Yanglei Song

Queen's University

Wenyu Jiang

Queen's University

Dongsheng Tu

Queen's University
14:45 - 15:00
A Partially Linear Additive Single-index Threshold Model for Longitudinal Proportion Data
Yuwei Ke (Queen's University)

Monitoring high-dimenstional data streams and additive manufacturing

Room: HLTH GB06

13:30 - 14:00
Online Monitoring of High-Dimensional Dynamic Processes Using PCA-Based Sequential Learning
Peihua Qiu (University of Florida)
14:00 - 14:30
Advancing Measurement System Assessment for Complex Data Structures
Banafsheh Lashkari (University of Waterloo)
14:30 - 15:00
Nonparametric Rank-Based Process Monitoring Methods on Manifold Spaces for Additive Manufacturing Applications
Ahmad Mozaffari (University of Waterloo)

New Frontiers in Data Science

Room: ARTS 133

13:30 - 13:45
Advanced Techniques for Mitigating Abnormal Instances and Class Imbalance in High-Dimensional Data Classification
Surani Matharaarachchi (University of Manitoba)

Saman Muthukumarana

University of Manitoba

Mike Domaratzki

Western University
13:45 - 14:00
An Adversarial Analysis of Thompson Sampling for Full-Information Online Learning: From Finite to Infinite Action Spaces
Jeffrey Negrea (University of Waterloo)

Alexander Terenin

Cornell University
14:00 - 14:15
Fully Functional Sieve Covariance Inference of Locally Stationary Functional Time Series
Yan Cui (Illinois State University)

Zhou Zhou

University of Toronto
14:15 - 14:30
CARROT: A Cost Aware Rate Optimal Router
Subha Maity (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)
14:30 - 14:45
Numerical Integration in Statistical Problems
Alex Stringer (University of Waterloo)

Blair Bilodeau

University of Toronto

Yanbo Tang

Imperial College London

Statistical advances in precision medicine

Room: HLTH 1130

13:30 - 14:00
Optimizing visit Times to improve Hypertension Management, an Application to the SPRINT Trial
Janie Coulombe (Université de Montréal)

Tianze Jiao

Université de la Floride

Dany El-Riachi

Université Sherbrooke

Fanxing Du

Université de la Floride
14:00 - 14:30
Checking assumptions: what we can and cannot do
Juliana Schulz (HEC Montréal)

Erica E. M. Moodie

McGill University

Susan M. Shortreed

Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
14:30 - 15:00
Machine learning to control confounding when estimating an optimal adaptive treatment strategy
Denis Talbot (Université Laval)

Kossi Clément Trenou

Universite Laval

Miceline Mesidor

Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Aida Eslami

Universite Laval

Shrinkage Estimation in Multivariate Statistical Modeling

Room: HLTH 1B11

13:30 - 14:00
Variable Selection in the Joint Frailty Model of Recurrent and Terminal Events using the Broken Adaptive Ridge Regression
Christian Chan (University of Calgary)

Fatemeh Mahmoudi

Mount Royal University

Chel Hee Lee

University of Calgary

Quan Long

University of Calgary

Xuewen Lu

University of Calgary
14:00 - 14:30
Confidence sets based on the Positive Part James-Stein Estimator with the Asymptotically Constant Coverage Probability
Andrei Volodin (University of Regina)
14:30 - 15:00
Variable Selection and Dimension Reduction in Partially Linear Single-Index AFT Models
Xuewen Lu (University of Calgary)

Spotlight on CANSSI Postdocs

Room: HLTH GB03

13:30 - 14:00
Variational Phylogenetic Inference with Products Over Bipartitions
Evan Sidrow (The University of British Columbia)

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté

University of British Columbia

Lloyd T. Elliott

Simon Fraser University
14:00 - 14:30
Hidden Markov Individual-level Models of Infectious Disease Transmission
Dirk Douwes-Schultz (University of Calgary)

Rob Deardon

University of Calgary

Alexandra Schmidt

McGill University
14:30 - 15:00
Estimating the Basic Reproduction Number and the Serial Interval at the beginning of an Outbreak
Tatiana Krikella (York University)

Hanna Jankowski

York University

Jane Heffernan

York University

Sawitree Boonpatcharanon

York University

SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work 2024

Room: ARTS 143

13:30 - 15:00
Harnessing Statistics in Marine Science: Methods, Models, and Insights
Joanna Elizabeth Mills Flemming (Dalhousie University)

13:30 - 17:00

Case Study 1: Prediction of New Onset Atrial Fibrillation Using Routinely Reported 12-Lead ECG Variables and Electronic Heal

Room: HLTH GD50 Large Atrium

13:30 - 15:00
University of Calgary
Alina Yildir (University of Calgary)

Archana Senthil

University of Calgary

Harpreet Saini

University of Calgary
13:30 - 15:00
University of Manitoba 1
Azizur Rahman (University of Manitoba)

Yan Sin Leung

University of Manitoba

Shi Zhang

University of Manitoba

Kaihim Wong

University of Manitoba
13:30 - 15:00
University of Manitoba 2
Heshani Achinthika Mendis (University of Manitoba)

Gayathri Subasinghe

University of Manitoba

Lavanya Kumarasiri

University of Manitoba

Madhawa Hulangamuwa

University of Manitoba
13:30 - 15:00
University of Toronto 3
Ting Lin (University of Toronto)

Kevin Chen

University of Toronto

Edward Zhao

University of Toronto

Mark Asuncion

University of Toronto
13:30 - 15:00
University of Toronto 5
Junzi Chen (Dalla Lana School of Public Health/University of Toronto)

Erwen Wu

University of Toronto

Kevin Jia Cheng Wang

University of Toronto

Belina Jang

University of Toronto
13:30 - 15:00
University of Western Ontario
Furkan Berk Danisman (York University)

Ana Carolin Da Cruz

University of Western Ontario

Ryan Rakusin

University of Western Ontario
15:30 - 17:00
Carleton University
Hoang-Nam Chu (Carleton University)

Graham Gee

Carleton University

Antonio Duran

Carleton University

Matthew Lunn

Carleton University
15:30 - 17:00
MacEwan University
Samantha Malek (MacEwan University)

Avishek Paudel

MacEwan University

Russell Johnson

MacEwan University
15:30 - 17:00
McMaster University
Todd Pocuca (McMaster University)

Hyuna Seo

McMaster University
15:30 - 17:00
University of Saskatchewan
Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi (University of Saskatchewan)

Bernard Asante

University of Saskatchewan

Patricia Salazar-Ramirez

University of Saskatchewan
15:30 - 17:00
University of Toronto 1
Daniel Del Rosso (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

Maksim Helmann

University of Toronto

Keanna Nandlall

University of Toronto

Hamda Altaf

University of Toronto

Mohsyn Imran Malik

University of Toronto
15:30 - 17:00
University of Toronto 2
Vanessa Liao (University of Toronto)

John Fei

University of Toronto

Tina Tan

University of Toronto

Luke Bai

University of Toronto
15:30 - 17:00
University of Toronto 4
Jiahui Zhang (University of Toronto)

Yu Shi

University of Toronto

Aoqi Xie

University of Toronto

Emmett Peng

University of Toronto

Case Study 2: Analysis of historical environmental data collected by ocean gliders in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Room: HLTH GD50 Large Atrium

13:30 - 15:00
Brock University
Izaak Gagnon (Brock University)

Jaiden Dahlke

Brock University

Ethan Garrafa

Brock University

Ryan Gunther

Brock University
13:30 - 15:00
University of Guelph
Luis Miguel Roldan Alzate (University of Guelph)

Alex McCubbin

University of Guelph

Robert De Castris

University of Guelph
13:30 - 15:00
University of Toronto 6
Qiyue Zhang (University of Toronto)

Yanning Wang

University of Toronto

Yuning Wang

University of Toronto

Lin Yu

University of Toronto
15:30 - 17:00
Laurentian University
Mianzhi Wu (Laurentian University)

Jiajun Wu

Laurentian University

Zihan Chen

Laurentian University

Jingwen Ji

Laurentian University
15:30 - 17:00
University of Montreal
William Ruth (Mount Royal University)

Rowin Alfaro

Université de Montréal

15:30 - 17:00

Advances in Risk Modelling in Finance and Insurance

Room: ARTS 263

15:30 - 15:45
Accounting for Model Risk in Property and Casualty Insurance
Hanieh Amjadian (Concordia University Montreal)

Yang Lu

Concordia university

Patrice Gaillardetz

Concordia university
15:45 - 16:00
Risk Models From Tree-Structured Markov Random Fields Following Multivariate Poisson Distributions
Alexandre Dubeau (Université Laval)

Hélène Cossette

Université Laval

Benjamin Côté

Université Laval

Etienne Marceau

Université Laval
16:00 - 16:15
From Point to Probabilistic Gradient Boosting for Claim Frequency and Severity Prediction
Dominik Chevalier (Université Laval)

Marie-Pier Côté

Université Laval
16:15 - 16:30
Tail Value-at-Risk under Reward-Penalty Mechanism with Applications to Robust Portfolio Management
Zhiqiao Song (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)
16:30 - 16:45
Dimension Reduction of High-Dimensional Distributionally Robust Optimization
Brandon Tam (University of Toronto)

Silvana M. Pesenti

University of Toronto
16:45 - 17:00
Actuarial Fire-Spreading Model Based on Tree-Structured Probabilistic Graphical Model, with Insurance Applications
André Orelien Chuisseu Tchuisseu (Université Laval)

Jean-Philippe Boucher

Université de Québec à Montréal

Hélène Cossette

Université Laval

Etienne Marceau

Université Laval

Advances in Statistical Inference and Computing

Room: ARTS 102

15:30 - 15:45
Testing the Ratio of Variances in Data from Delta-lognormal Distributions Based on Various Classical and Bayesian Approaches
Mohammad Mastak Al Amin (University of Regina)
15:45 - 16:00
Comparing Exact and Approximate Inference for Spatial Autocorrelation Tests: A Power Analysis
Aditya Khan (University of Toronto)

Ian Zhang

University of Toronto
16:00 - 16:15
Restricted Search Space Graph MCMC via Birth-Death Processes
Morris Greenberg (University of Toronto)

Radu Craiu

University of Toronto

Kieran Campbell

University of Toronto
16:15 - 16:30
Adaptive Pseudo-Marginal Algorithm
Sarra Abaoubida (University of Montreal)
16:30 - 16:45
Analyzing Decision Tree Bias Towards the Minority Class
Nathan Phelps (University of Western Ontario)

Daniel J. Lizotte

University of Western Ontario

Douglas G. Woolford

University of Western Ontario
16:45 - 17:00
Differential Equation-Constrained Regression Estimators for Data with Sparse Design
Chunlei Ge (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

W. John Braun

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Advances in Survey Methods and Data Privacy

Room: ARTS 134

15:30 - 15:45
Calibration Estimators with Missing Auxiliary Covariates
David Thiessen (MacEwan University)
15:45 - 16:00
Deep Neural Networks for Doubly Robust Estimation with Nonprobability Survey Samples
yufang Dai (University of Calgary)

Xuewen Lu

University of Calgary
16:00 - 16:15
Discretization in two-phase designs
Aadesh Warren Nunkoo (University of Prince Edward Island)
16:15 - 16:30
Dimension Reduction Approaches for Two-Phase Subsample Selection with High-Dimensional Covariates 
Hanrui Dou
16:30 - 16:45
Differential Privacy with Bounded Output: Noise Addition for Non-Negative or Limited-Range Results
Xiang Zhang (Carleton University)
16:45 - 17:00
Integrated Model for Dependent Spatial Capture-Recapture and Presence-Absence Data
Mehnaz Jahid (University of Victoria)

Funding Opportunities for Statistics and Data Science Research

Room: ARTS 143

15:30 - 17:00
Funding Opportunities for Statistics and Data Science Research
Pascal Marchand (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)

Ilana Gombos

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Katarina Dedovic

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Donald Estep

Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute

Zsuzsa Papp

MITACS

Ins and Outs of Professional Consulting and Collaboration (panel session)

Room: HLTH GB03

15:30 - 17:00
Ins and Outs of Professional Consulting and Collaboration (panel session)
Lisa M. Lix (University of Manitoba)

Thomas Loughin

Simon Fraser University

Wesley Burr

Trent University

New Advances in Machine Learning Research

Room: ARTS 146

15:30 - 16:00
Generalized Random Forests Using Fixed-Point Trees
Archer Yang (McGill University)

David Fleischer

McGill University

David Stephens

McGill University
16:00 - 16:30
CBMA: Improving Conformal Prediction Through Bayesian Model Averaging
Bei Jiang (University of Alberta)
16:30 - 17:00
Robust PCA via Medians on Submanifolds
Shojaeddin Chenouri (University of Waterloo)

Varnan Sarangian

University of Waterloo

Christopher Small

University of Waterloo

Probabilistic Models Related to Biopolymer Modelling

Room: HLTH 1B11

15:30 - 16:00
Discrete Models for DNA-RNA Complexes
Margherita Maria Ferrari (University of Manitoba)
16:00 - 16:30
Petal Knots
Eric Rawdon (University of St. Thomas)
16:30 - 17:00
Preserving Topology
Andrew Rechnitzer (UBC)

Recent advances in complex and high dimensional causal inference research

Room: HLTH 1130

15:30 - 16:00
A Bayesian Causal Model for Matrix-Valued Exposures
Olli Saarela (University of Toronto)

Zijin Liu

University of Toronto

Amy Liu

University Health Network
16:00 - 16:30
Improving Causal Inference with Deep Learning: A Comparative Analysis of TARNet, Dragonnet, and NEDnet in Low and High-Dimensional Tabular Data
Mohammad Ehsanul Karim (The University of British Columbia)

Zining Annie Wang

University of British Columbia
16:30 - 17:00
Causal Inference for a Hidden Treatment
Ying Zhou (University of Connecticut)

Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen

University of Pennsylvania

Statistical analysis of network data

Room: HLTH GB06

15:30 - 16:00
Autoregressive Networks With Dependent Edges
Eric Kolaczyk (McGill University)

Jinyuan Chang

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Qin Fan

University of Sydney

Peter W. MacDonald

University of Waterloo

Qiwei Yao

London School of Economics and Political Science
16:00 - 16:30
Low-order Outcomes and Clustered Designs: Combining Design and Analysis for Causal Inference under Network Interference
Matthew Eichhorn (Cornell University)

Samir Khan

Stanford University

Johan Ugander

Stanford University

Christina Lee Yu

Cornell University
16:30 - 17:00
Unsupervised Learning on High-order Relational Data
François Théberge (Tutte Institute)

Statistical modelling of extremes of complex natural hazards

Room: HLTH 1A60

15:30 - 16:00
Probabilistic Deep Convolutional Net Emulator of Hydrometeorological Conditions
Julie Carreau (Polytechnique Montreal)

Maryam Alipourhajiagha

Polytechnique Montreal

Pierre-Louis Lemaire

Polytechnique Montreal

Youssef Diouane

Polytechnique Montreal
16:00 - 16:30
Joint Modeling of Multi-Scale Extreme Precipitation for IDF Curves
Charles Marois (Polytechnique Montreal)

Jonathan Jalbert

Polytechnique Montréal
16:30 - 17:00
Estimating Extreme Wave Surges in the Presence of Missing Data
Orla A. Murphy (Dalhousie University)

James H. McVittie

University of Regina

Topics in Probability and Stochastic Processes

Room: ARTS 133

15:30 - 15:45
An Optimal-transport Solution to Marginal-constrained Stochastic Inverse Problems
Samopriya Basu (Simon Fraser University (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science))

Faezeh Yazdi

Simon Fraser University
15:45 - 16:00
Asymptotic Tail Properties of Poisson Mixture Distributions
Samuel Valiquette (McGill University)

Gwladys Toulemonde

IMAG, Université de Montpellier

Jean Peyhardi

IMAG, Université de Montpellier

Éric Marchand

Université de Sherbrooke

Frédéric Mortier

Forêts et Sociétés, CIRAD
16:00 - 16:15
Inference in Generalized Square-root Diffusion Processes with Possible Structural Change
Yunhong Lyu (Trent University)

Sévérien Nkurunziza

University of Windsor
16:15 - 16:30
Markov Processes for Enhanced Deepfake Generation and Detection
Ian Zhang (University of Toronto)

Jyoti Bhadana

University of Alberta

Michael Kouritzin

University of Alberta

Seoyeon Park

University of Alberta
16:30 - 16:45
On certain quaternionic matrix-variate models and their statistical properties
Serge B. Provost (The University of Western Ontario)