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Monday, 1 June, 2026

08:30 - 09:50

SSC Presidential Invited Address

Room: MDCL 1305/1307

08:30 - 09:50
A Surrogate Modeling Journey through Gaussian Processes Modeling for Computer Simulation Experiments
Robert B Gramacy (Virginia Tech)

10:20 - 11:50

Advances in Functional Data Analysis

Room: MDCL 1116

10:20 - 10:35
Simulation of Warping Processes
Nolwenn Le Méhauté
10:35 - 10:50
MIP-FoSR: Mixed Integer Programming for Variable Selection and Outlier Detection in Function-on-scalar Regression
Hedayat Fathi (Université Laval)

Bernardo D'Agostino

Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies

Ana Kenney

University of California, Irvine

Luca Insolia

University of Geneva

Francesca Chiaromonte

Pennsylvania State Universit

Marzia A. Cremona

Université Laval
10:50 - 11:05
Sparse Inference in Regularized Functional Regression Based on M-estimation
Lilian Yuan (McGill University)

Erica Moodie

McGill University

David Stephens

McGill University
11:05 - 11:20
funBIalign: a hierarchical algorithm for functional motif discovery
Marzia Angela Cremona (Université Laval)

Jacopo Di Iorio

Emory University

Francesca Chiaromonte

Pennsylvania State University
11:20 - 11:35
A Biclustering Method for Functional Data Analysis
Thierry Chekouo (University of Minnesota)

Yue Zhao

University of Minnesota

Sandra Safo

University of Minnesota
11:35 - 11:50
Clustering Track and Field Athlete Career Progressions Using Functional Data Analysis
David Awosoga (University of Waterloo)

Yushi Liu

University of Waterloo

Samuel Wong

University of Waterloo

Advances in Statistical Genetics I

Room: MDCL 1008

10:20 - 10:35
Comparison of An Affected Only Model and An Affected + Unaffected Model for Family Based Rare Variant Studies Using a Retrospective Likelihood
Ariane Tako Ange (Université Laval)

Alexandre Bureau

Université Laval

Catherine Laprise

Université du Quebec à Chicoutimi
10:35 - 10:50
Considering the Modifying Effect of Polygenic Risk Scores when Testing for Associations between Rare Variants and a Trait in Families
Saa Moussa Tenguiano (Laval University)

Loic Mangnier

Alexandre Bureau

Université Laval
10:50 - 11:05
Turning transmission into signal: prioritizing rare variants in families
Fabiha Binte Farooq (Simon Fraser University)
11:05 - 11:20
Breast Cancer Prediction Models Incorporating Time-dependent Variables for High-risk Families
Siriac Seboka (Université Laval)

Lakhal Chaieb M'Hamed Lajmi

Université Laval

Briollais Laurent

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Yun-Hee Choi

University of Western Ontario
11:20 - 11:35
Statistical Source Attribution of Antibody Deposits in Ovarian Cancer Using Physics-Informed Mixture Models
Rishabh Pabbi (University of Victoria)

Farouk Nathoo

University of Victoria

Victor Negrea Puskas

British Columbia Cancer Research Center

Céline Laumont

British Columbia Cancer Research Center

Brad Nelson

British Columbia Cancer Research Center
11:35 - 11:50
A Run Length Weighted Mean Difference Approach for Enhanced Feature Selection
Saeed Aldahmani (United Arab Emirates University)

Air Quality and Health: Data, Models, and Insights

Room: MDCL 1016

10:20 - 10:50
Estimating nonlinear cumulative exposure associations from overdispersed daily health outcome counts using penalized splines
Alex Stringer (University of Waterloo)

Tianyi Pan

University of Waterloo

Glen McGee

University of Waterloo

Hwashin Shin

Health Canada
10:50 - 11:20
Mechanistic Machine-Learning Approaches to Air Quality Prediction
Martin Lysy (University of Waterloo)
11:20 - 11:50
A Bayesian View on Lead-Lag Detection with an Application to Air Quality Data
Alexander Shestopaloff (University of Guelph)

Bridging Actuarial Science and Climate Risk

Room: MDCL 3024

10:20 - 10:50
Projected Streamflow for Gauged and Ungauged Basins Across Canada with Insurance Applications
Mathieu Boudreault (Université du Québec à Montréal)
10:50 - 11:20
Better Prices, Better Decisions: Modeling CAT Bond Premiums and Issuance Strategies
Hong Li (University of Guelph)

Yufan Lu

Melbourne University

David Pitt

Melbourne University

Rui Zhou

Melbourne University
11:20 - 11:50
Overview on the Nexus Between Climate Risk and Insurance Liabilities
Minh Chau Nguyen (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)

Tony Wirjanto

University of Waterloo

Fan Yang

University of Waterloo

Case Study #1: Developing and validating an implementation-ready model to classify Parkinson’s disease versus atypical parkinsonism using data from the Canadian Open Parkinson Network

Room: MDCL First Floor Hallways

10:20 - 11:50
Carleton University 1.1
Graham Gee

Hoang-Nam Chu

Carleton University

Matthew Lunn

Carleton University

Aidan Peters

Carleton University
10:20 - 11:50
Carleton University 1.2
Mithun Manivannan (Carleton University)

Damilola Olaiya

Carleton University
10:20 - 11:59
Langara College 1.1
Brooke Ham (Langara College)

Daniella Sare

Langara College
10:20 - 11:50
MacEwan University 1.1
Shashwat D Gujjar (MacEwan University)

Ruskin Luitel

MacEwan Univesity

Avishek Paudel

MacEwan Univesity
10:20 - 11:50
McGill University 1.1
Adrien da Silva (McGill University)

Jiayin Chen

McGill University

Chloe Si

McGill University
10:20 - 11:59
Simon Fraser University 1.1
Siying Sydney Ma (Simon Fraser University (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science))

Zikai Xu

Simon Fraser University
10:20 - 11:50
University of Manitoba 1.1
Noah Kenneth Regnander Farrell (University of Manitoba)

Randi Shashikala De Alwis Adambarage

University of Manitoba
10:20 - 11:50
University of Manitoba 1.2
Mohammad Alamgir Chowdhury (University of Manitoba)

Sanha Kill

University of Manitoba
10:20 - 11:50
University of Ottawa 1.1
Frank Ding Xu (University of Ottawa)

Sophie Halley

University of Ottawa

Robin Bilodeau

University of Ottawa
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto / Western University 1.1
Jasper Zhongyuan Zhang (University of Toronto)

Yuqing Liu

University of Toronto

Ganlin Fen

Western University

Yuxi Long

Western University
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.1
Tristin Wilson (University of Toronto)

Indira Mishra

University of Toronto

Yunfei Yu

University of Toronto

Yanwei Huang

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.2
Yousef Ibrahim (University of Toronto)

Mufidah Kayna

University of Toronto

Yaxuan Xie

University of Toronto

Eddison Pham

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.3
Qianyue (Lisa) Wang (University of Toronto)

Ever Hughes

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.4
Aditya Khan (University of Toronto)

Ian Zhang

University of Toronto

Hanlong Chen

University of Toronto

Emmett Peng

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.5
Wei-Hsin Chuan (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

Xiankai Yang

University of Toronto

Yunxin Li

University of Toronto

zien Gao

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.6
Abhinav Kansal (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

Xinyun Tan

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.7
Shuxi Wu (University of Toronto)

Yuehao Wang

University of Toronto

Javier Mencia

University of Toronto

Jianyue Bai

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.8
Eileen Yu (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

Jil Soni

University of Toronto

Yiwen Hou

University of Toronto

Feifei Fu

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Toronto 1.9
Jiayi Wang (University of Toronto)

Xinyi Chen

University of Toronto

Ruaa Ahmed

University of Toronto

Sadia Ahmad

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
University of Victoria 1.1
Puneet Velidi (University of Victoria)

Rishabh Pabbi

University of Victoria

Evan Strasdin

University of Victoria
10:20 - 11:50
University of Waterloo 1.1
Yixin Zhao (University of Waterloo)

Nafisat Ibrahim

University of Waterloo

Ronnie Min

University of Waterloo
10:20 - 11:50
University of Waterloo 1.2
Sijie Chen (University of Waterloo)

Mengqi Xu

University of Waterloo
10:20 - 11:50
Western University 1.1
Jiaqi Bi (University of Western Ontario)

Janrui Dou

Western University

Jialu Sun

Western University

Jiaqi Yuan

Western University

Discrete Choice Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Applications

Room: MDCL 1115

10:20 - 10:50
New Developments in Sequential Utility for Best-Worst Discrete Choice Models
Norou Diawara (Old Dominion University)

Alia Sajjad

McGill University

Sasanka Adikari

Department of Research and Statistics, Administrative office of Pennsylvania Courts, USA
10:50 - 11:20
How to design and conduct a discrete choice experiment: a case study
Thomas G Poder (Université de Montréal)
11:20 - 11:50
Recent Advances in the Design and Analysis of Network A/B tests
Nathaniel Tyler Stevens (University of Waterloo)

Trang Bui

University of Saskatchewan

Stefan Steiner

University of Waterloo

Harnessing Machine Learning for Causal Inference: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions

Room: MDCL 1110

10:20 - 10:50
Graph-Based Causal Variance Decompositions: When "Variance Explained" Means causation
Olli Saarela (University of Toronto)

Juha Karvanen

University of Jyväskylä
10:50 - 11:20
Comparing TMLE variants: Cross-fit and cross-validated approaches for robust causal effect estimation
M Ehsan Karim (The University of British Columbia)

Rainie Fu

University of British Columbia
11:20 - 11:50
Positivity in causal mediation analysis? Checked!
Arthur Chatton (Université de Montréal)

Geneviève Lefebvre

Université du Québec à Montréal

Jesse Gervais

Université du Québec à Montréal

Mireille Schnitzer

Université de Montréal

Denis Talbot

Université Laval

New Frontiers in Bayesian Analysis, Computation, and Modelling

Room: MDCL 2230

10:20 - 10:35
Variational Bayesian Multidimensional Scaling
Samuel Morrissette (University of Manitoba)
10:35 - 10:50
Likelihood Tempering to Mitigate Prior Dominance in Variational Inference for Bayesian Neural Networks
Ian Zhang (University of Toronto)

Thibault Randrianarisoa

University of Toronto
10:50 - 11:05
Individualized Model Allocation in Hierarchical Models with Fixed Compute Budget
Karen Fletcher (Carleton University)

David A Campbell

Carleton University
11:05 - 11:20
Modelling Tag Loss and Retagging without Permanent Individual Identification: An application to Antarctic Fur Seals
Laura L.E. Cowen (University of Victoria)

Arjun Banik

University of Victoria

Saman Muthukumarana

University of Manitoba
11:20 - 11:35
Fast Variational Bayesian Algorithm for Multi-event Dynamic Capture-Recapture modelling of Big COVID-19 data
Kehinde I. Olobatuyi (University of Victoria)

Arjun Banik

University of Victoria

Laura Cowen

University of Victoria
11:35 - 11:50
Identifying Memory Mechanisms in Bayesian Models of Behavioural Change During Epidemics
Yicheng Mao (University of Calgary)

Rob Deardon

University of Calgary

Lorna Deeth

University of Guelp

New Investigator Presentation Award Competition in Biostatistics

Room: MDCL 1010

10:20 - 10:35
Smooth Zero-Inflated Modeling on Counting Tensors
Elena Tuzhilina (University of Toronto)
10:35 - 10:50
Functional Multi-state Joint Model for Irregular Longitudinal Data
Xi Zhang (The Hospital for Sick Children)

Eleanor Pullenayegum

The Hospital of Sick Children
10:50 - 11:05
Statistical considerations for estimating bivariate trajectories in hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials
Marc Angelo Parsons (McGill University)

Guillaume Fontaine

McGill Unviersity

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

McMaster University
11:05 - 11:20
Value of Information with Posterior-Dependent Constraints
Olivia Adair (The Hospital for Sick Children)

Petros Pechlivanoglou

The Hospital for Sick Children

Anna Heath

The Hospital for Sick Children
11:20 - 11:35
Causal inference for repeated events, case-crossover or case-control: application to sport injuries
Brice Batomen (University of Toronto/Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

George Stefan

University of Toronto

Aya Mitanni

University of Toronto

Ian Shrier

McGill University

Dhiren Naidu

University of Alberta

Robert McCormack
11:35 - 11:50
Mixture-of-Experts Models for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Propensity Score Adjustment
Peng Tang (University of Ottawa)

Novel Methodologies for Federated Analysis in Clinical Research

Room: MDCL 1009

10:20 - 11:50
Novel Methodologies for Federated Analysis in Clinical Research
Lisa M. Lix (University of Manitoba)

Cori Campbell

University of Oxford

Steve Drew

University of Calgary

Tolu Sajobi

University of Calgary

Megan Harmon

University of Calgary

Practical Strategies for Selecting Examples and Datasets in the Statistics Classroom

Room: MDCL 1309

10:20 - 11:50
Practical Strategies for Selecting Examples and Datasets in the Statistics Classroom
Michael Wallace (University of Waterloo)

Hanna Jankowski

York University

Danika M. Lipman

University of Calgary

Recent Advances about Change-Point Methods and Inference in Stochastic Processes

Room: MDCL 3022

10:20 - 10:50
Recursive Multiple Change Point Detection of Nonstationary Time Series: Instability Tests, Estimation and Confidence Intervals
Zhou Zhou (University of Toronto)
10:50 - 11:20
Multiple changepoint detection for non-Gaussian time series
Robert B Lund (University of California, Santa Cruz)
11:20 - 11:50
Inference Methods for Generalized CIR process with Potential Structural Breaks
Yunhong Lyu (Trent University)

Sévérien Nkurunziza

University of Windsor

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Statistics I

Room: MDCL 2232

10:20 - 10:35
Prediction and Model Assessment of Regression Models with Circular Data
Nimsara Hansinee Dissanayaka Hapudeniya Widanalage (University of Guelph)
10:35 - 10:50
Regression for Sparse Matrices with Covariates and Autocorrelation
Khaled Fouda (HEC Montréal)

Aurelie Labbe

HEC Montreal

Karim Oualkacha

University of Quebec in Montreal
10:50 - 11:05
Semi-Implicit Approaches for Large-Scale Bayesian Spatial Interpolation
Sébastien Garneau (McGill University)

Carlos T. P. Zanini

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Alexandra M. Schmidt

McGill University
11:05 - 11:20
Mixtures of Spatial Factor Analyzers for Tensor-Variate Data
Hanzhang Lu (The University of British Columbia)

Jeffrey Andrews

University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus
11:20 - 11:35
Sparse Group LASSO in Finite Mixture Regression Models
Vinay Joshy (University of Guelph)

Grace Stelter

University of Guelph

Zeny Feng

University of Guelph

Alysha Cooper

University of Guelph

Lorna Deeth

University of Guelph
11:35 - 11:50
Adaptivity of the NPMLE to finitely discrete mixing distributions in Gaussian/Poisson mixtures
Yan Zhang (University of Toronto)

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Survey Methods

Room: MDCL 2233

10:20 - 10:35
Calibration-Based Methods for Nonignorable Non-Probability Survey Samples
Yixin Ding (University of Waterloo)
10:35 - 10:50
RSS Bagging for Predictive Models in the Regression Setting
Madhawa K. B. Hulangamuwa (University of Manitoba)

Mohammad Jafari Jozani

University of Manitoba
10:50 - 11:05
Relative Efficiency of Generalized Regression and Horvitz–Thompson Estimators in an Assumption-Lean Framework
Mila Pourali (McGill University)

Mehdi Dagdoug

McGill University
11:05 - 11:20
Agnostic Model-Assisted Estimation with Machine Learning for Survey Data
Ziming An (University of Ottawa)
11:20 - 11:35
Sensitivity Analysis for ANAR and MNAR: A Double‑Weighted Method with a Delta Variant
Xiangshan Kong (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)
11:35 - 11:50
Quantile-Based Detection of Ecological Thresholds and Sampling Sensitivity: Zoobenthos in the Detroit River, Canada
Feng Gu (Thompson Rivers University)

Jian Zhang

Freshwater Institute

Jan J.H Ciborowski

University of Calgary

Yue Zhang

Thompson Rivers University

Jabed H. Tomal

Thompson Rivers University

13:30 - 15:00

Case Study #2: Clustering for Cardiovascular Risk Prediction in Type 2 Diabetes Using Routinely Reported ECG and EHR Data

Room: MDCL First Floor Hallways

13:30 - 15:00
13:30 - 15:00
MacEwan University 2.1
Isaiah R Zackus (Grant MacEwan University)

Taryn Shepherd

MacEwan Univesity

Osman Jime

MacEwan Univesity

Kevin Tran

MacEwan Univesity
13:30 - 15:00
McGill University 2.1
Feng Yan (McGill University)

Mincen Liu

McGill University

Xinyu Chen

McGill University
13:30 - 15:00
McGill University 2.2
Mark Lamin (McGill University)

Wenxin Guo

McGill University

Priyonto Saha

McGill University
13:30 - 15:00
McMaster University 2.1
Sayeda Hossain (McMaster University)

Medha Pandey

McMaster University

Rubab Masaba

McMaster University
13:30 - 15:00
Multiple Universities 2.1
Jingwen Ji (York University)

Yuhong Zhang

Nanjing Medical University

Mianzhi Wu

Toronto Metropolitan University

Yuwen Zhang

University of Waterloo
13:30 - 15:00
Simon Fraser University 2.1
Alana Deng (Simon Fraser University)

Suhani Daruka

Simon Fraser University
13:30 - 15:00
University of British Columbia 2.1
Babak Fathollahi Dehkordi (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

Hanzhang Lu

University of British Columbia
13:30 - 15:00
University of Guelph 2.1
Luis Miguel Roldan Alzate (University of Guelph)

Ayisha Najeeha Chovvakkaranorkatteriyil Kunhi

University of Guelph

Nimsara Hansinee Dissanayaka

University of Guelph
13:30 - 15:00
University of Manitoba 2.1
Md Hasan (University of Manitoba)

Oluwagbenga Fakanye

University of Manitoba

Maziar Fazel Darbandi

University of Manitoba
13:30 - 15:00
University of Manitoba 2.2
Avanthi Saumyamala Moragammana Gedara (University of Manitoba)

Shalini Jayanetti

University of Manitoba

Wewalage Sara Ridmi Fernando

University of Manitoba

Anushi Arvin

University of Manitoba
13:30 - 15:00
University of Toronto 2.1
Alisha Pham (University of Toronto)

Olivia Yujing Wei

University of Toronto

Erin Liu

University of Toronto

Jianyang Xiao

University of Toronto
13:30 - 15:00
University of Toronto 2.4
Marshal Zhu (University of Toronto Scarborough)

Jiajun Lei

University of Toronto

Bomin Kim

University of Toronto

Le Minh Thu Nguyen

University of Toronto
13:30 - 15:00
University of Toronto 2.6
Raissa Shrestha (University of Toronto)

Jianyue (Evelyn) Bai

University of Toronto

Soohyun Yoon

University of Toronto

Wendy Shue

University of Toronto
13:30 - 15:00
University of Victoria 2.1
Yasaman Shahhosseini (University of Victoria)

Shibai Zhang

University of Victoria

Muskaan Ali

University of Victoria

Advances in Causal Inference: Tackling Missing Data, Study Designs, and Multi-Source Integration in Health Research

Room: MDCL 1009

13:30 - 14:00
Joint Modelling for Causal Inference on Missing Exposures under Missing Not at Random Assumption
Yeying Zhu (University of Waterloo)

Yuliang Shi

University of Waterloo

Joel Dubin

University of Waterloo
14:00 - 14:30
Causal Inference via Propensity Scores for Case-Control Studies
Mireille Schnitzer (Université de Montréal)

Liu Yan

Université de Montréal

Talbot Denis

Université Laval

Koushik Anita

McGill University

Mésidor Miceline

INRS

Jiang Cong

Harvard University
14:30 - 15:00
Multi-source analyses of average treatment effects with failure time outcomes
Lan Wen (University of Waterloo)

Advances in Data Privacy

Room: MDCL 2233

13:30 - 14:00
Promoting “Gold Standard Science” in Privacy and Confidentiality Research
Michael Brewster Hawes (U.S. Census Bureau)
14:00 - 14:30
Fully Synthetic Data for Complex Surveys
Yajuan Si (University of Michigan)

Shirley Mathur

University of Washington

Jerry Reiter

Duke University
14:30 - 15:00
AI-Driven Synthetic Data Generation for Complex Data
Minsun K Riddles (Westat)

Advances in Survival Data Analysis

Room: MDCL 1008

13:30 - 13:45
Joint Models of Two Longitudinal Biomarkers and Clustered Survival Data for Dynamic Prediction with Application to Periodontitis
Xinyang Feng (University of Toronto)

Laurent Briollais

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON

Aya Mitani

Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
13:45 - 14:00
Hierarchical Gaussian Process Landmarking and Cluster-Aware Metrics for Tooth-Level Survival
Hanlong Chen (Dalla Lana School of Public Health/University of Toronto/ Baycrest)

Malcolm Binns

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto/ Baycrest

Aya Mitani

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
14:00 - 14:15
MAP-EM Polya Trees for Survival Analysis with Complex Censoring
Yixing Zhao (University of Waterloo)

Liqun Diao

University of Waterloo
14:15 - 14:30
Randomization-Based Inference for Median Survival under Dependent Censoring
Elif Fidan Acar (University of Guelph)
14:30 - 14:45
Compatible Multiple Imputation for the Weibull Proportional Hazards Mixture Cure Model
Changchang Xu (University of Toronto)

Laurent Briollais

Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health

Irene Andrulis

Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto; Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health

Shelley Bull

Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health

Highlighting SSC's Statistics Education and Outreach Committees Initiatives

Room: MDCL 3023

13:30 - 15:00
Highlighting SSC's Statistics Education and Outreach Committees Initiatives
Bingrui (Cindy) Sun (University of Calgary)

Samantha-Jo Caetano

University of Toronto

Katherine Davies

McMaster University

Tatiana Krikella

York University

Innovative Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Emerging Challenges in Biomedical Research

Room: MDCL 1110

13:30 - 14:00
Distributional Transfer Learning in the Evaluation of Epigenetic Aging Acceleration
Peter X. Song (University of Michigan)

Peter Song

University of Michigan

Menghan Yi

University of Michigan

Canyi Chen

University of Michigan
14:00 - 14:30
Efficient Learning for Adaptive Design of Clinical Trials
Yanqing Yi (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Xikui Wang

University of Manitoba
14:30 - 15:00
Boosting Methods for Interval Censored Data with Regression and Classification
Wenqing He (University of Western Ontario)

Isobel Loutit Invited Address

Room: MDCL 1309

13:30 - 15:00
Design of Experiments: A Mindset, Not a Method - Perspectives from an Industrial Statistician
Ryan Lekivetz (SAS Institute INc)

Modern Frontiers in Robust Statistics: Design, Assessment, and Methodology

Room: MDCL 1016

13:30 - 14:00
Beyond Classical Prediction Problems: A Selective Review of Random Forests for Complex Data and Specialized Analytical Tasks
Denis Larocque (HEC Montréal)
14:00 - 14:30
Copula-based joint modeling of emergency department visits with time-varying dependence
Cindy Feng (Dalhousie University)

Guanjie Lyu

Dalhousie University

Lihui Liu

Dalhousie University
14:30 - 15:00
Multiple-objective optimality criteria for regression designs
Julie Zhou (University of Victoria)

New Investigator Presentation Award Competition in Data Science and Analytics

Room: MDCL 2232

13:30 - 13:45
A Leave-One-Out Influence Statistic for Scalable Density-Based Outlier Detection
Aurélien Nicosia (Université Laval)

Duchesne Thierry

Université Laval

Carbon Michel

Université Laval
13:45 - 14:00
Robust Multitask Feature Learning with Adaptive Huber Regressions
Yuan Zhong (University Health Network)
14:00 - 14:15
Adaptive Transfer Learning from Multiple Heterogeneous Sources
Subha Maity (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)
14:15 - 14:30
Unveiling Mortality Trends in Saskatchewan: A forecast Combination-Based Neural Network Approach
Erfan Hoque (University of Saskatchewan)
14:30 - 14:45
Interpretable Offline Reinforcement Learning with Behaviour Regularization for Composite Clinical Objectives
Divya Sharma (York University)

Jingwen Ji

York University

Janarthanan Rajendran

Dalhousie University

Nonparametric Methods for Ranking Data

Room: MDCL 1116

13:30 - 14:00
Multi-graph graph neural network for preference data
Philip L.H. Yu (The Education University of Hong Kong)

Zhuang Yipeng

The University of Hong Kong

Wang Chenlu

The University of Hong Kong
14:00 - 14:30
Two Group Tests of Hypotheses for Umbrella Alternatives
Mayer Alvo (University of Ottawa)
14:30 - 15:00
The Bayesian Mallows Model for Tied Rankings
Valeria Vitelli (University of Oslo)

Stochastic Models of Epidemic Progression and Persistence

Room: MDCL 3022

13:30 - 14:00
The probability that an Emerging Infectious Disease will Burn Out
David Earn (McMaster University)

Ben Bolker

McMaster University, Depts of Biology and Mathematics & Statistics

Jonathan Dushoff

McMaster University, Dept of Biology

Todd Parsons

CNRS and Sorbonne University, Paris
14:00 - 14:30
Vital Dynamics, Immune Waning, and Final Size Formulae
Todd Parsons (CNRS & Sorbonne Université)

David Earn

McMaster University

Jonathan Dushoff

McMaster University

Benjamin Bolker

McMaster University
14:30 - 15:00
Stochastic Metapopulation Dynamics of Plague Virulence Evolution
Benjamin Bolker (McMaster University)

Yuyang Zhang

University of Science and Technology of China

Jonathan Dushoff

McMaster University

David J. D. Earn

McMaster

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Actuarial Science and Finance

Room: MDCL 3024

13:30 - 13:45
Dynamic Pareto Optima in Multi-Period Pure-Exchange Economies
Brandon Tam (University of Toronto)

Mario Ghossoub

University of Waterloo

Silvana M. Pesenti

University of Toronto
13:45 - 14:00
Imitation Learning with Latent Market Parameters in Continuous-Time Portfolio Control
Mark Frankli (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Makarov Roman

Wilfrid Laurier University

Wang Xu (Sunny)

Wilfrid Laurier University
14:00 - 14:15
Sentiment-Augmented Stochastic Modelling of Financial Assets
Mostafa Abdolahi Moghadam Salkoye (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Roman Makarov

Wilfrid Laurier University
14:15 - 14:30
A Dichotomous Solution to a Dividend and Injection Optimization Problem
Tommy Mastromonaco (Université du Québec à Montréal)
14:30 - 14:45
Modeling Hail Hazard: Distorted Hierarchical Copulas and Insurance Claims in a Spatio‑Temporal Framework
Nahid Sadr (Université de Sherbrooke)

Klaus Herrmann

Université de Sherbrooke

Mélina Mailhot

Concordia University
14:45 - 15:00
Phased Retirement in a Life-Cycle Framework
Raushan Zhumanova (Western University)

Shu Li

Western University

Matthew Davison

Western University

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Biostatistics I

Room: MDCL 1010

13:30 - 13:45
Change Point Detection for Growth Rate in the Early Stage of Epidemics using the Hidden Markov Model
Shiyu Xu (University of Victoria)

Junling Ma

University of Victoria

Li Xing

University of Saskatchewan

Xuekui Zhang

University of Victoria
13:45 - 14:00
Spatio-Temporal Poisson Process Modeling for Infectious Disease: An Alternative to Individual-Level Models
Md Hasan (University of Manitoba)

Razvan Romanescu

University of Manitoba

Mahmoud Torabi

University of Manitoba
14:00 - 14:15
Decoupling risk and masking in mammographic density under irregular follow-up using a latent Markov progression–detection framework
Furkan Berk Danisman (University of Toronto)

Zarina Oflaz

Qatar University

Zeynep Kalaylioglu

Middle East Technical University

Mahmut Onur Kulturoglu

Etlik City Hospital Oncology

Lutfi Dogan

Etlik City Hospital Oncology
14:15 - 14:30
Efficient Crossover Switching Designs for Biosimilar Development and Interchangeability Assessment
Yuqing Liu (University of Toronto)

Wendy Lou

University of Toronto

Shein-Chung Chow

Duke University
14:30 - 14:45
Reporting Delays for Time to Event Outcomes in Registry-Based Trials
Lily Zou (University of Waterloo)

Richard Cook

University of Waterloo
14:45 - 15:00
Incorporating Missingness in the Generation of Realistic Synthetic Trial Data
Niki Z. Petrakos (McGill University)

Erica E. M. Moodie

McGill University

Nicolas Savy

Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse

15:30 - 17:00

Advances in Extreme Value Analysis

Room: MDCL 2230

15:30 - 15:45
A dynamic model for extreme hourly precipitation
Debbie J. Dupuis (HEC Montréal)

Carlotta Pacifici

University of Bologna

Luca Trapin

University of Bologna
15:45 - 16:00
Joint Modeling of Multi-Scale Extreme Precipitation for IDF Curves
Jonathan Jalbert (Polytechnique Montreal)

Christian Genest

McGill University

Paul Mathivon

Polytechnique Montréal
16:00 - 16:15
Amortized Bayesian Inference for High Quantiles: QuantilePFN
Chengguo Weng (University of Waterloo)

Yuqi Jing

University of Waterloo

Daniel Zhang

University of Waterloo
16:15 - 16:30
Convolution-Smoothed Quantile XGBoost for Estimating Environmental Exposure Extremes
Mandy Yao (University of Toronto)

Meredith Franklin

University of Toronto
16:30 - 16:45
Inference for Truncated Discrete Pareto Models with Application to Polypharmacy Networks
Xiang Raney-Yan (Niagara College)

Mei Ling Huang

Brock University
16:45 - 17:00
Testing for Cure-Rate and Sufficient Follow-Up Under Random Censoring using Extreme-Value Theory
Maryam Jabbari Khasraghi (Concordia University)

Arusharka Sen

Concordia University

Advances in Model-Based Clustering

Room: MDCL 1009

15:30 - 16:00
Compositional mixture models
Jeffrey L. Andrews (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

Liam Welsh

University of Toronto

Ryan Browne

University of Waterloo
16:00 - 16:30
Clustering longitudinal microbiome trajectories using a mixture of logistic matrix-normal multinomial distributions
Sanjeena Dang (Carleton University)

Yuan Fang

Old Dominion University

Wenshu Dai

Binghamton University
16:30 - 17:00
Parsimonious Ultrametric Mixture Models for Matrix-Variate Data
Alexa A. Sochaniwsky (McMaster University)

Giorgia Zaccaria

University of Milano-Bicocca

Paul D. McNicholas

McMaster University

Applied Professional Consulting and Collaborating Practices

Room: MDCL 1309

15:30 - 17:00
Applied Professional Consulting and Collaborating Practices
James H. McVittie (University of Regina)

May Raad

HDR Corporation

Charmaine Dean

University of Waterloo

Jack Davis

University of Waterloo

Bayesian Methods for Multiplicity, Information Borrowing, and Precision Medicine

Room: MDCL 1008

15:30 - 16:00
Bayesian Design with False Discovery Rates and Power
Luke Hagar (The University of Queensland)

Nathaniel T. Stevens

University of Waterloo
16:00 - 16:30
Summary-Anchored Normalized Power Priors for Bayesian Adaptive Enrichment Trials
Lara Maleyeff (McGill University)
16:30 - 17:00
Doubly-Robust Bayesian Estimation of Individualized Treatment Rules via Network Meta-Analysis
Augustine Wigle (McGill University)

Erica E. M. Moodie

McGill University

Innovative Tools for Statistical Education

Room: MDCL 3023

15:30 - 15:45
Revamping an Introductory Probability Course Through R-Incorporated Active Learning Approaches
Asal Aslemand (University of Toronto at Mississauga)

Sinan Ma

University of Toronto Mississauaga
15:45 - 16:00
In-Depth Exploration of Linear Regression Concepts through Self-Paced learnr Modules
Katherine Daignault (University of Toronto)
16:00 - 16:15
Roger: An Automated Grading System for R Scripts... and Much More!
Vincent Goulet (Université Laval)
16:15 - 16:30
Implementing an Interactive Bayes’ Theorem Lab in a Large Introductory Statistics Course
Lasantha Premarathna (University of British Columbia)

Rachel Lobay

University of British Columbia
16:30 - 16:45
Teaching Technical Students to Present: A Structured Framework for Statistics and Actuarial Courses
Mirabelle Huynh (University of Waterloo)
16:45 - 17:00
Evaluating Blended Learning in Undergraduate Statistics Education
Tharshanna Nadarajah (McGill University)

Modernizing Biostatistics Education for Graduate Health Sciences: Innovations, Gaps, and Future Directions

Room: MDCL 1110

15:30 - 17:00
Modernizing Biostatistics Education for Graduate Health Sciences: Innovations, Gaps, and Future Directions
Qihuang Zhang (McGill University)

Kuan Liu

University of Toronto

Ehsan Karim

University of British Columbia

Celia Greenwood

McGill University

Robert Platt

McGill University

New Frontiers in Survey Sampling and Experimental Design

Room: MDCL 2233

15:30 - 15:45
Predicting Quality of a Survey Item from the Question Text
Tiancheng Yang (University of Waterloo)

Matthias Schonlau

University of Waterloo

Lydia Repke

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Barbara Felderer

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Ilia Sucholutsky

New York University
15:45 - 16:00
Unsupervised Detection of Careless Responding in Likert-type Questionnaires with Covariates
Michael John Ilagan (University of Alberta)

Carl Falk

McGill University
16:00 - 16:15
Recalibration Improves the Quality of Semi-Automated Classification for Open-Ended Questions
Hyukjun Jay Gweon (Western University)

Matthias Schonlau

University of Waterloo
16:15 - 16:30
Probabilistic Record Linkage for Social Data: Can the Past Guide the Present?
François A. Marshall (Statistics Canada)
16:30 - 16:45
Assessing count measurement systems without a gold standard
Megan French (University of Waterloo)

Ryan Browne

Univeristy of Waterloo

Stefan Steiner

University of Waterloo
16:45 - 17:00
Construction of Balanced Orthogonal Split-Plot Designs
Qiao Tang (University of Manitoba)

Po Yang

University of Manitoba

Noise in Neural Systems: Statistical Methods, Role and Function

Room: MDCL 3022

15:30 - 16:00
Accounting for Replication Noise in Model Selection
Alexandre René ( RWTH Aachen)
16:00 - 16:30
Stochastic Propagation in Neural Mass Models: A Novel Envelope-Phase Framework for Spatiotemporal Traveling Waves
Sadrack Arthur Powanwe (University of Western Ontario)
16:30 - 17:00
Data-Driven Modelling of Neurophysiological and Behavioural Data in Electric Fish
Alexandre Melanson (Université de Moncton)

Recent Advancements in Complex and Correlated Data Analysis

Room: MDCL 1016

15:30 - 16:00
Trustworthy Post-Estimation Strategies in High-Dimensional Sparse Regression
S. Ejaz Ahmed (Brock University)
16:00 - 16:30
Constrained Inference for Mixed Models with Missing Data
Sanjoy Sinha (Carleton University)
16:30 - 17:00
Logistic Box‑Cox Regression and Its Improvement Through Ensemble Learning
Li Xing (University of Saskatchewan)

Recent Advances in Quantitative Finance

Room: MDCL 3024

15:30 - 16:00
Backtesting Expected Shortfall: Accounting for both Duration and Severity with Bivariate Orthogonal Polynomials
Yang Lu (Concordia University Montreal)

Hue Sullivan

Aix-Marseille University

Hurlin Christophe

University of Orleans
16:00 - 16:30
Multivariate affine GARCH in portfolio optimization. Analytical solutions and applications
Marcos Escobar-Anel (Western University)
16:30 - 17:00
Bayesian Clustering for Portfolio Credit Risk
Christoph Frei (University of Alberta)

Bohdan Horak

University of Alberta

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Biostatistics II

Room: MDCL 1010

15:30 - 15:45
Varying-Coefficient Mixture of Experts Model
Qicheng Zhao (McGill University)
15:45 - 16:00
Surrogate-Guided Classification with Noisy Labels via Mixture Modeling
Lujia Long (University of Calgary)
16:00 - 16:15
A Bayesian Framework for Evaluating the Proportional Hazards Assumption in Joint Models
Vindya Prabhawi Kahatapitiye Eriyan Daluwage (University of Saskatchewan)

Shahedul A. Khan

University of Saskatchewan
16:15 - 16:30
Root Identifiability in High-Dimensional Bayesian Networks via Structured Sparse Priors
Bertrand Sodjahin (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)

Alex Stringer

University of Waterloo

Shoja Chenouri

University of Waterloo
16:30 - 16:45
Quantile-Gated Variational Autoencoder: Applications to High-Dimensional Genomic Data of Small Sample Sizes
Ariel Ghislain Kamdoum Kemogne (University of Calgary)
16:45 - 17:00
Zero-Inflated Measures of Association with Applications in Microbiome Data
Munmun Roy (York University)

Xin Gao

York University

Kevin McGregor

University of Manitoba

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Data Science and Analytics

Room: MDCL 2232

15:30 - 15:45
A Bayesian Framework for Post-disruption Travel Time Prediction in Metro Networks
Shayan Nazemi (HEC Montréal)
15:45 - 16:00
Spectral Clustering under Distributional Constraints via Optimal Transport with Fairness-Aware Applications
Jesse Ghashti (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

John R. J. Thompson

University of British Columbia

Warren Hare

University of British Columbia
16:00 - 16:15
Residual-Based Conformal Prediction with Localized and Global Calibrations
Xiangshi Li (Western University)

Wenqing He

Western University
16:15 - 16:30
Sparsity Meets Low-Rank: A Stein-Based Framework for Unbiased Risk Estimation in Matrix Denoising
Luis Sierra Muntané (University of Toronto)
16:30 - 16:45
Partial Adherence Weighting for Stable Estimation of Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Chloe Si (McGill University)

David A. Stephens

McGill University

Erica E.M. Moodie

McGill University
16:45 - 17:00
Causal Effect Estimation with Balanced Representation Learning for High-Dimensional Covariates
Gujie Fu (Western University)

Grace Y. Yi

Western University

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Statistics II (Bachelor/Masters)

Room: MDCL 1116

15:30 - 15:45
Adaptive Confidence Sets for Sobolev Regular Densities Under Local Differential Privacy
Aditya Khan (University of Toronto)

Thibault Randrianarisoa

University of Toronto
15:45 - 16:00
Second-order Least Squares Method for Statistical Inference in Linear Models with Asymmetric Errors
Sanha Kil (University of Manioba)

Liqun Wang

University of Manitoba

Yuliya Martsynyuk

University of Manitoba
16:00 - 16:15
Enhanced Support Vector Regression with Outlier Insensitive Loss Function
Gayathri Subasinghe (University of Manitoba)

Mohammad Jafari Jozani

University of Manitoba

Kevin McGregor

University of Manitoba
16:15 - 16:30
A Bayesian Semiparametric Model for Survival Analysis with a Right Censored Covariate
Puneet Velidi (University of Victoria)

Maryclare Griffin

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Juxin Liu

University of Saskatchewan

Brian Richardson

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Jing Qian

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Roland Matsouaka

Duke University

Sujit Ghosh

North Carolina State University

Tanya Garcia

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Farouk Nathoo

University of Victoria
16:30 - 16:45
Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of the Long-Memory Parameter from the WU-Minn Human Connectome Project Young Adult Dataset
Muskaan Danish Ali (University of Victoria)
16:45 - 17:00
A Scalable Probabilistic Programming Language With JAX
Todd Pocuca (McMaster University)

17:10 - 19:10

Information on NSERC Competition Results and Discovery Grant Application Preparation

Room: MDCL 1110

17:10 - 19:10
Information on NSERC Competition Results and Discovery Grant Application Preparation
Adèle Ngi-Song (NSERC)

Adam Clay

University of Manitoba

Tuesday, 2 June, 2026

08:30 - 09:50

SSC 2025 Gold Medal Address

Room: MDCL 1305/1307

08:30 - 09:50
From ML to ML: Two Disciplines, One Mission — Making Sense of Imperfect Data
Grace Y. Yi (University of Western Ontario)

10:20 - 11:50

A Day in the Life: Working in Drug Development as a Statistician

Room: MDCL 1110

10:20 - 11:50
A Day in the Life: Working in Drug Development as a Statistician
Emmy Ji Cheng (Hoffmann-La Roche Limited (Roche Canada))

Armando Turchetta

AstraZeneca

Melanie Chan

AstraZeneca

Advances in Actuarial Modelling

Room: MDCL 3024

10:20 - 10:35
Quantifying Epistemic Uncertainty in Gradient-boosted Actuarial Models
Marie-Pier Côté (Université Laval)

Dominik Chevalier

Université Laval
10:35 - 10:50
Optimal Hurdle Rate and Investment Policy in Lifetime Pension Pools
Jean-François Bégin (Simon Fraser University)
10:50 - 11:05
A Tale of Two Pathways to Gompertz Mortality
Kenneth Q. Zhou (University of Waterloo)

Guoqian Li

University of Waterloo

Xiaobai Zhu

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:05 - 11:20
Robust Poisson GLM and Applications in Property and Casualty Insurance
Olivier Poulin (Université de Montréal)
11:20 - 11:35
Modeling Insurance Data with Coverage Modifications: The Easier Way
Jérémy Déraspe (Université Laval)

Vincent Goulet

École d'actuariat, Université Laval
11:35 - 11:50
Optimal Insurance Contract Under Decision-Dependent Ambiguity Set
Corina Birghila (University of Lethbridge)

Advances in Modelling of Multilayer and Dynamic Networks

Room: MDCL 1115

10:20 - 10:50
Gamma-Poisson-Gamma Bayesian Tensor Decomposition in International Trade
Jie Jian (University of Chicago)
10:50 - 11:20
Continuous Latent Space Representations of Networks from Event Data
Owen G. Ward (Simon Fraser University)

Jie Jian

University of Chicago

Jiguo Cao

Simon Fraser University
11:20 - 11:50
In Memoriam Pierre Miasnikof
Alexander Shestopaloff (University of Guelph)

Advances in Statistical Genetics II

Room: MDCL 1008

10:20 - 10:35
Factorized Sparse Linear Mixed Model Incorporating Graphical Structure
Jia Wei He (University of Guelph)
10:35 - 10:50
Revisiting Attenuation Bias and Variance Inflation in GWAS with Imputed Genotypes
Ayisha Najeeha Cok (University of Guelph)

Elif F. Acar

University of Guelph
10:50 - 11:05
Integrating Morphology and Gene Expression of Brain Cells in Unpaired Single-Cell Data using GeoAdvAE
Kevin Z Lin (University of Washington)

Turbo Du

University of Washington

Tom Chartrand

Allen Institute

Suman Jayadev

University of Washington

Katherine Prater

University of Washington
11:05 - 11:20
Case-Control Genome-Wide Association Study of Rolandic Epilepsy Suggests Role of Neuronal Signalling Loci
Daniel Del Rosso (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

Deb K. Pal

Department of Basic and Clinical Neurosciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London; MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King’s College London, London, UK

Lisa J. Strug

Departments of Statistical Sciences and Computer Science and Division of Biostatistics, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
11:20 - 11:35
Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis of Single-cell RNA Sequencing Data
Jing Wang (University of Saskatchewan)

Developments in Modern Bayesian Statistics

Room: MDCL 3023

10:20 - 10:50
Bayesian Semiparametric Canonical Correlation Analysis
Jordan Grey Bryan (University of Virginia)

Jonathan Niles-Weed

New York University

Peter Hoff

Duke University
10:50 - 11:20
On the Fundamental Limits to Learning Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Deep Generative Models
Edric Tam (Stanford University)
11:20 - 11:50
A Stochastic Variational Inference Approach to the Graphical LASSO
Kevin McGregor (University of Manitoba)

New Frontiers in Temporal and Spatial Modelling

Room: MDCL 1116

10:20 - 10:35
Generalized Covariance Estimator under Misspecification and Constraints
Aryan Manafi Neyazi (York University)
10:35 - 10:50
Nonparametric Tests for Change in the Mean with Significantly Higher Power for Changes Near the Beginning or End of the Sample
Callum Lehingrat (University of Manitoba)

Dr. Yuliya V. Martsynyuk

University of Manitoba
10:50 - 11:05
Intervention Analysis for Time Series of Proportions
Melody Ghahramani (University of Winnipeg)

Shakhawat Hossain

University of Winnipeg

Fan Ye

Ohio Northern University

Antonio Axalan

University of Winnipeg
11:05 - 11:20
Point Processes Obtained from Critical Points of a Gaussian Random Field
Jean-François Coeurjolly (Univ. Grenobles Alpes, France)
11:20 - 11:35
Improving temporal consistency of gridded meteorological fields using regularized spatial pattern regression
Vihotogbé Edouard Houssou (Polytechnique Montreal)

Julie Carreau

Polytehcnique Montreal
11:35 - 11:50
Dependent Random Partitions for Spatio-Temporal Data
Giulio Beltramin (Politecnico di Milano)

Alessandra Guglielmi

Politecnico di Milano

Fernando Andrés Quintana

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Alexandra M. Schmidt

McGill University

New Investigator Presentation Award Competition in Probability and Statistics

Room: MDCL 2230

10:20 - 10:35
On the Cut-Offs of Optimal Transport Based Statistical Tests
Natalia Kravtsova (University of British Columbia)
10:35 - 10:50
Tweedie-based Density Estimation for Semicontinuous Data
Guanjie Lyu (Dalhousie University)

Frédéric Ouimet

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Cindy Feng

Dalhousie University
10:50 - 11:05
A Class of Multivariate Bernoulli Distributions Generated by an Aggregation-Tree Model
Samuel Valiquette (Université de Sherbrooke)

Genest Christian

McGill University

Nešlehová Johanna

McGill University
11:05 - 11:20
Closure of Noncentral Wishart Mixtures and Exact Testing of Random Effects in Multivariate Factorial Designs
Frédéric Ouimet (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
11:20 - 11:35
Covariance Estimation for Derivatives of Functional Data Using an Additive Penalty in P-splines
Steven Golovkine (Université Laval)

Yueyun Zhu

University of Galway

Andrew Simpkin

University of Galway

Norma Bargary

University of Limerick
11:35 - 11:50
Variational Inference for Variable Selection in Scalar-on-Function Regression
Ana Carolina da Cruz (University of Calgary)

Camila de Souza

Western University

Pedro H. T. O. Sousa

Federal University of Paraná, Brazil

Statistical Learning from Data with Unconventional Format

Room: MDCL 1009

10:20 - 10:50
Enhancing Inference for Small Cohorts via Transfer Learning and Weighted Integration of Multiple Datasets
Subharup Guha (Dartmouth College)

Yi Li

University of Michigan

Mengqi Xu

University of Waterloo
10:50 - 11:20
A Mixed Hawkes Process to Model Epileptic Seizures
Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga (Colorado School of Public Health)

Karen Kanaster

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Giovani Silva

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Peter Mueller

University of Texas at Austin
11:20 - 11:50
Estimating Time-Varying Treatment Effects in Recurrent Event Data via Event History Informed Matching
Candemir Cigsar (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Stochastic Methods in Neuroscience

Room: MDCL 3022

10:20 - 10:50
Biologically Justifiable Models for Neuronal Clustering and Classification
Reza Ramezan (University of Waterloo)
10:50 - 11:20
Bootstrap Estimation of System Integrated Information
Izaak Gagnon (Brock University)
11:20 - 11:50
Bayesian Inference for Spatially Varying Long-Memory Processes in fMRI
Michelle F. Miranda (University of Victoria)

Student Research Poster Presentation Award Competition

Room: MDCL First Floor Hallways

10:20 - 11:50
A Comparative Study of Bayesian Factor Models under Positive Lower Triangular and Unordered Generalized Lower Triangular Identification Constraints
Simranjeet Bilkhu (McMaster University)

Pratheepa Jeganathan

McMaster University
10:20 - 11:50
A Meta-Analytic Model for Diagnostic Tests with Repeated Measurements
Olana Angesa Dabi (University of Waterloo / Faculty of Health)

Zelalem Firisa Negeri

University of Waterloo
10:20 - 11:50
A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Extreme Fire Weather in British Columbia: Identifying a Structural Change Point from 1981 to 2023
Zoya Zaman (University of Guelph)
10:20 - 11:50
Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies for Wheat Data
Linxi Li (University of Saskatchewan)
10:20 - 11:50
Bias of Treatment Effect Estimation in Hybrid Goldilocks Adaptive Design: A Simulation Study
Yang Wang (McMaster University)

Gregory Pond

Department of Oncology, McMaster University

Jinhui Ma

Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University

Sameer Parpia

Department of Oncology AND Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University
10:20 - 11:50
Copula regression improves the ability to detect modulation of promoter-enhancer dependence
Bowei Xiao (McGill University)
10:20 - 11:50
Estimation of Rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curve for Multi-Day Durations
Gabrielle Rainville (Polytechnique Montreal)

Jalbert Jonathan

Polytechnique Montréal

Roy Philippe

Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec
10:20 - 11:50
Familial Mutation-Aware Modeling of A-β Propagation in Alzheimer’s Disease
Mohammad Alamgir Chowdhury (University of Manitoba)
10:20 - 11:50
Inheritance Between Feedforward and Convolutional Networks via Model Projection
Nicolas Ewen (York University)

Jairo Diaz-Rodriguez

York University

Kelly Ramsay

York University
10:20 - 11:50
Mixture Model Averaging for Clustering Skewed Data
Yasmin Yaacoub (McMaster University)

Paul D. McNicholas

McMaster University
10:20 - 11:50
Nonlinear Covariate Integration in Hidden Markov Models Using Evidential Deep Learning
Duncan Cameron-Steinke (University of British Columbia)
10:20 - 11:50
Optimizing Monthly Patient Education Allocation Using Q-Learning
Yunxin Chen (University of Toronto)

Nicholas Mitsakakis

CHEO Research Institute
10:20 - 11:50
Predicting Type I Errors Using Objective Approximate Bayes Factors
Evan Strasdin (University of Victoria)

Dr. Farouk Nathoo

University of Victoria

Puneet Velidi

University of Victoria

Zhengxiao Wei

University of Victoria
10:20 - 11:50
Scalable Gaussian Process Inference via Deep Generative Models: A New Framework for High-Cadence Time Series
Rodrigo Barradas Herrera (University of Toronto)

Vianey Leos Barajas

University of Toronto

Gwendolyn Eadie

University of Toronto

Elizaveta Semenova

Imperial College London
10:20 - 11:50
Scalable Spatio-temporal Disaggregation with Changing Areal Boundaries
Noah Ripstein (University of Toronto)

Jamie Stafford

University of Toronto

Patrick Brown

University of Toronto
10:20 - 11:50
Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding in Causal Inference Studies with Survival Outcomes
Ting Lin (University of Toronto)

Jay Xu

Department of Statistics Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kuan Liu

Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10:20 - 11:50
Simulation Based Evaluation of Longitudinal Models for Rare Disease Trials under Baseline Imbalance and Missingness
Mithun Manivannan (Carleton University)

Utkarsh Dang

Carleton University
10:20 - 11:50
Spatial Prediction of PM2.5 in Ontario Using Supervised and Semi-Supervised Machine Learning
Shaojie Dong (University of Toronto)
10:20 - 11:50
Towards a Statistical Estimation of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP)
Anne Martin (Polytechnique Montreal)

Élyse Fournier

Hydro-Québec

Jonathan Jalbert

Polytechnique Montréal

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Biostatistics III

Room: MDCL 1010

10:20 - 10:35
A Robust Multivariate Random-effects Finite Mixture Model for Detecting and Accommodating Outliers in Dose-response Meta-analyses
Marimuthu Sappani (McMaster University)

Joseph Beyene

McMaster University
10:35 - 10:50
Sparse Additive Mixture Cure Models for Right-Censored Survival Data
Yingxiang Li (Queen's University)

Yingwei Peng

Queen's University

Xuejing Zhao

Lanzhou University
10:50 - 11:05
Efficient Estimation and Closed-Form Uncertainty Quantification for Net Benefit of Algorithms that Predict Individualized Treatment Benefit
Sasha Sharma (University of British Columbia)

Mohsen Sadatsafavi

University of British Columbia

Paul Gustafson

University of British Columbia
11:05 - 11:20
Unsupervised Graded Response Models for Assessing Longitudinal Measurement Invariance in Patient-Reported Outcomes
Olayinka Imisioluwa Arimoro (University of Calgary)

Lisa Lix

University of Manitoba

Tolulope Sajobi

University of Calgary
11:20 - 11:35
Bayesian Hierarchical Bootstrap Framework for Causal Subgroup Estimation with Survival Outcomes
Mengyao Shi (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

Kuan Liu

University of Toronto
11:35 - 11:50
Developing Individualized Treatment Regimes using Causal Mediation
Misha Dolmatov (McGill University)

Erica Moodie

McGill University

David Stephens

McGill University

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Statistics III

Room: MDCL 1016

10:20 - 10:35
Efficient Estimation of Distributional Partial Effects via Causal Velocity
Johnny Xi (The University of British Columbia)

Hugh Dance

University College London

Peter Orbanz

University College London

Benjamin Bloem-Reddy

University of British Columbia
10:35 - 10:50
Causal Discovery Across Datasets via Partial Canonical Correlation Analysis
Arian Hashemzadeh (University of Toronto)

Elena Tuzhilina

University of Toronto

Piotr Zwiernik

Universitat Pompeu Fabra
10:50 - 11:05
Conformal Ordinal Prediction under Noisy Labels for Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Grading
Jasper Zhongyuan Zhang (University of Toronto)

Xinyi Wang

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University

Ziqian Zhuang

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Divya Sharma

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Department of Biostatistics, University Health Network

Osvaldo Espin-Garcia

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University; Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto; Department of Biostatistics and Schroeder Arthritis Institute, University Health Network

Wei Xu

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Department of Biostatistics, University Health Network
11:05 - 11:20
A Wavelet-Based Framework for Mapping Long Memory in Resting-State fMRI: Age-Related Changes in the Hippocampus from the ADHD-200 Dataset
Yasaman Shahhosseini (University of Victoria)
11:20 - 11:35
Doubly Adaptive Pseudo-Marginal Algorithm
Sarra Abaoubida (University of Montreal)

Mylène Bédard

University of Montreal

Florian Maire

University of Montreal
11:35 - 11:50
Estimation of Dynamic Models for Unevenly Spaced Longitudinal Data
Delpechithra Acharige Rasadari Madushani (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Survey Methods Section Invited Presidential Address

Room: MDCL 1309

10:20 - 11:50
Inferential Issues in Model-Based Small Area Estimation: Some History and Recent Developments
J. N. K. Rao (Carleton University)

Teaching and Learning of Statistics in Life Sciences

Room: MDCL 2233

10:20 - 10:50
Statistics Education: The What and How for Health Science Professionals
Amy S Nowacki (Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Cleveland, OH)
10:50 - 11:20
Mind Your Language! Teaching Statistics in the Healthcare Sciences
Philip Martin Sedgwick (City St. George's, University of London)
11:20 - 11:50
Building Stronger Quantitative Foundations in Life Science Undergrads
Bethany J.G. White (University of Toronto)

Jastaranpreet Singh

University of Toronto

13:30 - 15:00

Advances in Brain Imaging and Brain Disease Modelling

Room: MDCL 1009

13:30 - 13:45
Multi-trajectory Sensitivity Analysis for Outcome Measurement Error due to Differential Item Functioning in Rare Genetic Diseases
Christopher Gravel (University of Ottawa)
13:45 - 14:00
Bayesian Latent Class Causal Analysis of Cognitive Decline in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
Yiming (Emmett) Peng (Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto / Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute)

Zihang Lu

University of Toronto

Kuan Liu

University of Toronto
14:00 - 14:15
Dynamic Prediction of Dementia Using Functional Joint Models and Bayesian Model Averaging with Multiple Longitudinal Imaging Data
Chen Chen (University of Toronto)

Kuan Liu

University of Toronto

Laurent Briollais

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
14:15 - 14:30
Multiscale Modelling with Data-Driven Brain Networks: Misfolded Proteins and Astrocytic Clearance in Alzheimer’s Disease
Hina Shaheen (University of Manitoba)

Mohammad Alamgir Chowdhury

University of Manitoba

Hina Shaheen

University of Manitoba
14:30 - 14:45
Geometry-Aware Harmonization for Brain Connectivity
Xiaoqi Xie (McGill University)

Advances in Incomplete and Inaccurate Data

Room: MDCL 1016

13:30 - 13:45
Combining Rules for Chi-Square Statistics from Multiply-Imputed Data
Ashok Chaurasia (University of Waterloo)

Mohsen Ebadi

University of Waterloo
13:45 - 14:00
Missing Data Methods for Discriminant Analysis for Incomplete Multivariate Longitudinal Data
Gabriel Oppong Afriyie (University of Calgary)

Alberto Nettel Aguirre

University of Wollongong Australia

Na Li

University of Calgary

Chel Hee Lee

University of Calgary

Tolulope Sajobi

University of Calgary
14:00 - 14:15
Quantile Regression Modelling of Error-Prone Longitudinal Data
Blesson Issac (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Asokan Mulayath Variyath

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Zhaozhi Fan

Memorial University of Newfoundland
14:15 - 14:30
Covariate Measurement Error in Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes: Where and How Should We Correct?
Mincen Liu (McGill University)

Erica E.M. Moodie

McGill University

Qihuang Zhang

McGill University
14:30 - 14:45
Parameter Estimation in Linear Regression Models with Censored and Mismeasured Covariates.
Goyumi Lavanya Kumarasiri (University of Manitoba)

Yuliya Martsynyuk

University of Manitoba.

Liqun Wang

University of Manitoba.

Advances in Small Area Estimation and Survey Data Integration

Room: MDCL 2233

13:30 - 14:00
Data Integration and Prediction-Powered Inference in Survey Sampling
Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo)
14:00 - 14:30
A Bayesian two-fold small area model for estimation of sub-area means when only area-level aggregate totals are known
J. Sunil Rao (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)

Chen Zhao

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
14:30 - 15:00
Nonparametric methods within area-level models
Caleb Leedy (University of Ottawa)

David Haziza

University of Ottawa

Mehdi Dagdoug

McGill University

Common Themes in Nonparametric Regression and Functional Data Analysis

Room: MDCL 3023

13:30 - 14:00
ML-Powered Scientific Research: Possibilities and Pitfalls
Jessica Gronsbell (University of Toronto)
14:00 - 14:30
Image Representation via Bivariate Spline Surface Smoothing
Cédric Beaulac (Université du Québec à Montréal)
14:30 - 15:00
Estimating Associations between Multiple Air Pollutants and Mortality in Ontario, Canada using Single-Index Distributed Lag Non-Linear Models
Tianyi Pan (University of Waterloo)

Contributed Poster Presentations

Room: MDCL First Floor Hallways

13:30 - 15:00
A Bayesian Joint Model for Physical Activity Scoring with Longitudinal Ordinal Outcomes
Yanning Wang (University of Toronto)
13:30 - 15:00
A Quasi-Experimental Interrupted Time Series Framework for Single-Subject Trials of Interventions with a One-Off Impact
Xiaotian Zhao (SickKids)

Danielle Baribeau

Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto; Department of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children

Arlene Jiang

Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children

Anna Heath

Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children; Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Department of Statistical Science, University College London
13:30 - 15:00
Addressing Endogeneity in Trial Within Cohort (TwiC) Designs: Comparing Two-stage Residual Inclusion (2SRI) Regression and Propensity Score Weighting (PSW) Methods
Xinze Yu (The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)

Alina Lee

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Clement Ma

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Wei Wang

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
13:30 - 15:00
Bayesian Adaptive Trial Design for AFFIRM
Felix Ho (University of Toronto)

Bijan Teja

Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto

Anna Heath

Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, The Hospital for Sick Children
13:30 - 15:00
Engaging Methods: Biostatistics ReseArch with Caregivers, and patiEnts (EMBRACE) Project
Yanara Marks (The Hospital for Sick Children)

Anna Heath

The Hospital for Sick Children
13:30 - 15:00
Fast variational Bayesian inference for correlated survival data: an application to invasive mechanical ventilation duration analysis
Camila P. E. de Souza (University of Western Ontario)

Chengqian Xian

University of Western Ontario

Wenqing He

University of Western Ontario

Felipe F. Rodrigues

King's University College

Renfang Tian

King's University College
13:30 - 15:00
Multi-State Models for Treatment Effects in Cardiovascular Trials: Beyond Time-to-First Composite Endpoints
Yueci Zhou (McMaster University)
13:30 - 15:00
Optimal Subsampling Methods for Mixed Data Types: A Progressive Proportional Sampling Framework
Ying Miao (University of Manitoba)

Saumen Mandal

University of Manitoba

Po Yang

University of Manitoba
13:30 - 15:00
Oracle Arrays for Space-Filling Designs
Annie Yao (Simon Fraser University)
13:30 - 15:00
Pitman Closeness of Maximum Likelihood Estimators Under Type-II Hybrid Censoring With Exponential Lifetimes
Anna Ly (McMaster University)

Katherine Davies

McMaster University
13:30 - 15:00
Strong Orthogonal Arrays of Strength 2+ with Better Two-Dimensional Projection Properties
Sashini Darshani Silva Fransisku Hettige (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby)
13:30 - 15:00
TSMA: Two-stage Sampling Aggregation to Construct Classification Models for Imbalanced Data
Lina Li (University of Saskatchewan)
13:30 - 15:00
Two-Point Padé Approximants for the error function and the cumulative normal distribution function
Samir Hamdi (University of Toronto at Mississauga)

Yanchen Wang

University of Toronto

Distinguished Educator Award Address

Room: MDCL 1305/1307

13:30 - 15:00
Towards a Searchable Library of Research-grounded Statistical Teaching Examples
James A. Hanley (McGill University)

New Frontiers in Clinical Trial Design and Analysis

Room: MDCL 1010

13:30 - 13:45
Optimizing Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Clinical Trials: A Standardized Prior Elicitation Framework
Abigail McGrory (University of Toronto)

Anna Heath

The Hospital for Sick Children

Glauco Plens

University Health Network
13:45 - 14:00
Bayesian Hierarchical Adjustable Random Partition (BHARP) Model for Factorial Adaptive Platform Trials
Xianglin Zhao (McGill University)

Shirin Golchi

McGill University
14:00 - 14:15
An Adaptive Enrichment Design for Precision Psychiatry Trials: A Two-Stage Randomized Basket Design with Latent Baskets
Clement Ma (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)

Yixiao Chen

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Kuan Liu

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Sanjeev Kumar

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
14:15 - 14:30
An Exact Method for Joint Superiority and Non-Inferiority Testing in Randomized Trials with Two Binary Co-Primary Endpoints
HYEJUNG JUNG (University of Toronto)

Aya A. Mitani

University of Toronto

M. Ishrat Husain

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto

Clement Ma

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto
14:30 - 14:45
Powering Clinical Trials: Pairwise Comparison
Rajibul Mian (McMaster University, Population Health Research Institute)

Kumar Balasubramanian

McMaster University, PHRI

Shrikant Bangdiwala

McMaster University, PHRI, HEI
14:45 - 15:00
Evaluating Analytical Strategies for Estimating Time Effects in Master Observational Trials (MOTs) including Trials-within-a-Cohort (TwiCs) - A Simulation Study
Moxuan Wang (University of Toronto)

Clement Ma

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Lisa Hawk

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Charles Keown-Stoneman

Unity Health Toronto

New Statistical Methods for Causal Survival Analysis Leveraging Experimental and Observational Data

Room: MDCL 1110

13:30 - 14:00
Robust Trial Augmentation for survival outcomes
Guanbo Wang (Dartmouth College)
14:00 - 14:30
Detecting Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Differential Variance Inference for Time-to-Event Outcomes
Philippe Boileau (McGill University)
14:30 - 15:00
A Longitudinal Bayesian Framework for Estimating Causal Dose-Response Relationships
Kuan Liu (University of Toronto)

Yu Luo

King’s College London

Ramandeep Singh

Technical University of Munich

Daniel Graham

Imperial College London

Recent Advances in Cure Rate Modelling

Room: MDCL 1008

13:30 - 14:00
A Novel Cure Model for Competing Risks
Suvra Pal (University of Texas at Arlington)
14:00 - 14:30
A new class of time-dependent logistic models for cure rate modelling
Maria Carmen Pardo (Complutense University of Madrid)

M. Mar Fenoy

Complutense University of Madrid

N. Balakrishnan

McMaster University
14:30 - 15:00
A Gradient Boosting Decision Tree Based Estimation Method for the Mixture Cure Model
Yingwei (Paul) Peng (Queen's University)

Recent Advances on the Challenges of Statistical Learning

Room: MDCL 1309

13:30 - 14:00
PCA++: How Uniformity Induces Robustness to Background Noise in Contrastive Learning
Yi Yang (McGill University)
14:00 - 14:30
Tabular Data Generation: A Bayesian Nonparametric Mechanism for Differentially Private Generative Modeling
Forough Fazeliasl (University of Alberta)

Bei Jiang

University of Alberta

Linglong Kong

University of Alberta
14:30 - 15:00
An Uncertainty-Aware Agentic AI Framework for Rare Disease Diagnosis
Pingzhao Hu (Western University)

Ganlin Feng

Western University

Yuxi Long

Western University

Recent Developments in Property and Casualty Insurance Modeling

Room: MDCL 3024

13:30 - 14:00
A Hybrid Neural-Copula Model for Intercompany Multivariate Loss Reserving and Risk Capital Analysis
Pratheepa Jeganathan (McMaster University)

Anas Abdallah

McMaster University

Pengfei Cai

McMaster University
14:00 - 14:30
From Trees to GLMs in Non-Life Insurance
Christopher Blier-Wong (University of Toronto)
14:30 - 15:00
Event-structured Dependence in Frequency-severity Modelling of Storm Losses
Lisa Gao (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)

Tianxing Yan

University of Waterloo

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Business and Industrial Statistics

Room: MDCL 2230

13:30 - 13:45
Modelling Central Bank Speech Topics to Identify International Influence
Andrea Payne (Carleton University)

David A. Campbell

Carleton University

James Chapman

Bank of Canada

Jon Frost

Bank for International Settlements

Carola Müller

Banco de España
14:00 - 14:15
Clustering Neurons Based on Point Process Intensity Functions
Dario Greco (University of Waterloo)

Reza Ramezan

University of Waterloo
14:15 - 14:30
Shared Frailty Illness-Death Models for Interval-Censored Semi-Competing Risks
YAQIAN SUN (University of Calgary)

Xuewen Lu

University of Calgary

Fatemeh Mahmoudi

Mount Royal University
14:30 - 14:45
Non-Probability Sampling for Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Jay Sivathayalan (University of Waterloo)

Ryan Browne

University of Waterloo

Michael Wallace

University of Waterloo
14:45 - 15:00
Depth-based detection of heterogeneous outliers in functional data
Luis Miguel Roldan Alzate (University of Guelph)

Elif Acar

University of Guelph

Zeny Feng

University of Guelph

Student Research Presentation Award Competition in Probability

Room: MDCL 3022

13:30 - 13:45
Linkage Disequilibrium - Aware Optimal Transport for Trans-Ethnic Polygenic Scores
Yu Shi (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)
13:45 - 14:00
On Estimator of Mean Matrix in high-dimensional data
Arash Aghaei Foroushani (Univerisy of Windsor)

Sévérien Nkurunziza

University of Windsor
14:00 - 14:15
High-Dimensional Limit Theorems for Preconditioned Stochastic Gradient Descent
Varnan Sarangian (University of Waterloo)

Aukosh Jagannath

University of Waterloo
14:15 - 14:30
Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Mini-Batching and Infinite Variance
Bartosz Glowacki (University of Ottawa and Université Paris Nanterre)
14:30 - 14:45
On the Dependence Structure of the Largest k Order Statistics
Helena Heinonen (McGill University)

Johanna G. Nešlehová

McGill University
14:45 - 15:00
Semiparametric Estimation of Two-Component Location-Scale Mixture Models
Sankhapali Polgolla (University of Calgary)

15:30 - 17:00

Recent Advances in the Probabilistic Foundations of Statistics and Machine Learning

Room: MDCL 3022

16:30 - 17:00
Bayesian Hankel-Embedded Dynamic Factor Model
Mengying Lei (McGill University)
15:30 - 16:00
From Directed Polymers to Spatial Corrected KPZ Equation in any Dimensions
Yaozhong Hu (University of Alberta)
16:00 - 16:30
Central Limit Theorems Associated with the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process
Shui Feng (McMaster University)

Advanced Models and Methods for Complex Data

Room: MDCL 2230

15:30 - 15:45
A Generatively Compatible Semiparametric Framework for Multivariate GLLVMs
Zinsou Max Debaly (UQAM)

Aurélie Labbe

HEC

Karim Oualkacha

UQAM
15:45 - 16:00
Nonparametric Cluster Weighted Models
John R.J. Thompson (The University of British Columbia)

Ling Xue

The University of Britsh Columbia (Okanagan)
16:00 - 16:15
Accelerated Majorization-Minimization Algorithms for Estimating Common Eigenvector Matrices in Gaussian Mixture Models
Bryn Crandles (University of Waterloo)

Ryan Browne

University of Waterloo

Reza Ramezan

University of Waterloo
16:15 - 16:30
Deep Dirichlet–Multinomial Models for High-Dimensional Multivariate Count Data
Fekadu Bayisa (University of Guelph)

Ayesha Ali

University of Guelph

Zeny Feng

University of Guelph

Challenges in Microbiome and Multi-Omics Data

Room: MDCL 1116

15:30 - 15:45
Scalable Stochastic Gradient Variational Inference Framework for Microbiome Differential Abundance Analysis
Saurabh Panchasara (York University)

Kevin McGregor

University of Manitoba

Hanna Jankowski

York University
15:45 - 16:00
Accounting for Network Noise in Graph-Guided Bayesian Modeling of High-Dimensional Omics Data
Wenrui Li (University of Connecticut)

Changgee Chang

Indiana University

Suprateek Kundu

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Qi Long

University of Pennsylvania
16:00 - 16:15
A Functional Regression Framework for Genetic Colocalization analysis across Omics and Disease-related Outcomes
Osvaldo Espin-Garcia (University of Western Ontario)

Myriam Brossard

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute; University of Toronto

Kathleen Zang

University of Toronto

Thomas G. Wilson

Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences

S. Amanda Ali

Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University Health Sciences; Wayne State University
16:15 - 16:30
Disentangling Perturbation Effects in Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Lin Zhang (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby)

Theodore Lun

Simon Fraser University
16:30 - 16:45
Heuristic Algorithms for Discrete Optimization with Cardinality and Cost Constraints in Two-Phase Study Design
Jiaqi Yuan (Western University)

Challenges in Precision Medicine, including Precision Medicine for Rare Diseases

Room: MDCL 1115

15:30 - 15:45
Small Sample Challenges for Comparative Efficacy Research in Rare Diseases: Towards Best Practices
Emma K Mackay (IQVIA)

Devon Boyne

IQVIA
15:45 - 16:00
Comparing Decision-Theoretic Methods for Sample Size Design in Rare Disease Trials
Yuning Wang (University of Toronto)

Anna Heath

The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
16:00 - 16:15
How do Rare Disease Trials Use Bayesian Methods in Practice?
Arlene Jiang (The Hospital for Sick Children)

Yanara Marks

The Hospital for Sick Children

Anna Heath

The Hospital for Sick Children; University of Toronto; University College London
16:15 - 16:30
Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Multi-Arm Treatments in a Regression-Based Framework
Ken Mawer (University of Waterloo)

Michael Wallace

University of Waterloo

Paul Marriott

University of Waterloo
16:30 - 16:45
Nonparametric Probability Index Methods for Identifying Treatment-Sensitive Subgroups with Multiple Biomarkers and Right-Censored Survival Data
Zehui Wang (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)
16:45 - 17:00
Robust inference for predictive heterogeneity between subpopulations
Mengqi Xu (University of Waterloo)

Subha Maity

University of Waterloo

Joel Dubin

University of Waterloo

DSMB Reflections: Key Takeaways from Experience

Room: MDCL 1009

15:30 - 16:00
Implementing Sample Size Re-estimation (SSRE) in Clinical Trials: Experiences and Insights from PHRI
Shun Fu Lee (Population Health Research Institute)
16:00 - 16:30
The Challenges of Stopping Trials for Benefit: The Lessons Learnt from the Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care (iKMC) Trial
Lehana Thabane (McMaster University)
16:30 - 17:00
Oversight in Motion: The Evolving Roles of Data and Safety Monitoring Boards in Adaptive Platform Trials
Tolu Sajobi (University of Calgary)

Equity, Inclusion and Diversity in Biostatistical Research: a Panel Discussion

Room: MDCL 1008

15:30 - 17:00
Equity, Inclusion and Diversity in Biostatistical research: a Panel Discussion
Rhonda J Rosychuk (University of Alberta)

Mireille Schnitzer

Unversité de Montréal

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

McMaster University

From Insight to Impact: Confidence and Communication in Statistics

Room: MDCL 1016

15:30 - 17:00
From Insight to Impact: Confidence and Communication in Statistics
Kathryn Morrison (Precision Analytics)

Alexandra Schmidt

McGill University

Shirin Golchi

McGill University

Lara Maleyeff

McGill University

New Investigator Presentation Award Competition and New Frontiers in Statistical Education

Room: MDCL 3023

15:30 - 15:45
Auto-graded formative assessments for student confidence
Gracia Yunruo Dong (University of Toronto)
15:45 - 16:00
Enhancing Statistics Education with ChatGPT in Undergraduate Courses
Omidali Aghababaei Jazi (University of Toronto at Mississauga)
16:00 - 16:15
Artificial Intelligence in Statistical Education: Applications and Innovations
Selvakkadunko Selvaratnam (University of Toronto Scarborough)
16:15 - 16:30
When Coursework and Exams Disagree: Navigating Assessment in the Age of AI
Thuntida Ngamkham (University of Calgary)

Placida Dassanayake

University of Calgary
16:30 - 16:45
Integrating Aplus Language Assessment into Introductory Statistics: Insights for Early Support
Sohee Kang (University of Toronto Scarborough)

Eunice Jang

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, U of T
16:45 - 17:00
Evaluating Iterative Refinement of a Graduate Biostatistics Course Using GAISE and PPDAC Frameworks: A Case Study
Tony Panzarella (University of Toronto)

Lisa Eunyoung Lee

University of Toronto

Sobiga Vyravanathan

University of Toronto

Nicole Harnett

University of Toronto

Panel on the Historical Development of Statistical Sciences in Canada

Room: MDCL 1110

15:30 - 17:00
The Rise of Statistical Sciences in Canada: Historical Perspectives
Christian Genest (McGill University)

David R. Bellhouse

University of Western Ontario

Mary E. Thompson

University of Waterloo

Perspectives on Statistical Conflicts, Inspired by a Chess Scandal

Room: MDCL 1309

15:30 - 17:00
Perspectives on Statistical Conflicts, Inspired by a Chess Scandal
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal (University of Toronto)

Joanna Mills Flemming

Dalhousie University

Greg Rice

University of Waterloo

Jean-François Plante

HEC Montréal

Spotlight on CANSSI postdocs

Room: MDCL 1010

15:30 - 16:00
Copula-based models for bivariate survival data with a cure fraction
Chong Gan (University of Guelph)

Yingwei (Paul) Peng

Queen's University

Cindy Feng

Dalhousie University
16:00 - 16:30
Nonparametric Change-Point Detection for Multiple Data Streams
Jacob Victor Spertus (Université de Montréal)
16:30 - 17:00
Causal inference for all: Marginal causal effects for outcomes truncated by death
Ruixuan Zhao (University of Toronto Scarborough)

Linbo Wang

University of Toronto

Mats Stensrud

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Stochastic Methods in Finance and Insurance

Room: MDCL 3024

15:30 - 15:45
A Control Approach to Dynamic Ultimate Forward Rates: Balancing Stability and Consistency
Xipeng Huang (University of Waterloo)

Chengguo Weng

University of Waterloo
15:45 - 16:00
Assessing Bayesian Sampler Stability in Fat-Tailed Financial Volatility Models
Harshani De Silva (University of Manitoba)

Saman Muthukumarana

University of Manitoba

Narendra Malalgoda

University of Manitoba
16:00 - 16:15
Optimal time to Sell a Stock in the Presence of Default and Volatility Risks
Dante Mata Lopez (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM))
16:15 - 16:30
Fine-Tuning the 1/N Portfolio Based on Market Conditions
Yuqi Jing (University of Waterloo)

Zhenzhen Huang

The Ohio State University

David Saunders

University of Waterloo

Chengguo Weng

University of Waterloo
16:30 - 16:45
The Last Passage Time Before Ruin: Theory and Applications in Liquidation Risk Management
Shu Li (Western University)

Zijia Wang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jingyi Cao

York University
16:45 - 17:00
Barycentre Discrimination-Insensitive Pricing
Kathleen E. Miao (University of Toronto)

Silvana Pesenti

University of Toronto

Wednesday, 3 June, 2026

08:30 - 09:50

CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics Invited Address

Room: MDCL 1305/1307

08:30 - 09:50
Multivariate Extremes: a Personal Tour through Key Ideas, Challenges and Some Recent Advances
Stanislav Volgushev (University of Toronto)

10:20 - 11:50

Advances in Longitudinal Data Analysis

Room: MDCL 1009

10:20 - 10:35
Variable selection using adaptive lasso in modeling within-subject variability for longitudinal data with irregular and informative observation
Fatema Tuj Johara (University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health)

Eleanor Pullenayegum

University of Toronto
10:35 - 10:50
Inverse-Intensity Weighted Generalized Estimating Equations with Intensities Estimated via the Highly Adaptive Lasso
George Stefan (University of Toronto / The Hospital for Sick Children)
10:50 - 11:05
Deep Learning Imputation for Multivariate Longitudinal Data: A Systematic Review of Model Variants, Evaluation Practices, and Translation Gaps
Mengxiao Wang (McMaster University)
11:05 - 11:20
Latent Class Analysis via Hierarchical Likelihood for Continuous Longitudinal Data
Zhiwen Tan (Queen's University)
11:20 - 11:35
Longitudinal Data and Competing Risks: An Efficient Joint Modeling Framework
Shakhawat Hossain (University of Winnipeg)

Guanhong Xiao

University of Manitoba

Saumen Mandal

University of Manitoba

First Passage Time and Applications

Room: MDCL 3022

10:20 - 10:50
Failure Times and Threshold Regression Models
Jerald F. Lawless (University of Waterloo)
10:50 - 11:20
First-Passage-Time Distributions of Scan Statistics with Applications to CNV Detection
Tung-Lung Wu (Mississippi State University)
11:20 - 11:50
First Passage Time Densities for Jump-Diffusions relative to Discontinuous Boundaries
Liqun Wang (University of Manitoba)

Jinghai Shao

Tianjin University

Zhiyong Jin

University of Manitoba

Klaus Poetzelberger

Vienna University of Economics and Business

From Algorithms to Accountability: Embedding Ethics in Statistics and Data Science Courses

Room: MDCL 1115

10:20 - 10:50
Designing a New Undergraduate Ethics Course for Data Science
Danika M. Lipman (University of Calgary)
10:50 - 11:20
Integrating Ethics into an Undergraduate Program in Statistics and Data Science
Anne-Sophie Charest (Université Laval)
11:20 - 11:50
Navigating Difficult Conversations: Ethical Challenges in the Generation of Statistical Knowledge
Alia Sajjad (McGill University)

Innovations in Pension Design and Life Insurance

Room: MDCL 3024

10:20 - 10:50
Basis Risk in Variable Annuities
Thorsten Moenig (Temple University)
10:50 - 11:20
Limited Attention in Variable Annuities
Yumin Wang (University of Manitoba)
11:20 - 11:50
Individual Survivor Fund Account: The Impact of Bequest Motives on Tontine Participation
TAK WA NG (Université Laval)

Thai Nguyen

Laval University

Innovative Methods in Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials

Room: MDCL 1110

10:20 - 10:50
Ranking Methods in Multi-Arm Clinical Trials
Anna Heath (The Hospital for Sick Children)
10:50 - 11:20
Minimal Sufficient Balance Randomization and Site-specific Group Size Imbalance in Multicenter Acute Stroke Trials
Timofei Biziaev (University of Calgary)

Michael D. Hill

University of Calgary

Hannah Johns

University of Melbourne

Michael Tymianski

NoNo Inc

Corey Adams

NoNo Inc

Leonid Churilov

University of Melbourne

Bijoy K. Menon

University of Calgary

Tolulope Sajobi

University of Calgary
11:20 - 11:50
Bayesian Design of Experiments in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters
Shirin Golchi (McGill University)

Luke Hagar

University of Queensland

New Frontiers in Business and Industrial Statistics: Outlier Detection and p-Values

Room: MDCL 2230

10:20 - 10:35
Model Checking in Practice When Teaching Frequentist Statistics
Michael Guerzhoy (University of Toronto)
10:35 - 10:50
Can Statisticians Provide Good Advice about the Best Use of P-values?
Jeffrey D. Picka (University of New Brunswick)
10:50 - 11:05
Concerning Boxplots: Modifications for Skewed and Left-Censored Data
Nelson Arthur Zabel (WSP Canada Inc.)
11:05 - 11:20
A Multivariate Pseudo-Voigt Mixture Model for Outlier Detection
Babak Fathollahi Dehkordi (University of British Columbia Okanagan)
11:20 - 11:35
Selective Inference after Outlier Detection
Kun Wang (University of Waterloo)

New Frontiers in Causal Inference

Room: MDCL 1008

10:20 - 10:35
Bayesian Causal Inference in Semi-Parametric Models
Magid Sabbagh (McGill University)

David Stephens

McGill University
10:35 - 10:50
Penalized Bias-Reduced Doubly Robust Estimation of Average Treatment Effects in High-Dimensional Settings
Madison Cranstone (University of Waterloo)
10:50 - 11:05
Instrumental Variable Estimation with Time-Varying Exposure using Structural Nested Mean Models
Sijie Chen (University of Waterloo)
11:05 - 11:20
Causal Mediation Analysis in Interrupted Time Series with Stabilized Inverse Probability Weighting: Addressing Time-Varying Confounding in the Baron-Kenny Framework
Shalini Kaushalya Jayanetti Arachchi (University of Manitoba)
11:20 - 11:35
Efficiency Gain of Covariate-Adjusted Differential Variance Estimators in Two-Arm Randomized Controlled Trials
Hani Zaki (Université de Montréal)

Tania Janaudis-Fereirra

Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Philippe A. Boileau

McGill University, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Mireille Schnitzer

Université de Montréal
11:35 - 11:50
Estimation of the Controlled Direct Effect in Recurrent Event Processes
Shenita Pramij (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Candemir Cigsar

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Yildiz Yilmaz

Memorial University of Newfoundland

New Frontiers in Machine Learning

Room: MDCL 1010

10:20 - 10:35
A Parameterized PINN Solution to the Poisson-Nernst-Planck Model
Zheng Jia (University of Waterloo)

Martin Lysy

University of Waterloo
10:35 - 10:50
Marginal and Conditional Importance Measures from Machine Learning Models and Their Relationship with Conditional Average Treatment Effect
Mohammad Kaviul Anam Khan (The Hospital for Sick Children)
10:50 - 11:05
Mixtures of Experts for Competing Definitions of the Data Generating Process
Devan G. Becker (Wilfrid Laurier University)
11:05 - 11:20
HadamRNN: binary and sparse ternary orthogonal RNNS
Armand Foucault (HEC Montréal)
11:20 - 11:35
Post-Shrinkage Strategies in High-Dimensional Graph Neural Networks
Elfreda Narkuwor Nartey (Brock University)

Ejaz Syed Ahmed

Brock University
11:35 - 11:50
Towards an Empirical Sample Size Calculator for Training Ensemble Machine Learning Models on Health Data
Nicholas Mitsakakis (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute)

Dan Liu

CHEO Research Institute

Khaled El Emam

CHEO Research Institute

New Frontiers in Regression Modelling

Room: MDCL 2232

10:20 - 10:35
Response-Specific Multivariate Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
DONGHUI SON (Simon Fraser University)

Liangliang Wang

Simon Fraser University
10:35 - 10:50
Bias-Adjusted Random Forest for Better Quantile Estimates and Prediction Intervals
Thomas M. Loughin (Simon Fraser University)

Matthew Berkowitz

Simon Fraser University

Rachel Altman

Simon Fraser University
10:50 - 11:05
Flexible Statistical Approaches for Modeling Nonlinear Relationships in Diabetes Prediction using Splines, Bayesian Kernel Regression and Bayesian Regression Trees
Thimani Dananjana Ranathungage (University of Manitoba)

Harsha Blumer

Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba

Saman Muthukumarana

Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba
11:05 - 11:20
Flexible Tree Ensembles: Data Adaptive Splitting Rules
Heshani Achinthika Tirimadura Mendis (University of Manitoba)

Kevin McGregor

University of Manitoba

Elif Fidan Acar

University of Guelph
11:20 - 11:35
Efficient and Robust Variable Selection in Large-Scale Data via \( L^k \)-Quantile Regression with Distributed Computation and Inference
Abdellah Atanane (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Karim Oualkacha

Université du Québec à Montréal

Abdallah Mkhadri

Cadi Ayyad University
11:35 - 11:50
On Nested Cross-Validation for Functional and Ridge Regression
Shuyang Cao (University of Waterloo)

Alex Stringer

University of Waterloo

New Frontiers in Statistical Ecology: Animal Movement and Air Pollution Monitoring

Room: MDCL 1016

10:20 - 10:35
A Conditionally Markovian Reformulation of Memory-Mediated Animal Movement Using Cognitive Maps
Shibai Zhang (University of Victoria)
10:35 - 10:50
Integrated population models for dependent capture-recapture and presence-absence data
Mehnaz Jahid (University of Victoria)
10:50 - 11:05
A dynamic anisotropic kernel averaged predictor model for PM2.5 using satellite-derived AOD
Yovna Junglee (University of Toronto)

Vianey Leos-Barajas

Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto

Meredith Franklin

Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
11:05 - 11:20
Do Complex Models Improve PM2.5 Forecasting in Southern Ontario?
Esther Etim (University of Waterloo)

Martin Lysy

University of Waterloo
11:20 - 11:35
Bayesian State-Space Models for Robust Air Quality Prediction.
Nayanthi Karunanayake (University of Manitoba)

Saman Muthukumarana

University of Manitoba

Pierre Robillard Invited Address

Room: MDCL 1305/1307

10:20 - 11:50
Tales from the Tails: Extreme Value Inference for Systemic Risk
Xiaoting Li (The University of British Columbia)

Statistical Analysis of Network Data

Room: MDCL 1116

10:20 - 10:50
Artificial Benchmark for Community Detection (ABCD)
Pawel Pralat (Toronto Metropolitan University)
10:50 - 11:20
Statistical Network Inference and Analysis to Characterize Co-Purchasing Patterns in Quebec from Large-Scale Grocery Transaction Data
Jamie McCormick (McGill University)

Eric D. Kolaczyk

McGill University

Hiroshi Mamiya

McGill University
11:20 - 11:50
Mesoscale Changepoint Detection for Dynamic Networks
Peter W. MacDonald (University of Waterloo)

Shonak Duggal

University of Waterloo

Statistical Learning Methods for Survival and Biomedical Data Analysis

Room: MDCL 1309

10:20 - 10:50
Accelerated failure time models with error-prone response and nonlinear covariates
Li-Pang Chen (National Chengchi University)
10:50 - 11:20
Nonparametric Distribution Estimation for Survival Data Using Double Generators
Liqun Diao (University of Waterloo)

Ruihan Lin

University of Waterloo

Yingli Qin

University of Waterloo
11:20 - 11:50
Transfer Learning for Error-Contaminated Poisson Regression Models
Jou-Chin Wu (National Chengchi University)

13:30 - 15:00

Advances in Meta-Analysis and Federated Learning

Room: MDCL 1016

13:30 - 15:00
13:30 - 13:45
A novel approach for diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis with study-variant thresholds
Zelalem Firisa Negeri (University of Waterloo)
13:45 - 14:00
Methods for Assessing Distributional Assumptions in Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Tests
Diribsa Tsegaye Bedada (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo)

Zelalem Firisa Negeri

University of Waterloo
14:00 - 14:15
Identifying Conditions Favouring Multiplicative Heterogeneity Models in Network Meta-Analysis
Xinlei Xu (University of Waterloo)

Caitlin H. Daly

University of Waterloo

Audrey Béliveau

University of Waterloo
14:15 - 14:30
Uncovering All Highly Credible Binary Treatment Hierarchy Questions in Network Meta-Analysis
Audrey Béliveau (University of Waterloo)

Caitlin Daly

University of Waterloo

Chloe Tan

University of Waterloo
14:30 - 14:45
Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Effect Modification via Coefficient Functions
Marjan Rajabi (TMU)

Advances in Dependence Modelling and Universal Inference

Room: MDCL 3022

13:30 - 13:45
A framework for representing stochastic dependencies in the presence of ties
Serge B. Provost (The University of Western Ontario)
13:45 - 14:00
Tail Dependence in Copula-based Multivariate Time Series
Chun Fang Cheng (University of British Columbia)

Harry Joe

University of British Columbia
14:00 - 14:15
Conditional Independence Tests Between Arbitrary Time Series
Bruno N. Rémillard (HEC Montréal)

Bouchra Nasri

Université de Montréal

Kilani Ghoudi

United Arab Emirates University
14:15 - 14:30
Nonparametric Test of Independence Based on C-power Functions
Mohamed Belalia (University of Windsor)

Guanjie Lyu

University of Windsor
14:30 - 14:45
Some Supplements to Jiang's Asymptotic Distribution of the Largest Off-Diagonal Entry of a Sample Correlation Matrix
Deli Li (Lakehead University)
14:45 - 15:00
Accelerating Sequential Hypothesis Tests with Empirical Decision Thresholds
Kyu Min Shim (University of Waterloo)

Advances in Sport Statistics

Room: MDCL 2230

13:30 - 14:00
A Bayesian Two-stage Framework for Assessing Individual Rebounding Ability in the NBA
Alexandre Leblanc (University of Manitoba)

Nicholas Kiriazis

McGill University

Christian Genest

McGill University
14:00 - 14:30
Acceleration as a Proxy for Aging in Soccer
Tim B. Swartz (Simon Fraser University)
14:30 - 15:00
Understanding Football Receiver Routes Through Functional Data Clustering
Tianyu Guan (York University)

Yifan Wu

Teamworks

Advances in Statistical Learning

Room: MDCL 1008

13:30 - 13:45
Jackknife Inference with Two-Way Clustering
James G. MacKinnon (Queen's University)
13:45 - 14:00
Multi-Class Classification with Imbalanced Data
Wanhua Su (MacEwan University)
14:00 - 14:15
Automated Statistical Calibration Assessment for Multiclass Classifiers via Two-Stage Clustering
Hongjun Sim (Western University)

Hyukjun Gweon

University of Western Ontario
14:15 - 14:30
A Pragmatic Method for Comparing Clusterings with Overlaps and Outliers
Ryan DeWolfe (Toronto Metropolitan University)
14:30 - 14:45
Globally aligned Principal Component Analysis for multi-group data
Federico Severino (Université Laval)

Hedayat Fathi

Université Laval

Marzia A. Cremona

Université Laval

Building an Inclusive Future in Statistics: EDI Perspectives from Education, Research, and Consulting

Room: MDCL 1010

13:30 - 14:00
Instructor Self-Assessment for Equity and Belonging
Xu (Sunny) Wang (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Ann Curry-Stevens

Wilfrid Laurier University

Sobia Iqbal

Wilfrid Laurier University
14:00 - 14:30
Reframing Clinical Research Through a Statistical EDI Lens
Lawrence Mbuagbaw (McMaster University)
14:30 - 15:00
Facilitating Accessibility in Academic Statistical Consulting Centers
Marianne Huebner (Michigan State University)

Michael Wallace

University of Waterloo

Causal Inference and Privacy in Modern Statistical Methods

Room: MDCL 1009

13:30 - 14:00
A Robust Framework for Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization under Population Heterogeneity
Dingke Tang (University of Ottawa)
14:00 - 14:30
Robust Inference for the Cox Proportional Hazards Model with Interval-Censored Data
Yangjianchen Xu (University of Waterloo)

Donglin Zeng

University of Michigan

Danyu Lin

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CJS Award Address

Room: MDCL 1305/1307

13:30 - 15:00
Fast and Scalable Inference for Spatial Extreme Value Models
Martin Lysy (University of Waterloo)

Meixi Chen

University of Waterloo

Reza Ramezan

University of Waterloo

Recent Advances by New Investigators Across Canada

Room: MDCL 2232

13:30 - 14:00
Double Machine Learning for the Treatment of Nonresponse in Survey Sampling
Mehdi Dagdoug (McGill University)

Haziza David

University of Ottawa
14:00 - 14:30
Causal inference for recurrent events with time-varying exposure in the presence of a terminal event
Trang Bui (University of Saskatchewan)

Recent Advances in Shrinkage Estimators

Room: MDCL 3024

13:30 - 14:00
Novel Matrix Stein-Rules in High Dimensional Data
Sévérien Nkurunziza (University of Windsor)

Arash Foroushani

University of Windsor
14:00 - 14:30
Shrinkage estimation methods in tensor regression models
Mai Ghannam (University of Toronto Mississauga)

Sévérien Nkurunziza

University of Windsor
14:30 - 15:00
Shrinkage Methods in Mixture Cure Gamma Frailty Model
Moein Yoosefi (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Moein Yoosefi

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Armin Hatefi

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Recent Developments in Statistical Learning Methods for Complex Longitudinal Data in Health Research

Room: MDCL 1110

13:30 - 14:00
Progression-Centred Pattern-Mixture Models for Longitudinal HRQoL Under Informative Dropout
Wensha Zhang (Queen's University)

Wei Tu

Queen's University/Canadian Cancer Trials Group
14:00 - 14:30
Assessing the Reliability of Longitudinal Electronic Dental Records Through Agreement of Periodontal Markers
Aya A. Mitani (University of Toronto)

Hanlong Chen

University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Yuning Wang

University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Christopher McCulloch

University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry
14:30 - 15:00
Uncovering Hormone Trajectory Subtypes in the Menopausal Transition via Envelope–Regularized Multivariate Longitudinal Clustering
Zihang Lu (University of Toronto)

Bei Jiang

University of Alberta

Statistics Meets Science: Methodology Across the Genome

Room: MDCL 1309

13:30 - 14:00
Signal Mapping for Region-Level GWAS Under Complex Linkage Disequilibrium (LD)
Shelley B. Bull (University of Toronto/Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute)

Myriam Brossard

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Kexin Luo

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Andrew Paterson

Sick Kids Research Institute and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Yun Joo Yoo

Seoul National University, South Korea
14:00 - 14:30
Scalable Topic Modelling Decodes Spatial Tissue Architecture for Large-Scale Multiplexed Imaging Analysis
Xiyu Peng (Texas A&M University)
14:30 - 15:00
Automatic Relevance Determination Variational Autoencoder for Single-Cell DNA Methylation Analysis and Batch Correction
Kaiqiong Zhao (York University)

Jingpu Ding

The University of Hong Kong

15:30 - 17:00

Advances in Methods Applicable to EHRs and Health Care Systems

Room: MDCL 1009

15:30 - 15:45
Useful, Usable, and Used: Considerations for Developing an Implementation-ready Model
Juan Li (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)
15:45 - 16:00
Triggering Factors Associated with Multimorbidity in Canada: Evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Data
Md. Akhtarul Islam (University of Waterloo)

Zahid A. Butt

School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Md Erfanul Hoque

Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
16:00 - 16:15
Cost-Effectiveness of Timely Surgery and Timely Inpatient Rehabilitation for the Management of Hip Fracture
Zheng Jing (Jimmy) Hu (McMaster University)

Salhab el-Helou

McMaster University

Gerhard Fusch

McMaster University

Judith Versloot

Trillium Health Partners

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

McMaster University

Lehana Thabane

McMaster University

Walter Wodchis

University of Toronto
16:15 - 16:30
Prediction of Hospital Length of Stay with Similarity Based Modelling and Machine Learning Models
Keeley Isinghood (University of Waterloo)

Joel Dubin

University of Waterloo
16:30 - 16:45
Assessing the Effects of COVID-19 on Cardiovascular Healthcare Utilization Among Different Demographics in Saskatchewan
Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi (University of Saskatchewan)

Nazeem Muhajarine

University of Saskatchewan
16:45 - 17:00
Challenges and Opportunities in the Analysis of Cervical Screening Data
Laura Bumbulis (University of Waterloo)

Li C. Cheung

National Cancer Institute

Fangya Mao

National Cancer Institute

Richard J. Cook

University of Waterloo

Anthology of Case Studies

Room: MDCL 2232

15:30 - 15:45
Periodicities in earthquake occurrence around Long Valley Caldera, California: An original application of Multi-Frequential Periodogram Analysis with Bonferroni correction
Pierre R. L. Dutilleul (McGill University)

Heidi Xu

Fudan University

Emily Montgomery-Brown

US Geological Survey

Roland Bürgmann

University of California - Berkeley
15:45 - 16:00
Modeling Detection Delays in Lightning-Caused Wildfires
Jin Zhang (University of Guelph)

Khurram Nadeem

University of Guelph

Zeny Feng

University of Guelph
16:00 - 16:15
Considerations for Statistical Modelling of Wastewater-Based Viral Signal: An Interlaboratory Comparison
Johanna de Haan-Ward (University of Ottawa)

Nada Hegazy

University of Ottawa

Ken Peng

University of Ottawa

Elizabeth Renouf

University of Ottawa

X. Joan Hu

Simon Fraser University

Charmaine Dean

University of Waterloo

Robert Delatolla

University of Ottawa
16:15 - 16:30
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, Inferring How Far Away You Are.
Aaron Springford (aaronspringford.com)

Gwendolyn Eadie

University of Toronto

Jianing Su

University of Toronto

Aarya Patil

Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
16:30 - 16:45
Analysis of Pressing in Soccer
Pavanthi Sudasinghe (Simon Fraser University)

Tim Swartz

Simon Fraser University

Gary Parker

Simon Fraser University

Hashan Peiris

Simon Fraser University

Engage, Include, Empower: Modern Pedagogy for the Next Generation of Statisticians and Data Scientists

Room: MDCL 1010

15:30 - 16:00
Centring The Student: Engagement Strategies for Statistics Education
Mike Marin (The University of British Columbia)
16:00 - 16:30
Equitable and Informative Assessments
Diana Katherine Skrzydlo (University of Waterloo)
16:30 - 17:00
OERs in Action: Practical Strategies for Inclusive and Recognized Teaching Innovation
Tiffany A. Timbers (The University of British Columbia)

Explaining the Black Box: Theoretical and Practical Advances in Model Interpretability

Room: MDCL 1116

15:30 - 16:00
Interpretation of black-box predictive models
MAROUANE IL IDRISSI (Université du Québec à Montréal)
16:00 - 16:30
Towards Trustworthy Post-hoc Explanations of Machine Learning Models via Increased Alignment
Gabriel Laberge (Thales Group)

Functional Data Analysis Under Real-World Complexities

Room: MDCL 1309

15:30 - 16:00
Functional principal component analysis with informative observation times
Peijun Sang (University of Waterloo)

Dehan Kong

University of Toronto

Shu Yang

North Carolina State University
16:00 - 16:30
Robust Smoothing Splines with Discontinuities
Kelly Ramsay (York University)

Jairo Diaz-Rodriguez

York University

Hanna Jankowski

York University

New Frontiers in Actuarial Science

Room: MDCL 3024

15:30 - 15:45
Distributionally Robust Optimization Under Bayesian Ambiguity Sets
Zachary Van Oosten (University of Waterloo)

Ruodu Wang

University of Waterloo
15:45 - 16:00
Modelling the Impacts of Climate Change on Deaths Caused by Heat and Cold Waves with Age-period-cohort Models
Thomas Landry (UQAM)
16:00 - 16:15
Optimal Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit Markets
Liam Welsh (University of Toronto)

Sebastian Jaimungal

University of Toronto
16:15 - 16:30
Machine Learning Methods for Sensitivity Analysis of a Climate-Economic Model
Daniel M. Presta (McMaster University)

Matheus R. Grasselli

McMaster University

Michel Alexandre

Research Department, Central Bank of Brazil, Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP), and University of São Paulo
16:30 - 16:45
A New Zero-inflated model with Varying Exposures
Jiandong Ren (Western University)

Pouya Faroughi

University of Prince Edward Island

Shu Li

Western University
16:45 - 17:00
Socioeconomic and Regional Determinants of Inclusive Insurance Participation in Indonesia
Rika Fitriani (Western University)

Hyukjun Gweon

Western University

Shu Li

Western University

New Frontiers in Approximate Bayesian Inference, MCMC and Compositional Data Analysis

Room: MDCL 3022

15:30 - 15:45
Improving the Adaptive Gauss-Hermite Quadrature Approach for Approximate Bayesian Inference
Priyanka Priyanka (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)

Patrick Brown

University of Toronto

Sayantee Jana

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
15:45 - 16:00
Estimating MCMC convergence rates using common random number simulations
Sabrina Sixta (University of Toronto)
16:00 - 16:15
PANA-C: A Highly Parallel Algorithm for Annealed Monte Carlo Sampling
Renny Doig (Simon Fraser University)

Liangliang Wang

Simon Fraser University
16:15 - 16:30
Revisit Alpha-Folding Multivariate Normal Distribution on the Simplex: Profile-Likelihood and Bayesian Approaches
Xiaoke Qin (University of Manitoba)

Perspectives on Model Identifiability

Room: MDCL 1016

15:30 - 16:00
Interpretable Measures for Sensitivity and Identifiability in Models of Infectious Disease
Tarek Alrefae (University of Oxford)
16:00 - 16:30
Improving Power in Linear Models Through Temporal Causal Sequencing
Razvan G. Romanescu (University of Manitoba)

Inga Christianson

University of Manitoba

Kristin Reynolds

University of Manitoba
16:30 - 17:00
Nonidentifiability in Biostatistical Models: Implications for Research Ethics and Public Health
Philip J Schmidt (University of Waterloo)

Monica Emelko

University of Waterloo

Mary Thompson

University of Waterloo

Recent Advances in Dynamic Treatment Regime Inference

Room: MDCL 1008

15:30 - 16:00
Near-Equivalent Q-learning Policies for Dynamic Treatment Regimes
Sophia Yazzourh (McGill Biostatistics)
16:00 - 16:30
Conformal Prediction for Dynamic Treatment Regimes: Rethinking Value and Uncertainty
Dylan Spicker (University of Ottawa)
16:30 - 17:00
Estimating Optimal Adaptive Treatment Strategies with Time-to-event Outcomes under Missing at Random Event Times
Denis Talbot (Université Laval)

Florian Siaken

Université Laval

Mireille Schnitzer

Université de Montréal

Yan Liu

Université de Montréal

Caroline Diorio

Université Laval

Janie Coulombe

Université de Montréal

Arthur Chatton

Université de Montréal

Hermann Nabi

Université Laval

The State of the Art: Current Challenges and Future Directions for Surveys and Official Statistics

Room: MDCL 2230

15:30 - 17:00
The State of the Art: Current Challenges and Future Directions for Surveys and Official Statistics
Steve C. Matthews (Statistics Canada)

Mary Thompson

University of Waterloo

Patrick Sabourin

Bank of Canada

Steve Matthews

Statistics Canada

Time-To-Event Analysis in Health Data

Room: MDCL 1110

15:30 - 16:00
Debiasing Differentially Private Time-to-Event Data
Yi Xiong (State University of New York at Buffalo)
16:00 - 16:30
Logistic Regression of Event Time Data in Presence of Competing Risks
Haoxuan Zhou (Simon Fraser University)

Xiaoqiong.Joan Hu

Simon Fraser University

Yan Yuan

University of Alberta

Yi Xiong

University at Buffalo
16:30 - 17:00
Total Event Analysis in the Presence of Between-Subject Heterogeneity in Cardiovascular Trials with Composite Outcomes
Chinthanie Fernando Ramasundarahettige (Population Health Research Institute / McMaster University)